My graduation dilemma

Well, kiddo, here's my advice: take option number 2. This is pretty much what I did for my graduation and I still made gads of money from distant relatives and whatnot. Then again parties just aren't that big of a deal for me, especially ones celebrating something I've acheived, like graduating high school or turning a certain age. Sounds like you live in a different culture though, and, ultimately, you'll have to make the decision. Will you be a social outcast for the rest of your life if you don't have a party? Is your heart set on having one? Where are you planning on going to college next year?

3. Have the party at a later date, like 2 or 3 weeks after the actual graduation ceremony.

you mentioned that its important in your town...really? i mean, i can see what you mean, but are you sure thats just not the hype you experience when you graduate? sure, most kids do have it within a few weeks of graduation..but there were a bunch through july, and even a couple in really early august. and, even though it seems so late, july really isnt a bad time to have it.. especially since people will want to see everyone else at this point, so more people will come than you think.. you also dont have to worry about conflicting open houses and unneccesary rushing around. if you really want the party, then have it late.. dont compound the stress by rushing a party, and dont not have one. but, if the party is dispensible, then just take the money, or have the party. ..if it doesnt matter to you , you shouldnt have it.

another thing; it might also be good to take the money.. depending on an open house for money is like a lottery. .. if you have a lot of old friends, i.e. gramma will invite tons of people, or if you have a big, ancient-focused family, you could likely exceed the 250 by far.... but if your party is gonna be composed of mostly people your age, then i would take the money from your parents......its a gamble, really..people can be stingy or generous, so you could not reach the 250 or you could exceed it.. thats another thing to think about..

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Rents [/i]
[B]Well, kiddo, here's my advice: take option number 2. This is pretty much what I did for my graduation and I still made gads of money from distant relatives and whatnot. Then again parties just aren't that big of a deal for me, especially ones celebrating something I've acheived, like graduating high school or turning a certain age. Sounds like you live in a different culture though, and, ultimately, you'll have to make the decision. Will you be a social outcast for the rest of your life if you don't have a party? Is your heart set on having one? Where are you planning on going to college next year? [/B][/QUOTE]

I don't have my heart set on a party, particularly. But will it turn into one of those things you wished you'd done, like going to your senior prom? (my mother is 50 and still halfway regrets skipping hers). Also I don't know if I'll be an outcast because _no one I know has ever not had one_.

PS: I like the way you slyly slipped that last one in ...I'm going to college in Missouri.

Jane, baby, you [i]have[/i] to have a graduation party.
Here's a better plan: choose option number 2...take the money and tell your parents you aren't going to have a party. Then, one weekend, you throw a party behind their backs (in a park, on the beach, someone else's house, whatever).
Fuck invitations and all that. You need alcohol and flyers, and the people will take care of the rest. Just take the flyers to school and litter with them.

At least...that's what I'd do.

JUST GET DRUNK WITH SOME FRIENDS!!!! WOOO JUST GIVE'R JANYE JUST GIVE'R
in the great words of FUBAR
"Dean Murdoch: As it stands Plan B is to just keep on Given'r.
Farrel Mitchener: Giving it to her?
Dean Murdoch: No given'r
Farrel Mitchener: Can you maybe explain given'r? What exactly does that mean?
Dean Murdoch: Give'r. You just go out and you give'r. You keep on working hard.
Farrel Mitchener: Is that a plan?
Dean Murdoch: Yeah that's a plan right there. "

Ahh, I love you all. AC, honey, you know I could only have that party if you drove up to host it with me. That would so rock.

If I had a fucking car, I would.

Dude, that'd be one awesome car if you could drive from the center of the universe all the way to Nebraska. I'd come out just to see that car. And to see Jane, of course.

...wheres nebraska, is that the one to the far left of canada?

Nah, man, it's like almost in the middle of the U.S.

.......than what the hell was i thinking of, nebraska's the place with the snow and penguins! its canada's brother who was put up for adoption

ALASKA!!!!! OHHHH

hahaha, I could see how you might get 'em mixed up.

Nebraska is directly below North and South Dakota, which are directly south of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, I believe. I think that if we ever have a big cult reunion, NE would be the best place to have it (other than Seattle, home of Chuckishness) cause it's bascially the middle of everywhere. Party at Jane's!

uh, home of chuckishness is actually Portland, OR, which is a town that rocks and incredible amount.

Rents, isn't time your avatar put on a sweater or something?
I'm pretty sure he wouldn't want to be smelling his hands by now.

hahaha, I'd like to help him out, but I'm attached to him the way he is. I tried changing it earlier, but it just didn't work out. I didn't feel right and I got a negative response from the Cult. I'm sticking with this bad boy, through thick and thin, hot and cold, stinky pits and all.

