Graduation Highlights

Today was just an all around great day! Some of the highlights, in no particular order, included:
(Warning: Sorry, this post gets a little long!)

• Wearing the incredibly cute new outfit that my mom (and dad, by association :)) bought for me to wear, and then covering that outfit up with a silly graduation gown.

• Hearing the guy who was sitting one person away from me at commencement whisper to the guy sitting right next to me that there was something that smelled "really really good" and then having the guy right next to me whisper back to him that "ya, it does smell really good, it's the girl sitting next to me" ....why thank you, feel free to whisper complements about me as much as you'd like :)

• All the professors lined the sidewalk leading into the Hart and clapped as we (all the graduates) walked past them to go take our seats. I loved it! They just made graduation seem like such an accomplishment and such a big deal. I think everyone should have the opportunity of walking through a group of people who are clapping for them, it's good for the soul! :)
  

• After walking across the stage and having our names read at convocation, Brother Romney, the horticulture teacher on campus and my sister-in-laws dad, was at the end giving each graduate a rose. He was really sweet and picked me out the prettiest rose in the bunch when I got to him. Perks of family connections :)

• My cute 3 yr old niece, Autumn, who is a more interested in fashion than I am, told me my graduation cap looked weird and then backpedaled when she realized what she's said. "But...I like that it's black...I do! That tassel is cute and black... It is! And, I like your head right there..." Well, thank you Autumn I'm rather fond of your head too. :)
  

• Having Amberlee and Autumn wake me up this morning by coming into my room and jumping on me while yelling "happy graduation day." It was made an even better highlight because Autumn couldn't quite say it right so she kept saying "Happy grajitation day.... gravitation day....gradgiation day"
  

• Lydia rubbed my feet before I even got out of bed.
  

• After convocation, as I was talking to Lizzie and her mom, I found out that one of my past professors, brother Shaw, used an assignment that I had turned in to him previously, as an example of how he wanted his students to do their final reports if they wanted him to give them extra credit. He told the class that he had given me extra credit for my paper which was news to me, good news, but news. It was the last report I had turned in to him, and he isn't very good about posting grades and such so I had no idea. When I was in the class I had just gotten sick of writing the same reports with the same format every time, and I'm sure they were boring for brother Shaw to read, so on my final report I just switched things up a bit and made my report into a poem. I was a little worried that he would think I was a looser and give me a bad grade (he has a personality that is a little hard to read sometimes), but I decided to turn it in anyway. After all this time I'm glad to find out that he did like it after all. He had told me while I was in his class that he had been using my regular reports to teach some of his other classes about how to write a good safety report, and that was flattering. But then to find out that he was showing his classes my "outside the box" report, that I didn't even know if he liked or not, and was now offering students extra credit to follow my lead .... well, that's so much better than the icing on the cake!! :) The report I wrote is really not that great and it's pretty silly, but I will post it as a page on the right side of my blog if you are interested in reading it, anyway.

• My final highlight of the day was that I got a Georgia Mud Fudge blizzard at Dairy Queen after graduation. My parents took me. Georgia Mud Fudge is the best ever! Delicious!