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nonionayThanks to the power of streaming video, I just watched Keffy graduate online. I'm so happy for her. She's worked hard for five years to earn two degrees (BA and BS). Keffy has the right mixture of willpower, ambition and raw talent, so I know she's going to end up in great places. I've watched Keffy overcome crippling self-doubt to throw herself fully into her dreams. Early in our friendship, my little writing group would tease her about her inability to finish things. That's changed by now, and even those things she hasn't finished, she hasn't cast aside. Despite knowing nothing about drawing, she started a webcomic, and though life and school causes long delays between updates, she's never given up, and she's never stopped improving.
I'm very lucky to know Keffy, whose uninhibited use of color in her wardrobe is inspiring.
Anyway, I'm terrible at expressing myself, so I'll just say that Keffy rocks, I'll miss her while she's at Clarion this summer, and I'll be even sadder when she leaves Bham for the big world.
And today, I'm grateful to her for reminding me how happy I am that I didn't attend my commencement ceremony. True, I muted much of it, but I listened to all of Mariners CEO's speech. It was an interesting mixture of standard "your life will change" talk, political polemic ("I wonder, if we still had the draft, would we have allowed the war in Iraq?") and condescension ("At first, I didn't want to give this speech, because what could a 65 year old businessman have to say to you young people. Maybe I should talk about video games, because I was with Nintendo...")
The actual granting of degrees is inspiring, yet mind-numbingly boring. They're sorted by college, rather than major or name, so Chelsea and I dutifully stared at the screen until Keffy went by.
I'm very lucky to know Keffy, whose uninhibited use of color in her wardrobe is inspiring.
Anyway, I'm terrible at expressing myself, so I'll just say that Keffy rocks, I'll miss her while she's at Clarion this summer, and I'll be even sadder when she leaves Bham for the big world.
And today, I'm grateful to her for reminding me how happy I am that I didn't attend my commencement ceremony. True, I muted much of it, but I listened to all of Mariners CEO's speech. It was an interesting mixture of standard "your life will change" talk, political polemic ("I wonder, if we still had the draft, would we have allowed the war in Iraq?") and condescension ("At first, I didn't want to give this speech, because what could a 65 year old businessman have to say to you young people. Maybe I should talk about video games, because I was with Nintendo...")
The actual granting of degrees is inspiring, yet mind-numbingly boring. They're sorted by college, rather than major or name, so Chelsea and I dutifully stared at the screen until Keffy went by.
