Happy Easter!

Christus resurrexit, alleluia!

Honestly, I love this day, because we get to sing all of my favorite Easter songs. Yesterday, during the Easter vigil mass, we got to sing Handel's Messiah with an organist accompanying us. We usually don't have an organist, even though we have an organ, so we were really happy the way it turned out. One of us recorded it, and it sounds professional. If he posts it online, I'll leave a link.

This morning, I had a problem finding something suitable to wear, so I pieced together all of the scarves from my collection which had easter egg colors, and pinned them around one of my plainer skirts. the result was a very brightly-colored, festive easter skirt. I'll take a picture of it later, before I remove the scarves. I pinned the scarves together five minutes before choir warmup, and I pinned the scarves to my skirt in the ten minutes before Mass began. For my last Easter at College, I felt I had to do something that people would remember.

Not that I'm an expert or anything. I had to leave my seat to fix the safety pins, because the scarves weren't all the same size, causing me to trip on it, and the weight of the scarves was pulling the skirt down...I basically had to pin my skirt to the shirt underneath my pullover in order to keep everything where I wanted it to be.

I managed to confuse my mother, who was wondering what on earth I was wearing as I walked up to receive the Eucharist, but she figured it out in the end.

Then the brunch afterwards was amazing. we had Quiche, Ham and Potatoes before desert, which was a buffet line of delicacies. They even had fresh, made-to-order crepes, courtesy of the Magdalen College kitchen crew. The centerpieces had white chocolate flowers sticking out of them, and my whole family was there.

But, honestly, even though I was happy-ecstatic really- to do all of this, I'm also glad that it is over, since I am looking forward to a good eight or ten hours of sleep tomorrow.

Next week, the college will set aside two days for quaestio discussions, in which we use the class times to discuss the senior Theses. Mine is entitled "Why Democracy fails". I know that many people may object to my argument, but that was intentional. Besides, it's kind of hard to discuss something if people are already in agreement about it. I want to hear why people think that Democracy can work, and why they object to something that goes against the political grain at the moment.

Aside from that, I will be on an extended leave of absence these next two weeks, because I am graduating on the first Saturday of May. Yikes. It still doesn't quite feel real, as if I'll wake up and discover that I'm just a freshman, and still have four awesome years left here. The staff and students are all so awesome that I hate to leave here!

But, I have things that I have to do, and it would be foolish of me to retake four years just because of how awesome they were. I could never afford it. If I did go back to school, it would probably be for art or animation, or teaching, or music, or different languages.
People keep asking me what I'm going to do after I graduate, and I have no solid answer. Is our future ever really that certain anyways? I haven't a clue. I'll most likely have to find a good-paying job to pay off my student loans before I consider anything else for a long time.

But I'm thinking of creating a bucket list, so that I have an idea of what I want to do after I finish paying off my loans-that is, if the economy hasn't totally crashed by then.

It is very likely that the next time you hear from me, I'll be a College graduate. Until two weeks from now~!