the plan for yesterday was: get outta work at 2:30 and have literally gobs of time to go home, eat something, saunter over to disneyland to pick up michelle, mosey on over to the convention center for danielle's graduation, and then book it back to long beach after taking michelle back to work so i could go to ceramics class.

and it was like the gods were against me doing anything at all, you know what i mean? i get on the freeway that never has any traffic, and there was a big fatty accident so instead of taking 25-30 minutes to get home it took over an hour. get off the freeway in long beach and realize garrrr, there's no time to stop at home and eat i better head towards anaheim. so i drive over by michelle's house and pause at the atm and mcdonalds, and then advanced token to michelle's work. she got outta work late, around 4:45. it's okay, there's still time, graduation starts at 5... we drive quite fast down the one block between d-land and the convention center and when we got there we were met with complete gridlock. parking madness. millions and bajillons of cars all trying to cut in front of each other to get into the parking lot for this graduation.

finally, we get a parking spot and enter the building at about 5:45. as we're bookin' it down the hall, i whipped out my cameraphone to snap a couple of pics as evidence of our incognitoness... thinkin' to myself they probably started a bit late, knowing the parking situation outside, and graduations have tons of speeches and stuff so i bet we do get to see danielle walk across the stage. we get into exhibit hall d, and it turns out they're very streamlined in how their graduations work. we got there with just enough time to see the last 20 kids go across the stage. there was a brief pause in the ceremony as people all started clapping and screaming, and we realized if we didn't leave before the alma mater was played we would spend another 20 hours trying to get out of the parking lot. i got a little weepy when the kids all threw their hats... cuz i'm sentimental and stuff, you know? and little danielle's growin' up... even though we missed most of it, i'm still glad we got to go.

dropped michelle back off at work, booked it the 30something miles back to long beach, got to ceramics class a half hour late... the thing was supposed to go for another 2.5 hours, and it was over ten minutes after i got there. i'm slightly upset that they didn't give us the material list when we signed up, cuz that first class "here's your material list now get outta my face" was kind of a big fattie waste of time and money, but it seems like it'll be cool anyways. we're gonna make whistles in a couple of weeks, and i will use mine to piss off my neighbors. it'll be amazing!

oh right... i'm supposed to be working. i should go.

cheers to danielle on her graduation!