Here I most certainly am..

So here I sit, after a week full of parties, and cards, and cupcakes in congratulations for this amazing achievement that I have completed over the course of 4 years. The journey of this achievement is over. It ended when I bubbled in the small encircled "D" on question number 80 of my AZ/American Government Final. But it doesn't feel over. It isn't summer time yet. I'll be back in my desk, 2nd row from the right and 2 chairs back chatting it up with Krista in 7th hour anatomy on Monday. Nothing has changed, life is good, right?

Wrong.

Everything has changed. I won't be back on Monday to argue with my math teacher. I won't laugh at a Moulder-ism next week. I won't. 

However, despite my knowledge of this concept, my mind continues to trick me into believing that I WILL. 

Why???

I have been waiting so long to get OUT of that place...now I am...and all I can see in my head is reading yet another obscure poem in my obscure AP English class after returning from a relaxing weekend. I'm happy to be done

 with it all really..the drama. the stress. the work. the monotony. I suppose it is a package deal...like the what goes up must come down principle. Lose the downs, and lose the ups.

All I can say is that I came and went faster than I could have ever anticipated. 

"Freshmen hold on, 

it's only four years long, then its gone...

...be happy while you're here, oh

be cool, be hard, be weird

It's just four years...."

-Jon McLaughlin

It was only four years. Now their gone. I was happy. I was weird. But it was just four short  years.