| CRAZY weather 'round these parts. It snowed today on Snoqualmie pass, the Blue Mountains, and Pullman (right by Moscow, ID). Many people have said this already, but this whole "Global Warming" mania seems a bit of a crock. |
| After such a whirlwind of celebrating, we are all pooped! And Mom & Leese had Baby at night, so I'm sure they are even more pooped! Of course, we did take advantage of not having her here and played cards with Tad & Erin late into the night more than once. She did beautifully, but her nap schedule was definitely not consistent. So by the time everyone left yesterday, she crashed. We both did, actually. I walked around the apartment kind of in a daze the rest of the day, and Craig and I tried to get things somewhat back in order. Today she had her 9 month check-up, and is still ahead of schedule physically as well as developmentally. Being a college grad is weird. I always knew I would get my degree, but now that I'm done it just feels . . . weird. I guess what feels weird about it is that I don't feel any different - Tuesday is still bathroom day, and my routine is still the same, and yeah, nothing is really different at all. |
| The missionaries just left from having dinner with us, and Mom and Lisa will be arriving in about 2 hours. So with that in mind, I've had a pretty busy day - not to mention that Baby and I had an appointment at WIC this morning. After that appointment, I came home and got Carolyn down for her morning nap and dashed off to the laundromat before Craig had to be at work. Well, when I got there, I found two empty dryers, and empty dryers surrounding the ones that had our clothes, and empty dryers in the entire general vicinity. A woman there said that earlier she had seen an old man folding up a bunch of towels from those dryers but that he had gone. PANIC. Most of my garments, a few shirts, my favorite jeans, over half of Baby's clothes including ALL of her pajamas, of course some of Craig's clothes and garments . . . so I burst into tears and called Craig, then called Mom & Leese hoping they could pick up some G's for me if they hadn't yet left town. I caught them just as they were getting ready to leave, so they took some notes and headed over to Beehive. When I first left the laundromat, I called Tad to see if he had by any chance picked up our clothes when he closed it up last night. He was in a meeting, so I left a message. After Mom & Leese had taken down our sizes and left, He called to say that he didn't get our clothes last night, but that he would call his boss and see what he could find out. Turns out that his boss had emptied every dryer that had stuff in it earlier this morning because someone had left their stuff there for a few days, making several of the dryers unavailable for other customers. He had stashed all of it their back room, which was locked. So I ran to campus to get Craig's keys (in all of my freaking out I had locked mine in the car), then went to the laundromat where Tad met me and held Baby while I looked through the masses of laudry and sure enough, found or stuff. WHEW!!!!!! I can't remember the last time I felt so relieved. |
| Yesterday afternoon I went to the Registrar's Office to pick up my Honors tassel. They didn't have me on the list under Davenport OR Cannon. Hmmmmm. So she looked up my transcript, and told me my GPA wasn't quite there. I was pretty crushed because for some reason, I though I had a 3.6, which wasn't enough to graduate summa cum laude or magna cum laude, but very comfortably in cum laude. Turns out I have a 3.465 GPA. Right. Less than 4 tenths of a point shy. So, yeah, I was a bit deflated. Pretty sad, really. Of course my GPA in my major is better than that, but they are going off of my entire CBC transcript and my entire CWU transcript combined. So there will be no "cum laude" by my name in the program or on my diploma, but I take consolation in the fact that there are literally a handful of CWU alumni who can say that they taught a college level course as an undergrad, which I did. And as Craig pointed out, Carolyn is my honors. She truly is my greatest and proudest accomplishment. :) |
| As most of you know, I am graduating on Saturday. If you didn't receive an announcment, please don't take it as a slight - they are quite pricey so I was only able to buy 10. I am receiving my B.M in vocal performance, which I actually finished in March '06. I didn't apply for graduation then because I was still working on my music ed degree and didn't want to pay post-bac credits. Well, eventually I decided that there was no point in going even deeper into student loan debt in order to earn my education certificate that I don't intend to use any time soon and will expire in a few years. I was never excited about walking in the ceremony. I think graduation ceremonies are pretty boring, and it didn't feel to me like it had much of anything to do with my actual education. My senior recital was much more relevant to me - encompassing expressions of the instrument I had built, the musical knowledge I had gained, as well as the growth in my testimony. But it was really important to mom that she would be able to watch me graduate, so I said I'd be in the ceremony. She also helped me change my perspective on it when she brought up Baby Carolyn and how the pictures that will be taken that day of our little family and just her and I together will likely serve her in the future as she decides what to do with her life. I really am setting the standard that in the Cannon family, we believe in higher education and that Cannon women go to college (or beauty or culinary school, etc). So I began to see that it was important to do even though I was fine with my diploma just being mailed to me. Then I found out that DeLayna and I were going to be able to walk together, and that's when I started to get really excited. We both took detours with marriage and babies, and it's really cool to both of us that we get to walk together. It's interesting how many parallels we have in our lives, and it's always been that way. We both did the community college thing with emphasis in jazz. (She didn't go to CBC with me - she went to Edmonds Community College, where I attended jazz camp. Their pilot group is "Soundsation"). We both transferred to CWU with a huge upper hand in jazz and got immediately into VJ1, but had some make-up work to do in other areas which we both acheived, singing operatic roles as well as being section leaders in Chamber Choir. We experienced the all-encompassing passion for music that most majors feel, the stress of academic life, the uncertainty of single life, the intense desire for marriage and family. I remember there were times when we would talk about our dreams for the future and rub our empty wombs and mourn their emptiness. It was kind of a joke between us, but somewhat serious as well. We got to know eachother's families and became eachother's family away from family. We truly mourned with eachother and rejoiced with eachother. We got married less than a year apart, and had our daughters a littlle more than a year apart (15 mos). I coached her in her delivery, and she coached me in mine. So for us to walk in the same graduation ceremony is totally fitting and appropriate. Mom and Lisa are arriving tomorrow (Thursday), Dan & Jessica on Friday, and Dad Friday night into Seattle and then he will drive to E-burg Saturday morning. So I get to celebrate my graduation with them, as well as my birthday on Sunday. And I am always happy to have a reason to celebrate! I suppose I'm rather hobbit-like in that way. So yeah, I'm pretty excited. Now I just have to finishe getting ready for the festivities! |
