Graduation

So yeah... I graduated about a month ago. The whole thing was kinda sudden, and somewhat anticlimactic, for the fact that I still have two courses left to take starting in July. The actual graduation ceremony wasn't really even on my radar, until the day before, when I received an e-mail from the undergraduate director of my department (linguistics). He told me I had been selected to receive a departmental award, and "enthusiastically encouraged" me to attend the departmental ceremony the next morning. So, as luck would have it, my sister was in town under otherwise unfortunate circumstances, and was able to make it on short notice, as well as my mom, and the Izer. (Dad couldn't make it.) I got a nice little plaque (right now I'm having trouble seeing that word as anything other than something you don't want -- on your teeth), and was also told a check was in the mail, but I've yet to see it. I'm currently debating on whether to look a gift horse in the mouth and complain about that.

So that's about it. I graduated. I didn't attend the big ceremony with all the brouhaha. Wasn't in the mood for that. I opted instead for a nice lunch at the Cafe with Mom and Sis.