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GRADUATION PICTURES!!

it was super--rebecca decided to surprise me and brought delia, my nanny who raised me from 2 months to 11 years of age, to my gradutation.  i saw her just as i was getting ready to march and it was absolutely jaw-dropping!  so exciting.  rebecca gave me the most awesome gift ever that only i would think was awesome: a Petit Richard french dictionary!!  a real one--all french.  i was sooo happy with it, since i will be using it alot if i'm a french minor, and i looked like such a dork, but i don't care cuz it was awesome.  delia gave me a gift certificate to macy's, which i will be using for my much-needed college clothes, and a framed picture of herself in her pink 50th birthday dress.  it was so cute!  she had a cinquenteanera!

afterwards, we went to this really cool restaurant called cuba libre, which was great.  good food, beautiful decor.  unfortunately they all had to drive back to maryland tonight, but it was a good time.  i wore my cap to dinner, though we didn't have to wear it to graduation, and random people congratulated me.  i wore it in the hopes that i might get a free dessert out of it, but all i got was a candle.  oh well, you take what you can get.  all in all it was a beautiful day, and i'll miss merion, but i'm looking forward to beginning anew next year.

sarai and me, together for another 4 years!

niko, eva, and me--the mmmt lunch crowd

mami and me

with the torres family

papi and me in front of school

how official-looking!

delia and me

charles, abby, and me

lol--my parents wanted a picture of me looking pious

the sister reg fan club

just like old times!

delia, abby, me, rebecca

with charles and abby..and charles' shirt that i loved b/c it's so euro!

one last pic with delia

rebecca looking very serious

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alright..graduation is tomorrow

wow, totally weird.  my dad is in town right now, and my parents have been surprisingly civil to one another.  my dad fixed the air conditioner in the dining room for us, which was apparently suffering from a large block of ice that had formed on the dirty filter.  i hadn't figured it out because i guess my man-of-the-house powers are not that far developed, though i am pretty damn good at building stuff...and grilling.

we went to dinner last night at this place right around the corner that we had never been to.  we had always passed it by because it's a bar and we didn't realize that it is also a good restaurant.  it was so secret and cool; i felt like i was in harry potter and had just entered diagon alley or something.  afterwards we came home and drank and chatted before my dad went to bed and my mom and i watched six feet under, though she fell asleep within the first 10 minutes.  i'm so excited though--we have now reached the point where we left off a couple years ago when we started watching the series.  you see, we had started on season 2 and then stopped at the end of the season just as nate goes in for brain surgery.  when we decided to take the show up again, i insisted on starting from the beginning, so we did and we ended up rewatching some episodes, which was fine.  but now we get venture into all new episodes!!  and nate is my love--he's just so damn cute!  i know he's gonna make it through the brain surgery, but i'm kinda hoping he doesnt get back with brenda because she's a sex-addict who cheats on him and he deserves better.  i kinda hope he gets with linda, his baby momma, even though she's a weird vegan.  ruth needs to stop fucking the russian because he's rude and self-involved.  keith needs anger management.  ehh, i could sit here and comment on the fates of each character, but i won't bore all of you who do not have the pleasure of watching the show.

so tomorrow is graduation and rebecca and her family are driving up from maryland to come to it..i'm so happy!!  the 7 of us are going out to dinner afterwards, we don't know where yet and haven't made any reservation (yikes), and then they're driving back home that night for school the next day.  c'est dommage.  then i'm chillin with my dad till wednesday when we fly to PR.  friday we fly from there to the canaries, and there we remain till july 1st when we go to madrid.

i'll post pictures on my facebook

i'm at work right now, so maybe i better go...

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okay...today:

well, i was awoken from my slumber at 2 am when my phone rang.  answering it groggily, i found that i had been drunk-dialed by none other than anthony divito.  here's how it went down:

me: hello?

him: raquel?

me: anthony??

him: raquel!!  i think i'm drunk *laughs*

me: um..yea, it sounds like you are

him: oh no, did i wake you?  haha, i'm sorry

me: it's okay

him: haha, i'll just call you tomorrow, probably from work..i always call you from work

me: yea, you sure do, anthony.  okay then, have fun

him: i love you raquel!  you're like my best friend!!

me: that's very nice, anthony.  bye!

him: okay, bye!

