Date: Saturday, June 3, 2000
Time: 3:48 p.m.
Listening to: By My Side, from Godspell (Radio Sonicnet)
Currently obsessing over: Brent Carver
Currently reading: Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Currently avoiding: nothing - I have a rare day off with nothing to do!
Out the window: quite windy, but sunny and warm
Quote of the day: "This past week emails have flooded into my office telling me how much those people are looking forward to my pearls of wisdom at convocation. I was thinking maybe the four of us could get together after the ceremony and discuss that further." - Queen's Principal Dr. Leggett, cutting his convocation address mercifully short
Picture of the day:

Me after my graduation

So I am now officially a university graduate. Wow. I'm having a lot of trouble dealing with that fact. All my life I've been focused on starting school again in September, and I can't quite accept that I won't be doing that this September. And it's been such a great year that I'm sad to see it end. The ceremony was nice yesterday - they even brought it in under two hours, which is pretty amazing considering almost 500 people received their degrees!!! It's actually pretty cool - you go over to the table and they hand you your degree, and then your name is announced and you go up to the principal, kneel before him, he shakes your hand, and then taps you on the shoulder with his hat and says "rise, Bachelor of Arts". You sit in the audience for two hours for the thirty seconds it takes to actually get your degree, but that's ok. :-) After the ceremony I wandered around and took lots of pictures with friends and family and actually took a good look at my degree - to discover it's in Latin!!!! The only part I can read is my name! :-) But it still looks pretty damn impressive. If you want to see pictures they're here (just straight links - I'm too lazy to set up a separate page for them):
#1 - with my dad's parents
#2 - with my mom's parents
#3 - with all four grandparents
#4 - with my mom and dad
#5 - with my sister
#6 - with my aunt
#7 - with Trish
#8 - with Laurie
#9 - with Jessica
#10 - with Lisa and Jessica
#11 - with Andrea

Well, I guess that's all I have to say for now. Tonys are tomorrow night! Yay! I hope everyone has a nice weekend!

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