Diary of Dan Frank

Graduation commencement is this Sunday. Just another reminder of how close I am to being done with college! A part of me wishes I had made the decision to walk in the commencement ceremony, however another part of me thinks I made the right decision. I really would not feel right walking in the ceremony without my mother being there.

The workload for this semester is coming to an end. All I have left is one paper, corrections for my senior paper, my acting scene, and three finals. I can't believe I am going to be done after that. I have worked hard for the last 5 years to get to where I am right now and it all seems really anti-climatic. I guess that is why this all just does not seem real.

Soon all the parties will begin for Tony's birthday, Christmas, my graduation, and finally my going away party…which by the way I am thinking I will no longer have. I have tried to plan a few different things and when I tell some of the people I really want to come from my work, they tell me that what I have planned is too far away from them so they will not be going. I don't know why I am so worried about it; if they were really my friends wouldn't the distance not make a difference?

Anyway I think the goodbye party, if I have one will be on Thursday December 29. That is my last day of work. I have requested to work a lunch shift that night, and if I do get scheduled as soon as I am done working I will be sitting my fat ass down at the bar for a few beverages. One of which will definitely be a bottle of sparkling wine, but I will need some help finishing that one so who wants to join me? Of course I don't want to spend the entire night at Bonfire so at some point I think I will have to make my way to a different bar.

I will be moving on January 1st, 2006. My Uncle, whose house I will be living in, will be driving me from Minneapolis to my new home in Anaheim Hills, California; we hope to take at least 2 days to get there.

As of right now I do not have a job waiting for me in California. I figured it would be better to move down there and then look because sometimes companies don't like to hire out-of-state employees because they then have to pay for their moving expenses. I currently have a few ideas of what I would like to do once I get down there. The first idea is to try and gain employment with something that is involved with American Sign Language and the Deaf Community in California; the other is to perhaps try my hand in the acting and modeling field. I figure everyone else goes to California to pursue that dream so it is going to be difficult to gain employment in that area, but I can always work with Deaf Californians while I pursue the dream.