After high school "people stop being polite and start getting real". I'm getting to be so grown up and such a young woman , but in some ways I must admit there is a piece of me that will always be a "toys r us kid". growing up means more responsibilities, new friends, possibly new love interests, and new careers to think of, but as Scarlet O'Hara said in Gone with the Wind, "I won't think about that today, I'll go crazy if I do, I'll think about that tomorrow , after all tomorrow is another day".
             There I was the year 2000 staring me right back in the face, a bittersweet moment, like putting a lemon in your mouth that has been coated with sugar. even the song from Mary Poppins, "Just a Spoon Full of Sugar Makes the Medicine Go Down," did not settle the nerves in my stomach. I had just picked up my attire for this affair, my cap and gown, but the only problem was that it was so gargantuan that I resembled Dopey from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves! although I was graduating from high school, I felt in some way transported back to my grade school days, having to relearn our ABC's to line up in alphabetical order. I was "M" as in magnificent, which I thought I was this very day, but for some reason the line was so unorganized that I had the Z's behind me. Here we are, the future generation of America, and we don't even remember our ABC's! Not much hope for America is there?
             The lines were as long as freight trains. as we lined up, we resembled something like a derailed train. while I was standing in line, I was praying like a heavenly devil that the announcer would pronounce my name correctly and not like some disease or a fine Italian dish.
             Graduation rehearsal had also been a disaster. It poured bucket on top of buckets the night before, which made the field all muddy. I again transformed into a heavenly devil in hopes that the so c...