Arrrgh! The stupid Build Server will no longer boot again preventing me from actually getting any work done on the project that I want to get done with so I can do actual actual work. Plus, for the (looking up actual number) 4th time I getting asked how to verify this particular fix with product A. I said 3 times that product A does not contain a single line of code from the project that the fix is in. Ugh.

but there no gifts, not even a little cash. I was disappointed.

Aww, I'm sorry. But that reminds me, are people really aware of graduation announcements? Because, to me, it totally looks like an invitation to graduation, what with the invitation look, the announcement of graduation, and the date and time. I would show up, thinking it was an invitation, when, really, all the person wanted from me was a check. I had no idea. I didn't buy any, because I'm pretty sure no one in my family knows about graduation announcements, either, and the people who might actually give me money already know I'm graduating. The announcements just seem to add confusion to the mix. And yet, most people I've talked to do seem to know about them. Weird.

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ruh-roh. that's gonna suck.

I think graduation announcements are key for the not-that-close (geographically and familially) people. They'd never actually come to the graduation, but you want to remind them to send you stuff.

Ooh, will I get presents for getting a master's?? I wonder if my parents will even come to graduation.

I want belt test presents, dammit. Okay, maybe just for black, but I want them.

Thanks, Sue. Safari doesn't really let me hover and learn anything. I kind of have to click and drag it to see the number, which is what I meant when I said click, earlier. But actually clicking and going to the profile to do the number thing is very very logical, and not something I would have figured out on my own for a while. Thanks!

I wonder if my parents will even come to graduation.

Mine insisted. It was a little scary. (Not that I mind, of course.)

Arrival t-minus 8 days.

I want belt test presents, dammit. Okay, maybe just for black, but I want them.

You need to send out announcements, see?

Mine insisted. It was a little scary. (Not that I mind, of course.)

I would guess mine will be like that, but you never know with them -- they might not think it's that big a deal? I mean, my mother's doctorate was a BFD, with a party and everything, but that's a doctorate.

I didn't even give my parents the option. I just decided I wasn't going to the ceremony.