Thoughts on graduation.
I went to my cousin's 8th grade graduation earlier tonight. It was a Catholic school so the whole ceremony was a mass followed by the kids all getting their diplomas. I found the following things pretty funny about the whole ordeal.
1) The girl that gave the opening speech used the word "Monumentous", which is a combination of the words "Monumental" and "Momentous". Clever, but still not a real word. Those are 9th grade words, I guess.
2) The priest opened with the joke, "These kids worked hard to get here... well, sometimes they worked hard." Then everyone laughed a little and I started to yell out "ZING!" until I remembered that I was not in a bar so instead I just kinda went "Zzzzzzz....". Luckily, I don't think anyone noticed.
3) The priest went off on a tangent about "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" during his homily. Which was pretty awesome. At the end, his point was that getting your diploma was kind of like how Indiana Jones' father found the Holy Grail at the end of the movie. The problem with this analogy was that he said, "Getting your diploma feels the same as holding the Holy Grail." Everyone kinda nodded, but then I thought, "How should I know what finding the Holy Grail feels like?"
4) There was one kid with a jew-fro that kept flashing the West Side gang sign. You know, the one where you cross your middle and ring fingers and spead out all the rest of your fingers and wave your hand around like an idiot? Yeah, he did that a lot when they were talking about how great the kids were and when he got his diploma. Do 13 year olds even remember all that east side/west side rap stuff? I think I was in like 6th grade... there's no way. Maybe he thought it was something else. That would explain why he was throwing gang signs around at his catholic grade school graduation.
5) Some kids played a really out of tune rendition of Canon in D on their violins and Cellos. It would have been really good had they been in tune. I guess you don't pay attention to things like that when you're in 8th grade... or not a jerk about things like that.
-Mike Sherry
Here's your moment of zen.
1) The girl that gave the opening speech used the word "Monumentous", which is a combination of the words "Monumental" and "Momentous". Clever, but still not a real word. Those are 9th grade words, I guess.
2) The priest opened with the joke, "These kids worked hard to get here... well, sometimes they worked hard." Then everyone laughed a little and I started to yell out "ZING!" until I remembered that I was not in a bar so instead I just kinda went "Zzzzzzz....". Luckily, I don't think anyone noticed.
3) The priest went off on a tangent about "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" during his homily. Which was pretty awesome. At the end, his point was that getting your diploma was kind of like how Indiana Jones' father found the Holy Grail at the end of the movie. The problem with this analogy was that he said, "Getting your diploma feels the same as holding the Holy Grail." Everyone kinda nodded, but then I thought, "How should I know what finding the Holy Grail feels like?"
4) There was one kid with a jew-fro that kept flashing the West Side gang sign. You know, the one where you cross your middle and ring fingers and spead out all the rest of your fingers and wave your hand around like an idiot? Yeah, he did that a lot when they were talking about how great the kids were and when he got his diploma. Do 13 year olds even remember all that east side/west side rap stuff? I think I was in like 6th grade... there's no way. Maybe he thought it was something else. That would explain why he was throwing gang signs around at his catholic grade school graduation.
5) Some kids played a really out of tune rendition of Canon in D on their violins and Cellos. It would have been really good had they been in tune. I guess you don't pay attention to things like that when you're in 8th grade... or not a jerk about things like that.
-Mike Sherry
Here's your moment of zen.