- Ceremony will be indoors in an auditorium, rather than at the lovely Greek outdoor theater where I had spent many drunk evenings laying in the grass.
- My hat will just be a black hat, not decked out with a masking tape peace sign. I still don't like the war but I'm not a hippie anymore.
- More regalia, although maybe less regalia than my high school graduation (the IB diploma meant a LOT of cords and tassels and medals).
- I won't be packing up and leaving a life in California and all of my friends from the past four years. That was the hardest part of graduation-- being excited, but also feeling an immense sadness at leaving so many good friends and a life I had made in California. This graduation seems like it will be much less emotional. I will go out to lunch after the ceremony with my family, and then life will continue as it has for the past few years. A good life it is, and way less dramatic than flying to a whole new life less than 24 hours after graduation.
- A career. At college graduation, I had no idea where I was going to work and how I was going to make money. Now I have a real job that is more properly defined as a "career." My grandparents have been saying I am "obsessed with my career" for years. I always found this funny since I didn't have a career. Now I will.
- Do they play Pomp and Circumstance for law school graduations? I sort of hope they play the Law and Order theme instead.
I'll let you know.
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It would be so awesome if they played the little "chuh, chuh" noise that they play in between scenes on “Law and Order” every time that they handed out a diploma. Or at least between speakers. Or in the event that someone spoke too long maybe.
I met a guy last week who was down here visiting the law school (a boyfriend of Nate's old publicist). After casually mentioning that he had previously thought about going to med school as a back up plan (!), he said that his ex-girlfriend wouldn't let him go to law school a few years back when he first wanted to because her impression of law school and the practice of law had been heavily influenced by "Night Court." I looked at him askance and then decided that his ex probably wouldn’t have given him such a hard time if she had watched “Law and Order” instead.
Then I just figured that he was kind of a chode and that his ex probably was too. Who spends 10 years in school and $300,000 on a back up plan or forbids someone to follow their dream because of a lingering mental image of Bull?
well, for my graduation there was no law and order theme song but a reggae band played pomp and circumstance on steel drums. kind of a different twist on the tradition.
i really hope that they play the law and order theme at your graduation or at some law school, somewhere. that would be so amazing. what day is your official commencement ceremony?
may 12, baby. also, is it ok that my link to your blog is Teeny's California Adventures? It sounds like an 80s movie to me, and well, i know how you love the 80s
yes, i like the link lingo. makes me feel like my boring life is more exciting and of course the echoes of the 80s are always appreciated. you graduate SO SOON!
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