Spring and moving on

Just when we all thought that Spring forgot about Seattle - or really the entire Pacific Northwest - we're finally getting a little relief from the cold and rain.  My mom is coming next week and she literally told me she has to "unpack her winter clothes" because she's put them away for the summer already.  The summer that has, yes, begun everywhere else in this country except for the clouds that generally still cover Washington state.  


I finish school in literally four days.  Four.  
That's four days.


I can't tell you how grateful I am for a little bit of sunshine and a little bit of heat (and by heat, I mean breaking 50 degrees) as I enter this next week.  What a flurry of mixed-up-ness.  I am so tired - like a deep, embedded in my bones and soul kind of tired.  I can't wait for the end.  Literally am planning my nothingness for the day after my last day.  T'will be grand.  Yet, I'm sad and scared for it to be over too.  I don't know the world from any other lens than a student!  What will happen to me when I can't get discounts to movies or museums, and I can't use the excuse "I have to study" to get out of awkward situations.  Plus, my graduation is a little anti-climatic: I get my Masters on April 13th, but don't have a big, fancy ceremony until June.  But, I'm not complaining.  I get to be finished and that is a proud, glorious, and exciting thing.  


Now I just have to figure out what the hell I want to do with "M.A." tacked onto my name.  


For your information, if you call or e-mail me asking about my plans after graduation - in particular, my plans for employment - I have none.  The options that sound the best right now (in no particular order) are: florist, interior decorator, ice cream scooper (rekindle that flame from high school), dog/cat/gerbil walker, walker (as in, I get paid to go on walks), house sitter, babysitter (maximum two kids, but only one may be awake at a time), sitter (as in, I get paid to sit on my ass), eater (as in...yea).  I'll keep you posted.