It was -- surprisingly! -- great fun. :-) I was prepared to be much more bored and uncomfortable than I in fact turned out to be, and it was totally new ground for both me and Hel.
Amusingly, we were both reminded of OTO in parts, most likely because it's our only experience with such pomp and regalia! ;->
Maybe not the last time, though. I understand there are these things called "Masters Degrees" and "Doctorates," y'know.... ;->
The slumdogs held their own! ;-> We had a little group of eight, only two of us with any experience at this kind of thing at all -- Tam's boyfriend, a high school graduate, and Hel's Grandma, a hard times college grad and lifelong schoolteacher till her retirement. There are no blood ties between them, but I think Grandma's pride atcually rivalled mine and Hel's.
It's like with me and my sisters -- not one of us graduated high school, but every single one of our kids has gone/is going to college. Hel's grandma is an 87-year-old farm wife with the belief that formal education is always worth working hard to attain, because it improves one's life. Even if you never "use" what you learned. Even if you never "need" it
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This is still my second-favorite era of Mom-hood. Early childhood will always be #1, but the fellow-adults thing is flat awesome. ;-> There's no vicariousness involved, it's just seeing someone you love wholeheartedly go out in the world and do well.
I don't think there's anything like it. This is the way it's supposed to be, y'know? Just wonderful! :->
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Amusingly, we were both reminded of OTO in parts, most likely because it's our only experience with such pomp and regalia! ;->
Maybe not the last time, though. I understand there are these things called "Masters Degrees" and "Doctorates," y'know.... ;->
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Though I had to laugh when my F-i-L referred to his doctoral robe as "the one with the sergeant's stripes."
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It's like with me and my sisters -- not one of us graduated high school, but every single one of our kids has gone/is going to college. Hel's grandma is an 87-year-old farm wife with the belief that formal education is always worth working hard to attain, because it improves one's life. Even if you never "use" what you learned. Even if you never "need" it ( ... )
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This is still my second-favorite era of Mom-hood. Early childhood will always be #1, but the fellow-adults thing is flat awesome. ;-> There's no vicariousness involved, it's just seeing someone you love wholeheartedly go out in the world and do well.
I don't think there's anything like it. This is the way it's supposed to be, y'know? Just wonderful! :->
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