On the following friday, us seniors had to show up to get our Caps n' Gowns and to take care of our obligations. I went confidently in to the office and gave them the $65 that they say I owed them for Losing a book that I happened to turn in. I got my recpt and headed for the book depository. I got in line, Adam H. Came and joined me. We waited and waited. It went slowly. They hurded all of us seniors in to the Cafeteria to anounce to us things that almost no one could hear. We got back in line then realized we were to head in to the Gym. We were getting the class photo taken. Our photograpeher was named Skip Courier. That name sounds as fake as Gusty Sunderman IMHO. Any how we took a paneramic photo of a sort that only 14 shcools in the nation take, with cameras made by NASA engineers. Hooray. So I got back in line after the photos. I was with Dmitry. We were in line a LONG time. We were right up by where we go to get in, and they came by with the Cap n' Gowns saying "You'll have to pick these up next week." We went in and turned in our "I Payed for my stupid crap" recepts. Dmetry kept a book so he had to return that later. I got my slip. I ran in to Adam (Jaskie) and we all went back to my house and hung out for a while.

Next was rehersal for graduation. They had us in the Chrisler Center, the U of M basketball arena. First everyone is just sitting up in the stands. They then call us to the floor where we sit in our seats. Mr. Hayward misprounounced my name because... He isn't very smart I guess. Now, those of you who know me, know that my name is almost always first alphabetically. I was, of course, first to graduate. So they're doing rehersal and they weren't explicit on WHERE I was supposed to wait, only that I was supposed to wait. So I pretended to get my diploma and moved forward. Mr. Hayword says "Woah! Wait, what did he do wrong?" and the whole senior class broke up. I went back and did it right and then I got applause.

Next was the actual graduation. The only big thing I that went wrong is I forgot to switch my tassel until I sat down. Good Ol' Jaskie came to see me there too heh. There were 6000 or so people there in attendance, we had 541 seniors graduating. There was a lot of energy in the room. I noticed as I sat down and looked in my program that I was graduating with honors, that meant I got to stand up when Mr. Caudle asked us honors people to stand up.

Then there was the senior party. One word: Amazing. Pioneer didn't feel at all like Pioneer. Outside, there was a huge sign, it was in tin foil and purple as our school colors are purple and white. I saw Hasmik on the way in and said hello to her. I also ran in to a girl that I only had spoken to once. I spoke to her for a while then started moving on. I saw Almost all of my friends from Pioneer high there. I spent a lot of time there talking to Dan, and hanging around with other people. There were so many amazing things there. There was, of course, our pool which was open for about 2 hours, I didn't swim in it though. They Transformed the Gym in to a game zone. There was a restriced socker areana, that was pretty cool. There was a velcro suit obstical course, I did that and it was a lot harder than I thought it would be. My suit started comming off and I got stuck going over one of the hill things. There were some sumo suits, so that people who aren't sumo wrestlers could sumo wrestle like a real sumo guy. There was a lazer tag thing that was inflated. I thought it would be kind of hokey, but it was actually really fun. There was also Gladiator type thing. It was a big inflatable thing with a little unstable platform in the center. You're supposed to play a king of the hill type game up there. I fought Dan who gave me plenty of Head Shots. The attendant there said "No head shots ladies." By this time I had gotten about 9 to the head, I had given Dan like 3. We each got one or two more in after the attendant told us that rule.

Moving along they made the book depository a bar that served these fruit flavors, like lime or cherry in either seltzer water or milk. Then there was a fruit smoothy stand outside of the cafeteria. Inside the Cafeteria there was Domino's Pizza and Gambling! The games were roulette, black jack, and a dice game. The dice game was High roll, Low roll. I thought it was craps so I didn't play since I don't really know the rules of craps. I did better than the Odds in roulette, and I was doing well in blackjack, but I couldn't add fast enough. I busted with an Ace, yielding me a 12 and I *didn't* hit. Smart move, eh? You started with 40 chips and gambled with chips. Some people gave me some chips so I ended up with about 60 as I didn't gamble that long. I got in on the last drawing. What did I win? A $100 gift certificate to a local store! I was shocked to say the least. I still need to claim it. They ended the night with a hypmatist. The guy's act was really funny. I have to admit I did get bored during part of it though... I took photos of everyone and when I develop them, I will put them up on the site...

