commencement

for those of you who aren't on facebook, i did my "walk-through" at the departmental commencement last weekend. i was also recruited last minute to be the doctoral student speaker -- it appears none of my 7 fellow graduates wanted to do it for various reasons. i thought 3 minutes would be easy, but it wasn't. i scribbled my last lines while i was walking from the car to the commencement site. and the speech took 6 minutes, although i heard it didn't feel long. phew. all done now. parents were happy and proud; lots of photos were taken.

photos from my camera and a friend's camera are on flickr.

if you haven't seen, my commencement speech is here (click thru to youtube if you need to see the scripts -- it's in the video description on the right):


now i move on back to dissertation writing! woohoo! yeah....