This week has gone by very quickly for me. This past weekend, I went to New York City. My boyfriend and I drove down Sunday morning and we got there about noon, when we met up with my brother for lunch. I always enjoy catching up with my brother. He's my only sibling, and we've always been very close. I never understood siblings who fought all the time.
After that, we went to my friend Carri's ordination ceremony at the Riverside Church. The ordination was the reason that we had gone to New York in the first place. It was actually the most interesting graduation ceremony I have ever attended. Normally, graduation ceremonies are so boring you're spending most of the time trying to figure out how to play with your iPad or whatever device you happen to have without being too obvious to everyone else. At my own college graduation, my aunts and uncles were passing notes and laughing during the convocation, and three of the graduates in my row were listening to music with the ear bud hidden by well-styled hair.
Perhaps the ordination was more interesting to me because it was an Interfaith ordination, and as such there were readings and speeches based in all faiths, and I've always been interested in the religions of the world, and the different ways people view divinity. I also liked how the graduates all had different robes, expressing their individual faith in their own way. They all had their own unique stoles as well. I had made Carri's stole, with ten religious symbols sewn into leaves, all connected by the same vine. I thought it was poetic, and I particularly enjoyed appealing to the energies inherent in each symbol as I sewed them.
After the ordination, we all wen out to dinner, all family and friends, some of whom I hadn't seen since college. Dinner was delicious, and fun is always had when with this particular group of friends.
On Wednesday, I went to another graduation. Unfortunately, this one was the boring kind. My boyfriend's younger sister was graduating from high school. I think it was weird to have it on a Wednesday in the first place. Most people work on weekdays. My cousin is graduating high school this coming weekend- on a SATURDAY! Wednesday graduations, I think, show a view of a very limited world, where everyone you know or would wish to attend your graduation lives close by and gets off work at a predictable time. Granted, some people work Saturdays and such, but the percentage of the population that works during the week as opposed to the weekend, and whose commute takes more than fifteen minutes (I spend up to 40 minutes on a train one way, and the train is usually late) is probably higher than the percentage of the population that couldn't make it to a Saturday event.
However, dinner was nice. My boyfriend's family is interesting and fun. They don't have long conversations about particle physics or other scientific subjects like my family tends to, but they can be interesting, too, and later in the evening, we had a discussion about medieval history, which is a budding interest of mine.
Europe spent over a millennium as the most superstitious, backwards area in the world, and much of who we are today, as people of European descent was formed during that period, and yet relatively few people study it in depth. I think I'm going to buy some lectures while they are still on sale. (A great website I highly recommend to anyone is www.teach12.com . They have lectures on any subject you wish to explore, and they always have sales on interesting things!)
Grammar rule of the day:
There, their, and they're.
"There" is a place that is not "here." You can remember this because "there" is just "here" with a t.
"They're" is a contraction of "they are." If you could just as easily say "they are," then this is the word to use. The apostrophe takes the place of the a in "are."
"Their" is a possessive. It is used to show ownership by a group. "The children are playing with their toys." The toys belong to the children.
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