Happy Graduation to Kalev And Various Other Things Of A Celebratory Nature
Congratulations to Kalev, who graduated with his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology today! He now has a “B.A.” to join the “B.Sc.” after his name. I went to his grad ceremony today and I have absolutely no photos of it to show you since I took photos on his camera instead of mine. D’oh! I can however, show you this photo of his present:
Special thanks to the Twitterverse, who answered my “where do I get chocolate letters?” tweet with many, many responses that it is the Dutch who love them some chocolate letters and, more specifically, that Dutch Girl Chocolates on Commercial Drive1 is the place to be. I’d previously found chocolate letters at Chocolate Arts on W. 4th, but they only had milk chocolate ones and everyone knows that milk chocolate is for suckers. Also, they charge $100 million per letter. Dutch Girl’s were much more reasonably priced and they had them in dark chocolate. Yay!
Oh yeah, and what’s wrapped up in the present is this. Because Kalev is off to grad school in September. I think he wants to get the M.A. and the Ph.D. just so he can have more chocolate letters!
Also of a celebratory nature today was my going away lunch at work. Most of my coworkers are away at a conference in Kelowna tomorrow and Friday and my last day is Monday, but I’ll be out of the office at events most of that day, so today was really my last day in the office when most people were going to be there. So we all had lunch together and my boss and another manager both said a lot of very nice things about me. And I got a card that everyone signed that was really cool because everyone wrote very thoughtful things – quite a reminder of all the good friends I’ve made there. And then we ate this ridiculously delicious chocolate cake from Capers:
And the final thing worth celebrating was this wicked awesome parking spot2 I got at work today:
There is *very* limited free parking around the perimeter of the site where I work. *Very* limited. And whenever you try to park there, there are always these spots between cars that are just a teeny tiny bit to small to park a normal car in (it’s what my one coworker calls “asshole parking”). In the past, everytime I saw an example of asshole parking I would think, “I bet you could fit a Smart Car in there!” And now I know that you can!
1Dave, I thought of you when I drove up Commercial Drive. I didn’t see any hippies there. But, on a related note, the valedictorian at the grad ceremony WASN’T WEARING SHOES!!
2Yes, I was so pleased with the parking spot that I actually took a *photo* of it!
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I might start collecting diplomas too if I knew there was chocolate involved!
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Congratulations, Kalev!! We hope to see you in Septemeber when we’re in town.
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Thanks Sarah… do you mean you are hoping to see me in Toronto in September? Because that’s where I’ll be (although it seems quite impossible now that I’ll have moved across the country by then).
And thank you, Beth… although I am sad to report I now only have a B and not a BA. Somehow the A disappeared… into my tummy!
A barefoot valedictorian? ARGGGHHHH! I hate him. And I was even there! Did he have my boxing gloves?
Also: congratulations, Kalev!
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Or perhaps “wasn’t even there” would make more sense
Dave’s last blog post..GO Train Observations
Thanks Dave… oh, and the “valedictorian” (who wasn’t really a valedictorian) was a woman.
Yeah, they don’t call them a “valedictorian” – they say “here’s some random student who is so poor from paying tuition fees that SHE CAN’T EVEN AFFORD TO BUY SHOES!!! She’s going to announce the gift that THE STUDENTS ARE GIVING TO THE UNIVERSITY. Because their tens of thousands of dollars, blood, sweat and tears wasn’t enough. Also, we are taking each of their first-borns”