Getting Ready to March

Tonight is my graduation ceremony.  As many of you know, I earned a Master's in Fine Arts, Professional Writing in January.  This evening I will march with some of my esteemed colleagues to be "hooded" in an academic ceremony with roots many years old. 

I never did dry clean the robe and hood. In fact, I decided to just leave them safely in the plastic bag until I get to the campus tonight. They didn't look too crinkly when I peeked inside; and anyhow, if I'm crinkly tonight, certainly many others will be, too.

Yours truly is featured on the Graduates in the Spotlight page of the university's website. The usual...why I was nuts enough to do this, favorite memories, advice to new students.  You'll also see my good friend, Fletcher Dean, listed here as well. Fletch is a fellow corporate communicator, with a special talent for writing great speeches! He and I both juggled our full-time studies with our day jobs of writing words for other people.

If you'd like to check it out, click here.

Now I've got to figure out WHAT to wear under that cap, gown, and hood.  A few hours to go...any ideas? Formal, casual, wacky, crazy?