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June 10, 2004

Regaling

Why the implications of today did not occur to us or Girl-E, we have no idea. For the past few days, she's watched them set up the graduation tent right outside her rather large first floor office window, enjoying the sort of pleasantly novel transformation of a university as it prepares for Commencement. But that tent out there, well it seems it was to be filled with hundreds of loud people today. Oh, and an endless (*endless*) recorded loop of Pomp and Circumstance. At the blink of an eye she could throw up her window and give an impromptu address to the crowd, seeing as her office is smack behind and just to the left of the platform, at exactly the same level. She could also start launching bottles of Poland Spring, or shoot a water gun directly at the graduating doctoral cohort. Their "crimson" (which is actually a blinding fuschia) robes make easy targets. She does have a rubber squirty fish in her purse, but that doesn't hold enough water.

Oh crap, they're starting. How goddam distracting. Oh, and congratulations and stuff.

p.s. Talk about the pot calling the kettle blinding fuschia. Jeez.

Posted by The Twins at June 10, 2004 12:41 PM

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I will totally give you a dollar if you pull a chair over to your window, wave pleasantly to the assembled crowds, make a speech in Latin, and then bless everyone.
No, two dollars.

Posted by: Jess at June 10, 2004 01:19 PM

You have a rubber squirty fish in your purse? Man, you are so my new hero!

Posted by: Dani at June 10, 2004 08:20 PM

Had I known, I would have loaned you one of my talking Mr. T keychain accessories, and you could have broadcast that through a megaphone.

Next year, I guess.

Posted by: nikita at June 11, 2004 11:40 AM