The News

I had originally planned to make this blog post a lenghty nostlgia-filled tribute to my four years at Holyoke Catholic. Of my failures and triumphs, of friends made and lessons learned. Unfortunately, I've been exceedingly busy, lazy, and/or starved for creativity for the past week and a half, and thus have waited till the last moment as always, and will end up doing a half-rate job. But, nevertheless, I will post.

First let me say to all my friends, thank you. It has been an honor and a privilege to spend this time with you. I wish we could stay together forever. Soon I will have posts to thank each one of you individually, but for now a group gratitude is all I have time for.

Next, I enjoyed Senior year immensely. I branched out more than ever, and was given a lot of responsibilties. I feel as far as relationships and extracurricular achievements go, I did very well. I feel a strong bond with everyone who was with me in those extracurricular endeavors. However, scholastically I did not do so well.

Which brings me to my next point. This may come as a shock to some of you, an inevitable conclusion to others: I will not be graduating with my class. I wish I had let you all know sooner, but I either didn't want pity or confusion, or I was too scared. I'm sorry. The only thing I feel bad about is not being there with you to share that day. Otherwise, I could care less. In all honesty, I've done my "Woe is me" crying bit already. I'm over and completely cool with it. But,

I would still like to attend. So, if any of you have any extra invitations, I'd be much obliged if you could throw one my way. (Except for Tony, I'd prefer if you handed one to me, otherwise I'd end up with it embedded in my forehead.) I realize this is short notice, but if you could ask Sr. Marlene at some point I would be forever grateful. (Don't say it's for me, though. If you do she may be disinclined to give one to ya. She and I don't really like each other.)

So, that's it for now. It's been a great year, guys, and I'll see you soon.