So apparently, while my parents and I were at my graduation commencement ceremony, this happened to our car while it was parked in my apartment building’s parking lot:

:c

After another two-hour-long dizzying ride back to Madison, I participated in my bachelor’s graduation commencement ceremony back at my university.

It obviously wasn’t the best experience, because it was two hours of listening to people speak and read off graduates’ names, and the fact that the Internet inside the stadium barely worked made the whole situation worse. Either way, it’s finally over now.

My dad took a bunch of photos of the event, but in a majority of them, you can’t see what’s going on because they’re so blurry. Out of the 40 or so photos that my dad took, I picked out five photos in which you could actually see the content of the picture.

The first two are of the Kohl Center, the building in which the ceremony took place.

Ignore the blurry black thing at the bottom-left corner of the photo above – my dad accidentally included the camera’s cord in the picture.

The next photo is of the screen above the ceremony area. The Kohl Center is usually a basketball stadium, which is why this was there. During the ceremony, it was used to give a close-up of the speakers and graduates, as well as closed captioning for the hearing impaired.

The last two photos are of the ceremonial area before commencement began.

All the other photos my dad took of me are too blurry because they were seated so far away. There were, however, professional photographers taking pictures of all the graduates, so once those get processed, I’ll be able to keep those as a souvenir of the ceremony, and possibly post them up here if they’re not too awful.

As I mentioned yesterday, I went to the Deerfield location of Chicago Martial Arts for photos. We had so many people there to get photos that my instructor might as well have told me it was Waiting Day, and not Picture Day.

But of course, that wasn’t that huge of a deal, because that meant I got more time to spend with Kyra, the academy’s mascot.

Kyra had to be locked in the main office a majority of the time so she wouldn’t interfere with the photographer’s work, so I stayed in the office a majority of the time with her so she wouldn’t get too lonely. I do, however, regret not bringing my laptop, because I got pretty bored in there.

After finally getting our photos done (and being gently forced to do some poses and kicks for individual photos, which consequentially led me to overextending my leg muscle as a result of not stretching enough prior to the shoot), we bought way too much fried chicken on the way back, and had dinner back at the Mundelein location while playing League of Legends.