Done done done done, done done done, done done done

[Sung to Darth Vader's theme]
Done done done done, done done done, done done done
Done done done done, done done done, done done done
DONE done duh-duh-duh-duh, done done done duh-duh-duh-duh
Done done done done done, done done done, done done DOOOOONNNNNEEE!!

That's right! I am DONE! My paper is finished! That was my last assignment for graduate school! I graduate on Saturday! I AM DONE!!!!!!

It feels AMAZING to say that. I've worked my butt off for 19 years straight (from kindergarten-2 years of masters). Now, on Saturday, I will walk across that stage and receive my advanced degree. Well, technically I will receive an empty folder. My actual diploma will come later. But the point is I will GRADUATE with my masters. I am done!

This feels especially good considering my day yesterday. I took the day off work to finish reading about the Cuban Missile Crisis and write my 15 page paper. I'm finally ready to start writing it. And my computer starts freezing. So I restart it. It does the same thing. I'm freaking out. Luckily my parents are only 5 minutes away, so I went over there and wrote it. 16 pages including a bibliography. 11.5 font, 1 in margins, 1.5 spacing. Over 6,000 words. But that thing is FINISHED AND TURNED IN. So I am done with UMSL's museum studies program! And fingers crossed, that means I will be done FOREVER!

Now there is a chance that I will not in fact be done forever. If I do the STEP program with Natchez, I will have to be a student. That means taking being enrolled at least 1/2 time in an accredited program online. In exchange I'd get to be the museum tech at Natchez, which could lead to a full time job. I would prefer just having a job, cause I'm really sick of school. 19 YEARS STRAIGHT PEOPLE. If you count preschool, I've been doing school since I was 4. That's a LONG TIME. WITH NO BREAK. I'm ready to get into the real world. But if the STEP program is my way into the real world, I'll figure out how to get into an online masters program for historic preservation and do a 2nd masters.

Right now I'm just enjoying the fact that, at least for a while/hopefully the foreseeable future, I have no homework. No assignments. No school. I am DONE!

I worked hard these past 2 years and Saturday is the culmination of it. In the words of James Brown -

OOOOH I feel good, done nah nah nah nah nah nah,
I knew that I would hah, done nah nah nah nah nah nah
SO GOOD! done done
SO GOOD! done
I feel good! done done done done DONE!
HEY!