A Nice Weekend

Well it was a nice weekend with the family. I went to Appleton, WI for my older brother's college graduation. We watched some soccer games from the World Cup. We got to have some random food at the different sort of gatherings for his graduation. I guess that this was the first college graduation that my father had been to. He has gone through all of college and even further. He has a PhD annd has never even gone to one of his own college graduations. Well the weekend was fun. We went out to eat at a Thai place on saturday night which was very good. It is hard to screw up noodle dishes so I think that most of the people we were with enjoyed it as well. We went back to the campus and showed m mom arund because she had never gotten a full tour of it. We showed her the organic garden that my older brother had helped create. We went to a big party that was being thrown in the rec center that they had on campus. The music was bad. The band claimed to be the #1 soul band in Chicago and if that was the case then Chicago must have one god awful soul scene. There were a bunch of random food stuffs that were good. My brother and I got to have our own room away from our nagging mom. We watched a bunch of stuff on tv and then went to sleep although I was unable to sleep well in the bed that I had. We woke up in the morning in order to watch a soccer game on tv. That was fun then we went to the commencement. The ceremony was ok. A few of the speakers were entertaining. One of them was a documentary filmmaker that had won an emmy that had gone to Lawrence university some years back. She made some liberal political statements that I think were mostly preaching to the choir because of the liberal nature of the school. the student speaker had lots of good jokes so she was fun to listen to. My older brother graduated with honors which will be very hard to live up to. The ceremony took nearly 3 hours hich was way too long for me. We went and saw some of my brother's friends and then it was about time for my dad and I to leave so I could get home at a decent time. We got back and I was able to check my schedule at work and I was able to get more than 30 hours which is good. I am excited about the world cup games that are coming up but also kind of saddened because we do not yet have cable in this house. I am glad that my friend Lemon wants to watch the USA game tomorrow at 11AM. I got back and heard about all of my roommates' weekends which seemed like fun. John was here frm St. Paul for his aniversary with his girl friend. It was good to see him for a little bit. Well I should wrap this up.
Movie of the Day: Waiting, a great comedy about being a waitor but anting more out of life and then going to try to live your dreams. It is very funny and worth seeing. It was not that widely screened in theaters, but it was still funny.
Song of the Day: Run Around----Blues Traveler, they have a great musical sound that is just a bit country mixed with rock and lots of good rhythm especially in this song, worth listening to.
That is all for tonight.