John McMullen of John's Lifetime Reading and Raccoldta di Citazioni is graduating today. Here's hoping he'll have a chance to relax and read for a bit this summer before he has to crate his cat, pack all those books he has into boxes, and drive off to a new life in a cultural wasteland--at least where Southern literature is concerned (and that's all that matters, right?).
Happy graduation day, John. Wishing you the best in the research and teaching to come.
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Thanks! It was a fun day, filled with moms and blue skies and salmon pesto and ice cream cake from Maple View Farm. My advisor read my abstract to the assembled multitude, and didn't even get drowned out by snores. I graduated with several of my students, which was fun. Now I need to pack all the books up to move them to those cornfields....
ReplyDeleteHmmm, my day with moms and blue skies wasn't nearly as intellectually stimulating!
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear it went well. And of course no one snored: they understood what you were writing about.