Graduation Is My Favorite Holiday

May 27, 2008 12:03

I love graduations. I love them like other people love Christmas and Hannukah and Thanksgiving and Halloween. Let them eat turkey, I say: for me, it's college graduation. An opportunity to wear my polyester-but-velvet-looking Berkeley blue robes and find the Altoids I'd thoughtfully left in the pocket the year before. An opportunity to live for ( Read more... )

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dac_in_sf May 28 2008, 04:58:11 UTC
1) Yay to you and the other (much beloved) Wes grad getting your Super Fancy Award!!!!

2) I too love Commencement. I had a stellar crop of undergrads this year, especially, and I loved them all coming back to the Department reception all jazzed from the stadium ceremony....where apparently they had (appropriately) heckled the speakers and had a riotous time together, from what this proud teacher could tell. Thanks for capturing it all so well.

3) phone tag continues....

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