Last Friday I went to see my cousin Jeffrey graduate from LSU. He was the type of guy who changed his major a bunch of times, never went to football games (I KNOW!), and we always joked “he’ll have to graduate someday, right?” I was so proud about how he stuck things out and finished a degree. The graduation was almost three hours, and I realized why I had fallen asleep during my own graduation. Anyway, it was a great day spent with family, and seeing Jeff become a college graduate.

The sad news of the same day was finding out Mike the Tiger had died. I remember when I was little my grandmother would take us over to campus to see the Tiger. Apparently when I was first going to see the Tiger, it was Mike IV. Anyway, Mike V died the day before graduation. My uncle said now that Jeff had graduated, Mike could die happy. :) After the graduation, I went over to the ‘habitat’ (because it’s not really a cage anymore, it’s pretty nice) and took a couple of pictures. I’m pretty proud of the one I got with the two little kids against the glass. It was totally unintentional, because I was just wanting a picture of the wreath and to catch up with the rest of my family on the way to a late lunch. there were a ton of people standing around because the graduation had just gotten out, and right when i went to take the picture, the two kids were standing there. Funny how things work out sometimes.

In other news, the grad school class I have been struggling with most of the semester finished up with a final that I really had no idea if it was really good or really bad. It was an ordeal just to get the thing turned in. I went up to office depot to fax it with about 45 min to spare. I browsed around the store afterward looking for a printer or something. I got home and had an email saying “please re-send your exam”. I tried calling only to get voice mail. I went back to OD to fax it again. Of course, the line was busy. the 4 pm deadline comes and the fax still had not gone through. I get them to scan it and I take it home to email. Email is down, so I have to gmail it. Gmail goes through at 15 after. No email, no notice, no anything about grades being posted even though we had continuously gotten emails about things like voting for Student Government. I was sweating the grade, because I had to make a B or better to avoid having to pay for the class myself (ie $2000). I put off checking the grade and kept saying “i haven’t gotten an email about the grades yet” to people who’d ask. Last night I had completed a great weekend, and figured I might as well check the grade since the weekend was over, and really, i’d be okay either way. So I checked the grade and i got a B. Never in my life have I been that happy to get a B!