A Quickie

Off to Seattle to see the soulmate graduate. PhDs have become a complicated phenomenon for me in the last 5 or 6 years. Is the dehumanizing process worth it?? My husband would say YES! I would just say, "Pass the Capt'n Crunch cuz all this learnin' is real hard and I need a snack!" But since I wasn't the one writing a dissertation (and I'm also not the one who perpetuates the juxtaposition of level of education and southern pidgin, who was that girl?), I guess Ti's perspective served him well. His committee said the diss was "superb".

So in the interest of time and my wanting to post all the haps of the last little while, but haven't since my obsessions have been elsewhere. Read: Change vs. Experience vs. Right vs. Left vs. Fred vs. Barney . . . oh wait, I digress.

Here's the news and views in a nutshell of what's been going on in my small town.

Foodfest.

Twenty food booths representing twenty different countries and this is what we had for dessert. Poop with cream. But addictive as crack. Next!

Laie Elementary Kindergarten Graduation

Dang! That was a mouthful!

But the sweetest day. Little Celeste with her little buddy, Ku'ulei. Those two were inseparable.
How cute!!! One would never imagine that I would have to mediate the heated discussion which occurred that afternoon about what kind of eyebrows the Mii should have. Awesome.

Laie Elementary Sixth Grade Graduation

Celeste's sister Camille. She and 3 of her classmates won the Presidential Scholar Award. Top four in the school. So proud of her. Almost died actually!
Not unlike the time when she was 6 hours old and lying safely on a pillow. The hospital bed shifted a bit and she rolled from the pillow to the bed. She stayed asleep, it was that gentle.

But I died. And so did her mother. In fact, her mother probably just died again reading and remembering this. Come back alive, Anna! Camille is all grown up and getting awards from George W. Bush!