Wow I had a crazy weekend. Graduation was Saturday night, so I met some friends from h.s. and we went to Chili's and graduation, just like we did last year. I saw so many people I graduated with there, it felt like I was graduating all over again. Everyone said I talk a lot more now, so that makes me very happy. After that I was requested to accompany a friend to a party hosted by the older brother of some guy I was sort of friends with in ninth grade. Having nothing else to do and after some subtle pleading, I agreed to go. Hey, what are friends for? It was pretty weird because it was mostly guys who were older than us and people that I hadn't talked to since 9th grade. It turned out not to be so bad, everyone was really nice and we ended up staying until 4 A.M., which is later than I ever stayed out in college. I never though I'd see a day when I stayed out that long with friends here!

Of course there was the annual family trip to visit my mom's family in the country on Memorial Day. That never passes without something weird happening. Once my dad got shocked by an electric fence, another time we had to climb up the hill past the creeks, barbed wire, and chickens, and I'll never forget the time I got attacked by the biggest, scariest, angriest turkey I've ever seen in my life. My mom's brother lives an hour away out in the land where everyone lives in trailors or 1930's two story farmhouses with peeling white paint, and some mixture of cows, horses, goats, chickens, geese, and too many dogs and cats to count. And of course the random turkey that gets pissed off and chases anything that crosses its path. We always take flowers up to this very small cemetary on the top of a hill where my grandparents that I never knew are buried, and we always have to ride in the back of my uncle's truck because it's a pretty rough path up the hill. Since it was POURING the rain down that day, me, my dad, and my cousin had to ride in lawn chairs with an oversized tarp over our heads on the back of my uncle's gigantic truck down a narrow road, through creeks and electric fences, and up the rocky hill. Only in West Virginia would you see people riding on the back of a pickup truck sitting in lawn chairs in the rain. I had to laugh.

It hasn't gone a day without rain or thunderstorms in two weeks and the power was off for four hours today. It's beginning to be like Ohio. It's annoying. Know what else is annoying? Being as lazy and unmotivated as me. I've been home 3 weeks and haven't done anything. I think I'm getting stupider.