Anne graduated from culinary school last night. Any school administrators out there, take note. This is the way a graduation should be run.
First off: It started at 6pm. SHA does ok with the 1pm graduations. I don't know why every college graduation I have ever been to needed to start at 10 AM. Everyone is just going to go out to eat afterwards, so let's just make the meal of choice dinner instead of lunch.
Second: they served food before the graduation started! We walked into the room, and there were little nibbles laid out all around the edges of the room, and a bar in the back. Feed people first, and everyone will be a little less antsy when they have to listen to boring speeches.
Third: Oh, they left out the boring speeches. Instead, one guy talked for 10 minutes, a lady spoke for 3, then they started bringing the students up for a presentation. A presentation of a silly paper hat! Ah, the crowning moment. Even better, Anne dropped her hat 3 or 4 times. Yee-ha!
All told, the whole thing took about an hour and 20 minutes, INCLUDING the food. Anne, you rule. All my other sisters, if you ever have another graduation, we can just throw you and your closest friends a graduation like that one, and we'll just skip the one your incompetent school administrators set up for you.