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    <title>Reflections around the Class of 2026</title>
    <published>2026-05-01T16:38:54Z</published>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Today is the senior grad walk at our school. Seniors are going to go through a rehearsal graduation, and then they&amp;rsquo;re going to walk through the halls of all of the buildings. All of our classes are going to be in the hallways cheering them on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Couple of days ago, graduating students who were in my freshmen class started looking for their &amp;ldquo;freshmen letter&amp;rdquo; which I kind of did, but not really. It was optional, but this was also the last year we did blogs and then was an introduction post, so there are &lt;em&gt;those&lt;/em&gt; words of wisdom.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All around it&amp;rsquo;s just a heightened sense of nostalgia, looking back, and reflection.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Typically around this time of year my emotions are in overdrive. I&amp;rsquo;m so very angry all of the time. I don&amp;rsquo;t think I take it out on anyone, but my showers are longer and I&amp;rsquo;m seething with fake conversations in my head with people who have wronged me or people I care about or ideas I care about.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://alterin.dreamwidth.org/149720.html#cutid1"&gt;Four things that are pissing me off right now. Read more?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=alterin&amp;ditemid=149720" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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