Well, fuck, Rents. Dang. I knew that. I guess I was just thinking Seattle cause that's where you're from.

No worries. Seattle's a cool place too, lots of famous people are from here. Personally, though, I'd rather live in Portland. There's just something about it. I thoroughly enjoy that place.

Seattle so rocks, although I have never been outside the airport (nice airport though). I once wrote a short story about the grunge scene. I was proud of it, though it was highly inaccurate and had little-to-no continuity.

Haha, still cool though. Gee whiz, if you thought the airport was cool, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Pike's Place is a must see, especially the famous, or infamous if you'd rather, fish throwers. Always a good time. Next time you're in the area, you let me know. I'll show you around town. Same goes for Portland. And the rest of you crazy kids, too.

is it your idea or your parents' idea to have the party? because if it's their idea, even if you know it won't be as nice as your brothers', let them have it. graduation is more for your parents than for you anyway.

if having the party was your idea, then i'd take option no. 2.

Speaking of whores, what's with those telemarketers? I'd sooner be a prostitute.
I'm referring to your Avatard, by the way, Gooch. Not your grandmother.

Tee hee.

Did any of this help, Jane? I know it's been less than a day since the question was originally posed, but it's nearing the bottom of the page, so if you haven't made a decision yet, all I'm really trying to say is PARTY THREAD BACK AT THE TOP!

yeah i really want to know if i turned jane's life around...

Wow. Printed invitations? Jeepers. Down here we have a slightly differnt tradition.

Throughout all of your tertiary education you consistantly go to either the uni bar, or just to full-blown drunken keggers. So the drunken rampage when you graduate is not much of a step up from the ones when you were mid-exams or the ones even before that, and certainly doesn't involve printed invitations. Oh, and it has [i]nothing[/i] to do with your parents, unless your parents (as sometimes happens) are the full-blown raging kegger types.

Throw an "Australian" party, Jane.

But then, if American beer is anything like you said it is, you may need a few extra kegs.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by insomnomaniac [/i]
[B]yeah i really want to know if i turned jane's life around... [/B][/QUOTE]

Well, not about this, but since you gave me the talking-to about josh, I tried to punch him in the face on Wednesday (It didn't work though).

Well...just so everyone knows, I am most likely going to take the stupid money and run. Cause I am materialistic like that.

But I refuse to let the thread die until Will chimes in.

[i]Where is Tup?[/i]

going to college in the show me state . . . .well, you had better take option 2 and then wait for more cash to come from friends and relatives and then invoke option three. you're gonna need a party to soften the blow of schooling in missouri.

Umm...cause they're paying for it? And the college is nice?

ok. those are really good reasons, but still, honey, plan on being bored to tears in the show me state unless you alter your worldview with alcohol, drugs and sex.

haha, doesn't that go for most schools? I mean, Missouri perhaps especially, but college opens up all sorts of new doors into strange new worlds.

and, sometimes, it lands you in an unholy land, like wall street.

Dude, it took me so many years to turn into the prissy little virgin that I am now, I don't want to have go through the personality revamping AGAIN.

did you actually think you weren't going to have to reinvent yourself when you go to college? i reinvent myself every three or four years. and, i'm 34 and well beyond college. back then i reinvented myself every week. prepare for the worst. plan for the best.

[QUOTE]Well, not about this, but since you gave me the talking-to about josh, I tried to punch him in the face on Wednesday (It didn't work though).[/QUOTE]

oh, my.

Why didn't it work? Did you miss? Forgotten how to punch? Or had you forgotten which side of his body was his face?

Maybe he's a lot bigger than me, and he has the special ability to grab my wrists and hold my face back while I swing. And it was night. And we were in a van. And there were like 8 other people there. It was pretty fucked up.

I'm trying to visualize that, but my mind keeps on interjecting with porn groove and turning it into a uniquely plotted porno.

You know what that means...

Time to just sit back and let the movie run it's course...

*Closes eyes*

Ahhh

Oh my. Well, I got nothing to say except.... *funky porn guitar sound* Bow chicka bow WOWWWWWWW!!! Wokka chikka wokka chikka bow wow!!!

rents, if only you could create wav files for us to listen to. bow chikka bowwwwow!

Get all of your heads out of the gutters. It was in no way pornographic. At all. Dang you.

Oh my gosh! It was not! Pornographic! Okay! Please explain to me how some really wimpy short girl trying to hit you in the face and failing is in any way pornographic. I truly do not understand this.

Shit. Shit. This is just getting worse and worse.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by framstedt [/i]
[B]rents, if only you could create wav files for us to listen to. bow chikka bowwwwow! [/B][/QUOTE]
If only, man. If only.