LOL!!  it was so weird.  i woke up later (when it was a decent time) laughing about it.  when we spoke today it turns out he had no memory of what he said to me or to the three other people he called, only the call log on his phone to prove what he had done.  crazy.

anyway, today i went shopping with my mother *faraway shriek*  not a pleasant experience, lemme tell you.  okay, i hate shopping in general, which prompts my mom to call me a disappointment as a daughter.  i only went because i needed to get a haircut and buy a few things.  it turned out that my haircut place was closed GGGGRRR, so i still have this awful mop of hair on my head that i'm sick to death of.  but a few good things did come of it: i got my ugly-ass graduation shoes at payless for 17 bucks..not a bad deal.  also, i found THE BRA OF MY DREAMS!!  at victoria's secret.  it's always really intimidating going in there b/c it's swarming with saleswomen who want to measure your bust.  i'm pretty sure i know my own bra size!!  anyway, i finally caved and told them what i was looking for and was led to the most perfect bra ever.  fucking expensive, but versatile and built to last.  love it!  i also got tank tops on sale at wet seal.

at this point, i met up with my mother in one of the department stores.  she bought me a purse, which i needed, but then began the ritual that we always go through of her trying to buy me stuff i don't want.  in today's episode her catch-phrase was "but it's lauren!"  and my response was "but it's ugly!"  when she set her sights on this demin blazer that was supposedly on sale, she said we wouldn't leave until i tried it on.  not wanting to cause a scene, i tried it on quickly but promptly took it off when she started loudly saying how great it was and the old saleswomen got in on the act with "if i looked like you...!"  AAAAAHHHHHH!!  at this point i just wanted to leave, but she insisted on buying it. then, as we're finally walking out, my shoe breaks (i've been wearing this pair for two years) and we fight for ten minutes about buying shoes.  i practically drag her out of the store and all the way across the mall to where we parked.  i was pissy the whole ride home.

ahh..mother-daughter bonding at it's best.

off to continue the saga of harry potter...

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how much do i love my friends??

A WHOLE FUCKING LOT

oh danielle and jessie--your bickering over me makes my heart warm

so everyone:

it appears that people care about me!  i was thinking before that the 6 tickets they allow you for graduation was a really large number, seeing as i didn't expect it to be anyone but my parents coming.  well..i stand corrected!  rebecca called yesterday and said that her family wants to come too.  yay!!  i mean, i feel bad for them having to sit through the incredibly boring ceremony, but it'll be considerably less awkward at dinner!  sleeping arrangements will be interesting though..there are 4 of them, 3 of us.  but i don't care!!  the more the merrier!

also, i was going to wear the little blue over-your-head thing the wrong side forward, but i caught the mistake when looking at the portraits in the hallway of past classes.  whew!  that would have been embarassing.

today we had out last mass as a whole school.  i got to sing Amor de Dios, which i have been looking forward to all year!  i though the liturgy club was gonna sing the verses with me, but i didn't hear anyone--even on the english verse.  oh well--i got an accidental cantor!

now i have the next 5 days off before the senior assembly on wednesday.  what am i gonna do for 5 days??  i'm finally reading harry potter 6, and even though it's HUGE i don't think it'll take me five days if all i'm doing is reading.  i guess i could go buy ugly white shoes and white stockings for graduation, or i could get stuff for spain.  of course i dont have money...that could be a problem

okay, those are most of the mundane details of my life right now.  i'm really making an effort not to let my xanga go to complete neglect in light of my mistress--facebook

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so today was the last day of classes...

it's so weird to think about it!!  now i just have to go in for my 2 exams and graduation/baccalaureate practices.  on wednesday i also have to go in super early for liturgy club to practice for baccalaureate, and on thursday we have a Be Our Guest rehearsal for the Cappies gala.  weird.  i kinda don't want to do it though--we have to shorten the number to fit into the 4 minute time frame and i'm afraid that they'll cut my verse, which would totally suck.  i really hope we get the costumes back too.

sorry this entry sucks.  i'm a little out of practice since i've been cheating with facebook, but xanga looked very lonely so i thought i would update.

what has the world come to??

when did i become a xanga slacker??!!