10 May

10 May 2007
tony blair
Pleased to note that Tony Blair first became prime minister on my mum's birthday 10 years ago and will step down on my birthday this year. I'm sure this is a sign... of... something...!!??!
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graduation

Yesterday was my MSc graduation, an opportunity to pay large amounts of money to flounce around in a big flappy gown and worry about tripping up the steps onto the stage. Unlike my first graduation (yes, I'm collecting them), my grandma was too frail to come, meaning that the assembled masses missed out on the once in a lifetime opportunity of witnessing an octogenarian in an electric blue suit making inappropriate comments in a stage whisper that's louder than most people's normal speaking voices (she's deaf). Best comment from last time was "Oh my gawd, there's another lot of them, we'll be here all day", to which my mum's embarrassed reply was "No, they're the same ones, they've just come back in."

The electric blue suit did have it's advantages however, since it was easy to spot where they were sitting amongst the sea of grey and black office suits that everyone else was wearing. It would have been more difficult to spot them this time, as my mum and sister steadfastly refused to wear neon clothing, had I not accidentally got them seated in the disabled section. They had front row seats, and a whole row to themselves, and seats that swiveled round so that people with mobility problems don't have to get up to let people past... This happened because my mum genuinely does have severe vertigo and a minor eyesight problem.... I put in a request for them to be seated as close to the ground as possible on this basis (missing out the word minor), and it was evidently taken as a request for accessible seating... Ah well... it was probably a good thing in the end, the seats obviously weren't needed by anyone else, and the families of the people sitting either side of me were up on the 4th floor balcony - my sister possibly would've had to carry mum down from there.