Graduation Chaos

It’s graduation weekend here in Durham and Chapel Hill. Both UNC and Duke hold graduations this weekend. Why these two schools can’t come together and negotiate holding graduations on different weekends I do not know. To top it all off they are always on Mother’s Day weekend.

This means we have to stay at home and hunker down because the roads, restaurants, hotels, stores, sidewalks, parks and every other inch of our two towns are packed with joyous celebrants.

Thankfully it was a rain free beautiful cool day here today. This helps so much. Sadly the forecast for tomorrow is rain all day so I am unsure if they can even have the big stadium graduations. That is sad, but by the time they get to Sunday morning everyone is partied out and just exhausted. Time to pack it up and go home and celebrate the mothers who made these graduates.

We stayed home all day, gardening and cleaning the furniture on the terrace. I also got in a huge amount of needlepointing.

I am looking forward to the student and parent departures and having Durham quiet for a bit. Congratulations to all the graduates. I hope you all have jobs soon. Welcome to the real world. It’s not half as much fun as college.