It's worth the hassle to get the tassle

words of one of our board members at today's graduation. Silly yes, but true. And I have several flisters who are graduating in the next few weeks. CONGRATS to you all.

Also Happy Birthday to esmeralda_t it was either today or yesterday but for me, this is on time. Hope it was a good one.

So yes it was graduation day, 404 students. It only rained on the last 20 minutes of it. Our speaker actually didn't suck. He's a new board member, a former politician (campaign manager for Clinton, Biden), grew up in this area and now is running sustained energy businesses. I'd like to get him back to speak about those to my students.

After that some of us convened at B's house since she lives right there next to campus. Sophie, the lab/chow mix was very very glad to see me and ripped a few ruts in my arm jumping up to prove it. She's a sweet dog but a bit hyper. It was nice to chill in someone's house and just talk for hours. One of my friends, H, the one who beat me out for the Welsh program (she's doing welsh film since she's a film and lit prof) also has an amazing month long fellowship at the summer institute in the Berkshires studying African-America lit. She got very lucky this year. That's really super cool.

( 195, caturday, meet flat cat )

Help the south

Alright I've committed (or should be committed...) to writing another fanfic if someone were to bid on me. You can find My Fanfiction offering right here. Basically it's the same offer I made for help_japan There is a whole host of fandoms on offer anime and TV


also I DID make another offering as Jana but this time it's just for naming privledges/dedication. I'm not sure I could take on another writing assignment (in spite of my friends faith in me).

HOWEVER, between you me and the lamp post, if someone off my flist wins the bid, we can talk about a possible story (believe it or not, there were a few people I had no clue who they were bidding on Jana last time). So if you want to see more Temple or Hikaru or someone totally new it might be a chance.

Jana’s offering

Alright, hopefully this will raise some money