PKO Graduates!

You might recall reading about PKO here. Or my photo-filled walk to her Senior Dessert.  But today she graduates!

Small school graduations.  So very different from big school graduations.IMG_5455

Here are the members of the Class of ’16.  They each got to pick the color of their graduation gown. (Which was very hard for me; the uniformity of graduation gowns and mortarboards is the only reason to wear them.  This just looks messy.)IMG_5457

PKO listening to her teacher’s speech about her.  It was a great speech, filled with all sorts of fun PKO facts.IMG_5466

The degrees have been conferred and the tassels have been switched.  She has two tassels because she was the recipient of an achievement award.IMG_5482

After the teachers made speeches about the students and the students said their thank yous, the staff sang a song to the students.  In keeping with the theme of the teachers’ speeches, the song’s main sentiment was, “Yep, you’re done.  Time to leave now.  Door’s that way.”  This theme was initially off-putting, and then quickly became tremendously fun.  It was like a gentle student roast by teachers who knew the students very, very well.IMG_5486

PKO and the moms, TO & LKIMG_5499

PKO and more of the fam.IMG_5496

PKO with her friends.IMG_5516

Congratulations PKO!

Three sentence movie reviews: Point Break

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Wow, this movie holds up really well!  Sure, Keanu Reeves is employing his usual “acting” method of saying his lines really carefully and with feeling,* but damn, this movie is fun.  Surfing, bank robbing, Lori Petty, skydiving, James Le Gros, a running chase scene Tom Cruise would be proud of, Patrick Swayze piking out of a plane, the most excellent line “I am an F.B.I. Agent” delivered most excellently by Mr. Reeves, plus, as the poster advertises:  100% pure adrenaline.

Cost:  free from work-sponsored Netflix
Where watched: at home.  (Had I known that Matt had never seen this, I would have insisted he sit and watch it.  But he half watched it while playing a game.)

*But “acting” skills aside, there’s just something about him that draws the eye.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/1991/point_break_ver1.html
(fold lines!!)

Three sentence movie review: The Longest Week

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This movie was trying to be a less-twee Wes Anderson film and in doing so, completely failed at being interesting.  It was a movie I gave my full attention to at first, but after 30 minutes decided that perhaps painting my toenails while watching was perhaps a better use of my time.  The movie is now over and the toes are now silver.

Cost:  free from library
Where watched: at home

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2014/longest_week.html