DeMizio's Journal

Now what...?

Freshman year came and went.

Sophomore year and Junior year, in a blur, came and went.

Senior year went.

Senior Week came and went...

Commencement came and went.

The question that I've been asking the most in the past couple of days is "Now what?" The diploma, spelled and annotated correctly, is sitting on the dining room table downstairs, waiting to be framed. I'm almost unpacked - although that probably won't be complete for a while.

My answers have pretty much been along the lines of "Get a job," (surprisingly not just from parents but from friends as well) and "Find a place to live." It's strange though, but until late August, I have nothing to do, nowhere to be. Just as I was getting used to the daily life at La Salle (ha!) I had to go and graduate.

Senior week was interesting at first, and then became more fun as the week progressed. I lost $20 in Atlantic City ($10 of my own, $10 of what we were given) on Monday, but had a great time with the people there. Tuesday was the cruise on the Spirit of Philadelphia. Fantastic time - great food, good friends, and some dancing. Day Done on Wednesday was all right - a good idea, but underattended and more sessions would have been nice. Thursday I got really sunburned at the Phillies Game, but had an awesome time anyway. Friday night was spent in Old City and Finnigan's Wake with my class (and the RD's Kristal, James, and Mike Imperato.)

I'll always remember the week for the random memories - Uno as a drinking game, Club Lounge, shots with James at Finnegan's, beer pong in the lounge (?!?!?!? ), talking with people on the Neumann porch...it was a really, really fun week.

Saturday's Baccalaureate Mass was another good time. Brother Gerry had written in an email earlier on that we'd probably get more out of the mass than the commencement ceremony itself, and that proved to be right, I think. I was really happy to be at one last mass with Fr. Bebe, who has been a friend for the past four years. I had never been at the Cathedral Basilica before, besides a quick visit on Good Friday. Beautiful church, and the Mass was very well done too.

The actual commencement ceremony was also very well done. It was a fitting conclusion to everything that my class accomplished over the past four years. I wound up sitting in the front row of the far left section of everyone on the field, with Steve Martin to my right, and Tom McAllister to my right, with Kevin and the other friends all around. We managed to keep things entertaining through the more boring parts of the ceremony. Pretty much the entire extended family was there, and we had a good time right after before everyone had to get going. Then my parents, sister and I went to dinner before venturing back to the hotel. I left town on Monday.

I'll post pictures up eventually. The film pictures came out better than my digital pics...and there are more of them.

I've been spending the past couple of days getting things in order. I got a cell phone yesterday, despite my earlier vows to never get one. Message me online or through email to get the number. demizio.com is still getting back to normal, and I lost a couple of posts, but the wonkiness should finally be ironed out.

Tomorrow I think I'm driving up to Philadelphia again to take a look at the probable place to live. Besides that, I'll probably drop by La Salle, and not sure what else. It should be a good time though.

Nothing but time in the next two months - nothing but time.

(things could be a lot worse. )