4) Last night’s convocation ceremony went well<\/b>; under two hours for all of U of T’s 2005 crop of new Ph.D.’s, M.A.’s and M.Sc.’s. Guest speaker was Professor Michael Bloom, who did a great job with his “graduate students as long distance runners” metaphor. Poor 5) While I was waiting to graduate, I thought of<\/b> one of my old teachers who used to go up to the chalkboard if someone raised a dissenting voice in his class, and draw a chart. On one side would be his name, on the other side, his student’s name. Then he would ask the student to please come to the board to settle the academic dispute by transcribing all their academic qualifications. He would proceed to turn to the board and write down his high school diploma, bachelor’s degree, Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. The kid would have to stand there like a total boob, wishing he\/she had a knife instead of a piece of chalk. Last night I got one qualification closer to being able to legitimately defend my opinions about the rhetorical tone of Brutus in Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’ against Brian Switzer<\/b>.<\/p>\n 6) Next time I renovate a bathroom, I know exactly<\/i> what’s happening with the commode. Oh yeah, baybee. The Aquariass is where it is AT.<\/b> (see below) Graduation gift, anyone? 1) No news from Greg May as yet. 2) Best political headline in today’s news? “Joe Volpe’s pants are on fire” (as seen in the National Post, Nov. 18, page A20) 3) I have five NuvaRings to replace my Ortho-Evra Deathpatch, thanks to ‘s suggestion and my physician’s prescription, and will post more on them […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/images.google.ca\/url?q=http:\/\/www.anniescostumes.com\/deluxdarth.jpg\")
\nThere were two pranksters<\/b>: one classy Master of Science who hid a bottle of champers and a styrofoam cup under his robe and popped the cork on stage, toasted his congrats to all graduates, then poured a glass for the provost; another M.Sc. who hid a darth vader mask and black leather glove under the robe and wore both onstage, turning and shaking his fist at the crowd while yelling “victory!” before departing to get his diploma.<\/p>\n
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