Next, I went to hang out with Jenny after her Prom. We went out and ate late at night to the Ram's Horn, an all night restarunt. That was fun, but her other friends had to go home. I was told that I would indeed be staying up all night so I prepared as such. We went down to her basement and were talking and stuff. She kinda fell asleep and I turned on Art Bell around 4:40AM I was able to get it until 6:00. Some time around 3:00 we walked to the closest 7-11, boy do I like 7-11's. We went out in the morning and went to Bob Evan's for breakfast. When we got back to her house, I found out that Jess and RJ were asleep, and they were the ones who were to come and get me. So, I watched Independance Day, and told Jenny to go to sleep since she had Work, not that that was hard for her, and not that she slept well... After the movie, she had to see a doctor and I had to go too since I would be home alone. So I went there and waited in the waiting room. After being up for about 24 hours, a waiting room is even worse than it normally is. Then we left and she had to go to work, so I went there and waited for her to come back. She had my back pack at her house. I got home at 5:30 or so. I went to bed after being up for 36 hours, my voice suffered becuase of the pollen that was in the air though and I had a rasp to my voice for a few days. By the end of that night though, I really couldn't talk.

Senior Parties. I got invited to four of them. The first was Adam's a few weeks ago. It was pretty neat, and I knew a few people there. I also played some Dance Dance Revolution. It's a cool game albeit a bit hard to pick up for me.

Next Chronologically was mine. I handed out invites at the All Night Party and told some people that I knew. We were to watch Tomb Raider. Only 4 people, inlcuding me, showed up. We watched Tomb raider, and decided that we would go out for pizza. We went to JJ's in Ypsi which was closed at 6PM on a saturday. bummer. So we went to down town Ann Arbor, and played at Pete's Pinball with the $30 in quarters that I had. When those expired, we went to NYPD, New York Pizza Delivery. The pizza was good.

The other three were on the same day. First was Joy's. She lives only about a block and a half away from me as it turns out. It was nice talking to her, I spent a long time talking to her relative or someone like that. That was cool. I had some lemonaide with was really good. She has a nice family.

Next was Dan's. As a test of the size of Pioneer, we share no friends in common. I didn't know any one there except for him. That didn't stop me from enjoying food and him and his band playing music. He was drumming and durning one part he got a very intense look on his face while looking over to the side. It looked like he was very intent on a hamburger that he had over there. He was playing for that burger with all his might!

Thirdly was Chrises. I knew people there too. Mostly from my computer scinece class, and I had met his Girl Friend at Prom. We went outside and played Mafia which is a neat game. I learned it there. I also enjoyed the beverages. At one table Chirs was on a team with his GF against Wei and Chris's little brother. They were playing a game where the goal of the game is to use basic math operations to make all the numbers add up to 24. I enjoyed some Ribs, and then left.

Next was the Cedar Point trip with my seminary Class. This was postponed from earlier on. I got up a few minutes before Sister D. Was supposed to be there to pick me up. I got ready FAST as heck. We drove to cedar point and Perry and my discusion on math theory, devision by zero for most of it, seemed to bother a lot of people. Oh well hehehe. Perry, I must say, have some nice music tastes, he has some verried music, and I like that. We got there, and the groups that formed were pretty much what you'd expect. I was with Perry and Brian. First we went to the Mantis, which is a standing ride. It was fun since I could stay on my toes. That bicycle seat didn't get a chance to Rack me. After that we took out a morgage and got some hot dogs. I rand in to Pat there which was rather a shock. We also rode the rapter, a suspended leggs dangling coaster, the Gemini, a wonden coaster about 10 or so times total, the Magnum, a 210 foot coaster. At the CorkScrew they took away my bottle of water which made me mad. We rode Millenium Force which is AWESOME. It's 310' and goes 93 MPh. The giant inflatable snoopy tried to instigate a fight with brian, or so he said. That snoopy is by the ball booth where we made friends with the attendant Eric. This little girl came up and said "Have you seen my daddy?" and then went on and turned around and said "I can't find my daddy, can somebody help me?" and wen ton her way. So Perry went and chased her and we talked to Eric some more. I told him I would be there to see him. At the Demon drop, Juliana saw me and said hello and I introduced her, but she was about to go, so I said good bye. I had saw Pat one other time I was talking about stagering, so I was stagering. He though I was trying to sneak up on him. We rode the Gondola thinggy a couple of times and that was really fun. Well, the first time I was scared. We were all scared. The second and third time we had fun because we were yelling "Hello" or "Hi" to cars comming the other way. We got varried responces. The "Huh? Hello"s the "Hi!!!" back, the "what?!?" looks, the hey-back-nod, and one girl flicked us off. What a jerk. On the way out of the park, we saw Pat just standing there talking to his group. I said "Hey Brian, go up and give Pat a hug" since Brian knew Pat. Brian declined, so I did it. He was freaked out! He then admitted that it was a good one. heh. In disaster transport these little girls were anoyed at us or something. I made sure to ask them if they wished to play telephone and they declined. On the way home, we really did play telephone, and it was indeed fun. We also played mafia which I learned at Chris's party.