Highs and Lows
May. 18th, 2006 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phoenixastraeaOK, so today has played out like a rollercoaster ride! Today my coworkers took me out to a farewell luncheon at this great place called Aroma Cafe in Fontaine Research Park. Eight of us went and had a lovely lunch; I really felt appreciated. They ended up giving me a lovely picture frame with UVA engraved on it! It was a really special time and perfectly capped off the year. I then went to the Bookstore to pick up my cap, gown, and hood for the graduation festivities on Sunday. The hood looks really beautiful. I'm confused as to why they call it a hood, since its more of a drapery down the back of the gown. Also, its apparently university-wide policy that only the undergrads get to have tassels with the date on it! Lame! Just because we already graduated once doesn't mean that the second date doesn't mean anything! As I said, lame but I was feeling very accomplished when I walked out of there holding my third set of cap/gown wear.
So, I'm walking to the shuttle and I watch it leave. I basically miss it by 2 minutes. Thinking that I had only 20 mins or so to wait to the next one, I chill out and enjoy the lovely weather. Twenty minutes go by...then thirty....then fourty...than I'm waiting an entire hour for the next shuttle because we've already gone onto the summer schedule for my apartment complex. Awesome. I then go by to check my mail and I find the reason why I hate checking my mail. Its a pile of bills that I don't have the money to pay right now and a letter from the company that I literally *just* interviewed with. I'm thinking, 'This can't be good' but I open it and its the standard rejection letter. What's crazy about it is that the letter is dated May 9th, when I didn't even interview with them until the 15th! ZOMGWTFBBQ?! So I sent the chick an email asking just that...but obviously in better language.
So...right now I'm feeling bummed, simultaneously feeling ecstatic that I'm graduating with an MA and wondering what the hell it's for if I can't get a job. =^(
So, I'm walking to the shuttle and I watch it leave. I basically miss it by 2 minutes. Thinking that I had only 20 mins or so to wait to the next one, I chill out and enjoy the lovely weather. Twenty minutes go by...then thirty....then fourty...than I'm waiting an entire hour for the next shuttle because we've already gone onto the summer schedule for my apartment complex. Awesome. I then go by to check my mail and I find the reason why I hate checking my mail. Its a pile of bills that I don't have the money to pay right now and a letter from the company that I literally *just* interviewed with. I'm thinking, 'This can't be good' but I open it and its the standard rejection letter. What's crazy about it is that the letter is dated May 9th, when I didn't even interview with them until the 15th! ZOMGWTFBBQ?! So I sent the chick an email asking just that...but obviously in better language.
So...right now I'm feeling bummed, simultaneously feeling ecstatic that I'm graduating with an MA and wondering what the hell it's for if I can't get a job. =^(
