Graduation
The UW Law School commencement ceremony for the Class of 2009 is this Sunday at 2:30 PM Pacific. It's at Meany Hall on the UW campus. I am getting my Juris Doctor degree, with a concentration track in Public Service Law - Civil and Human Rights. We are the first graduating class to have this concentration track.
I have one spare ticket (assuming my sister's boyfriend really, truly is not coming), if anybody wants it. You'd probably have to find me in the pre-ceremony madhouse to get the ticket from me. Otherwise, if you can't make it but wish to bore yourself remotely, the school is broadcasting the ceremony live, from this URL, starting around 2. "To view the webcast you will need a Windows PC running Internet Explorer 6 or higher and Windows Media Player 9 or higher. Both are available for free from http://update.microsoft.com." Thanks, William H. Gates Hall.
I assume we are going in alphabetical order. There are about 175 of us. It's a pretty small school. Our commencement speaker is the state attorney general. (The main campus graduation, the previous day, gets Defense Secretary Robert Gates. They win.)
I am pleased that the doctoral hood for Law is purple, which is not only the UW color but also my favorite color. I will be wearing a dress under my robe.
I am flying into town tomorrow afternoon and get in at 4:30. May hit up a friend's birthday party at the Baltic Room that night if I can get away. It'd be cool to get brunch in Cap Hill on Sunday but my mom is a very late riser so lord knows what we'll do. We have to go back to the airport around 5:30 Sunday, which leaves me and my family an entire whopping hour for the reception at the law school building after the ceremony ends. (We get a BAGPIPER leading us from Meany Hall to Gates Hall.)
It is really an enormous inconvenience for me, my parents, and my sister to travel from California and Arizona, respectively, for a two-hour ceremony in the middle of the stupid afternoon, but I'm $128,000 in debt and I'll be goddamned if I don't get my 5 seconds of recognition and my handshake from the dean.
OK, back to studying the hearsay exceptions.
I have one spare ticket (assuming my sister's boyfriend really, truly is not coming), if anybody wants it. You'd probably have to find me in the pre-ceremony madhouse to get the ticket from me. Otherwise, if you can't make it but wish to bore yourself remotely, the school is broadcasting the ceremony live, from this URL, starting around 2. "To view the webcast you will need a Windows PC running Internet Explorer 6 or higher and Windows Media Player 9 or higher. Both are available for free from http://update.microsoft.com." Thanks, William H. Gates Hall.
I assume we are going in alphabetical order. There are about 175 of us. It's a pretty small school. Our commencement speaker is the state attorney general. (The main campus graduation, the previous day, gets Defense Secretary Robert Gates. They win.)
I am pleased that the doctoral hood for Law is purple, which is not only the UW color but also my favorite color. I will be wearing a dress under my robe.
I am flying into town tomorrow afternoon and get in at 4:30. May hit up a friend's birthday party at the Baltic Room that night if I can get away. It'd be cool to get brunch in Cap Hill on Sunday but my mom is a very late riser so lord knows what we'll do. We have to go back to the airport around 5:30 Sunday, which leaves me and my family an entire whopping hour for the reception at the law school building after the ceremony ends. (We get a BAGPIPER leading us from Meany Hall to Gates Hall.)
It is really an enormous inconvenience for me, my parents, and my sister to travel from California and Arizona, respectively, for a two-hour ceremony in the middle of the stupid afternoon, but I'm $128,000 in debt and I'll be goddamned if I don't get my 5 seconds of recognition and my handshake from the dean.
OK, back to studying the hearsay exceptions.