Time Flies in the "Real World"

This past Saturday I attended my roommate Wendy’s graduation from WOU. I remember looking her in the face a year ago in my red-robed body under a bobby-pinned cap and saying “I can’t wait for next year when our roles are reversed” as I stressed about my own graduation day. That reversal I had wished for so badly happened all too fast.

It was a mere year ago I had been crossing the stage with high hopes of the coming year, thinking I’d be living by myself in a Monmouth apartment for the first time ever and working either a 9-5 salary job or in a cute coffee shop somewhere. None of that happened. I ended up being desperately unemployed for what felt like an eternity but in reality was only three months, living in an Independence house with three other girls, and working 3/4 time at a daycare in Corvallis. Funny how things work out. It’s been a challenging year and a fantastic year all rolled into one. 

Also, props to my longtime roommate Wendy for graduating with a double major in Spanish & Social Science from the Honors program with Magna Cum Laude status. And she’s already temporarily employed for the moment before going off to Spain in September to teach English as a Fulbright scholar. No torturous months of unemployment for her, way to go WB. And an additional props to my old roommate Robin who also graduated on Saturday and is working with Wendy at the temporary job, doing a summer internship, and getting married in the Fall. Go graduates. You ladies rock.