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[yubsie]

Well, let's see... the graduation was long and hot. There were eight kids with 95%+ GPAs. When I graduated, no one had EVER gotten that high. Oddly though, there wasn't a whole lot of scholarship money for them. Though some of them were going to Queen's. :p There were some really obnoxious guys who kept screaming and I was ready to hurt. :p The speaker was someone from MY graduating class, which was really surprising.

All through the ceremony, there was this recurring theme of trying to encourage the kids to stay in Riverview, stay in New Brunswick. No one seemed willing to acknowledge that a fair number of these kids are intending to go into science, and there JUST ISN'T WORK for them here. I had a long "discussion" with my mother about this. She thinks that they want people to start up work for them. But you can't just START UP a chemical company, it takes billions! I'm not in a field where entrepeneuring is FEASIBLE. She got really annoyed when I added that I didn't want my kids to have to go through the NB education system. Even though the only selling point she could come up with was French Immersion, which is what people are constantly trying to destroy! Amusingly, my grandmother was siding with me and my sister on the whole idea that one size fits all education and social promotion are a BAD IDEA. :p

Yesterday Gwenna and I hit the mall. I picked up a pair of sandals, because the one I have right now doesn't fit properly and do horrible things to my poor toes. I picked up the new Arrogant Worms CD for my father, which is a highly amusing bit of music. It has Canadaman. :p I bought a really cool shirt, because it was funky and only ten dollars. I finally picked up Betrayal, which is much Allstony goodness. :D And I bought the fabric for my River costume, which is terribly exciting. The overdress is getting made out of drapery fabric, because it was the most affordable sheer fabric in the colour I need. We ran into Doug on the bus ride back, which was great fun. He and Sammy are coming over tomorrow, yay!

After supper, I went over to Shannon's and introduced her to Firefly. She is very much addicted now, to the point of us losing track of time. :p

My sister tried to wake me up with the puppy this morning, but Topaz is too well trained not to go into bedrooms. :p

nukichan is evil and made me pick up the phone. I'm going over to her house this afternoon, so yay.

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[(Anonymous)]

Ah, yes, the great whine that "Our young people aren't staying!" followed by the silent "There's nothing to make them want to stay, of course, or make the city attractive to students or young professionals, but still...!"

I still love Moncton as much as ever, I'm sure you can tell.

[yubsie]

You'd think they'd make the connecton. ANd yet... :p

[seryan.livejournal.com]

Heh, sorry, that was me. I was wondering why you hadn't replied yet. I keep writing comments from work and forgetting to sign in.

[yubsie]

I was WONDERING who that was. I suspected it was you, since there wouldn't be that many other people talking about the joys of Moncton. :p

[squallhighwind.livejournal.com]

I think High School Grads are supposed to be hot by nature. It's like one last HS torture device. I seem to remember mine having every single door in the gym open and it was STILL like hades in there (but...truth be told, the doors were on one side of the gym and the ceremony was on the other >_<). Speaking of mine, I remember a good number of people getting 95% or higher. Not sure if it came to or passed 8, but it was a good number.

Yay for River!dress! Kit said she might have found some of the same material in a form that could be used for my Tsubasa!Syoaran cloak (although it's gonna need to be pretty darn thick if you ask me).

Hope you come back soon ;_;...I feel kinda lonely

Oh! Isn't my new Aquaman.EXE pic cute? ^_^

[yubsie]

It's not so much that there WERE that many as a comparison between how many there were THIS year versus the school's history.

What sort of material?

I'm coming back on the eight o'clock bus because Sam and Doug are coming over this afternoon.

And it's adorable. :p

[squallhighwind.livejournal.com]

Ahhh. I see.

It's that drapery stuff you were talkin about. I just hope its of a thicker variety though.

YAY! I guess I'll see you tomorrow then (the 8'o'clock gets in here at what? 9? That's too late for a good visit isn't it? although i could see you at the bus station now couldn't i?)

aquaman: yay! adorable! drip!

(he says that after every sentence. I think its something japanese that was untranslatable when they made the game here)

[yubsie]

I assume it's different. She probably has stuff for making regular drapes, the stuff I bought is for making a sheer underdrape. Because I needed sheer fabric. :p

Yeah, around nine. Meeting at the bus station would make me happy...

Adorable drip!

[chibifrieza.livejournal.com]

We have French Immersion... O_O

Yay, River costume! I would never, even at my ideal weight, be able to remotely pull off River, but that's okay. I can maybe be an anime character. A non-CLAMP anime character. ^_^'> The problem is that I don't want to have to substantially change anything about myself, which restricts me to people with glasses, long brown hair and no bangs. ;_;

Incidentally, my grad dress was made of table drapery. :P

[yubsie]

We have a fantastic French Immersion program. But people keep trying to move the start point from grade one to grade four. Because people like to blame the only thing that works for all the stuff that doesn't. :p

Heh, no one can be a CLAMP character by that logic. :p If you look at my assorted cosplay pictures, I forget to take my glasses off for half of them. :p Which is usually followed by "Umm... oops..." when I put the pictures on my computer. :p

Drapery dresses FTW! If it works in The Sound of Music, it can work for anything! :p