Toastmaster K - The Blog!

This post is coming from a hotel room just outside of Indianapolis, Indiana.
I’m done!!! The ceremony was awesome and the post-ceremony dinner at Top of the Hub in Boston was also great! The next day was not as fun as I spent it packing up my stuff, going to the airport to rent a mini-van, and driving to New Jersey while exhausted.

On top of all of that yesterday, as we had been planning to for a long time now, Francys and I broke up. We decided that although we felt that we were great together, it didn’t make sense to do the long-distance dating things for the next three years or so. Especially with me being her first boyfriend and all. If we’re supposed to be together later on, things will work out that way. All that logical stuff aside, I still already miss her a ton and am looking forward to the next time I’ll be back at Olin (Oct 14-15 for Family/Alumni Weekend) when I can see her in person to hang out as friends.

Currently, I’m about a third of the way done with my cross-country trek to get my crap back to San Diego. In the last 28 hours, I’ve driven over 1000 miles already. I was at Sean Munson’s house in Jersey last night, and I will hopefully make the trek to Grant’s house in Oklahoma City tomorrow night. The goal is to make it back to San Diego on Sunday or Monday.

When I make it back to San Diego, I’ll be picking up my RX-8 on Tuesday!!!!

Alright, enough blogging for now. Time for some sleep so I can do the next leg of the trip tomorrow.

[tags] Olin College, Boston, San Diego, RX8, travel [/tags]

It’s been a while since I’ve last posted. In that span of time, I’ve finished a movie, ran a week of senior events, finished 3 classes, and prepared to pack up the last four years of my life.

The “premiere” for Yellow Lights went really well. We had somewhere between 150 and 200 people piled into the auditorium to watch the movie. We got a ton of applause at the end of the movie which made me very excited and happy about the prospects of this movie. We still have some fine-tuning and a layer of polish to add to is so that it will be ready for submission to film festivals starting with Sundance in the late summer. Although I’m definitely curious what the reaction will be from audiences who know nothing about Olin.
I’ve been starting to pack my room up and clean the stuff off my walls. It’s a slightly weird feeling, but it still feels like it hasn’t quite me yet that I’m going to be done with Olin. Maybe during the ceremony?? Maybe I just feel like Olin is such a part of me that I’m not actually losing it? Who knows?

On Monday, I’ll be packing up most of my room into a minivan and starting to drive across the country. I’ve never done a road trip of that extent before, so it will definitely be a cool experience. I’m not sure where I’m going to be staying after the first night yet though…

To the Classes of ‘07, ‘08, and ‘09, I have a lot of friends amongst your classes and I look forward to hearing how you guys make Olin even more of an awesome place in the future. Feel free to keep in touch with me. I’ll also be at campus every once in a while, and I plan to be at each of your graduations.

To the Class of 2006, you all are so amazing. I feel so lucky and privileged to have been a part of your class. It’s been great being one of your guys’ Senior Class Reps and I hope you’ve had a fun and enjoyable last week of events leading up to Commencement. I’ll be proud to walk down the aisle tomorrow with all of you and I definitely want to hear what you guys are up to!

My new email address will be kevin.tostado (at) alumni.olin.edu for those who want to stay in touch via email. I’ll be in San Diego for most of June and hopefully in Los Angeles/Hollywood after that.
[tags] Olin College, graduation, Yellow Lights [/tags]