Up and Running

I went by the college yesterday to pick up my diploma. Talk about disappointed! I think it’s been printed on the cheapest cardstock they make and all the signatures are POOR photocopies. And it’s white- which really makes it look like something I printed on my home computer. And the college seal is slightly crooked. I’ve put it in my Dukes of Hazzard trapper-keeper folder, along with my other college diploma. I have no idea where my high school diploma is, but I remember it being much nicer than either of these. It was small and cute and it came in one of those fancy hard folders. These other two things are not suitable for framing. The one I have from the University of Southern Mississippi at least has an ‘honors’ seal on it, but it’s crinkled. I kept it between my mattresses for a couple of years. And the paper Southern used is at least an OFF white, so it doesn’t look like I picked it up at Kinkos.

I see my two crappy diplomas and I wonder what I’m going to do about it. I’m pretty sure I got honors status at Belhaven too, but those bastards don’t acknowledge it. I even called to ask my class rank, so I could add it to my resume if it was really high. My final GPA was a 3.97, so I might be the valedictorian or something. The lady at Belhaven told me that don’t caluculate class rank. WTF? I could have graduated with a 2.5 and, by Belhaven’s standards, it wouldn’t have made a difference.

The good thing is that I am finished.

Several people have asked if I’ll get a raise now that I have a Masters. Nope. And that sucks too. But the company paid around $6,500 of the bill, so I look at that kind of like getting a raise. But we’re about to get some really shitty health insurance and the cost of living has gone way up, so it kind of evens out. As a matter of fact, they may owe me…

It’s nice that a couple of people noticed that our blog wasn’t working, but really, what did you miss? Killer and I are both in blog slack mode. I’ll go ahead and tell you now, come back on Sunday. I’ll try to get something posted before the weekend’s over. As for Killer, you can count him out. He’s working on a mysterious special project that is totally un-blogish. He has sworn me to secrecy… and I’m nothing if not a trustworthy employee.

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