Missy has graduated! Unbelievable. Her years at Ball State University have flown by. I’m not sure how my 4 years at RHIT took literally forever and her 4 years have gone by in a blink. Anyway, I took half of Friday off and we headed to Muncie (Beth, Alex, and I) in the afternoon because there was an expo of the seniors’ work going on that we wanted to attend. Missy and all her friends and frenemies had their stuff showing on screens in the lobby of the building where the art department is held, and we got to see everything including a showing of their short films in an auditorium. Judy traveled all the way up from Birmingham to join us for the graduation ceremonies as well. After the expo was over, Beth realized that she had forgotten all of her meds, so rather than have her feel terrible for the next few days I dropped everyone off at Missy’s apartment and headed back to Warsaw. Drove home, picked up Beth’s meds which were all assembled together in a pill container on the sink in the bathroom and ready to be packed, and drove back (to Anderson, actually, because we couldn’t find a hotel room in Muncie). The rest of everyone went out to dinner while I was on the road; I got back to the room around 11pm or so. The next morning we met up with Judy and headed to campus. Traffic was as bad as I’ve ever seen it but not too bad. I did find some parking on campus-ish. Natalie and her bf Jacob joined us at the auditorium for the ceremony. The graduation was very nice, if mostly standard, but there was a big surprise for everyone, including the students who also had no idea…but the speaker for the graduation was Hugh Jackman! He’s dating a professor in the arts department, apparently. He gave a nice speech for the graduates, and enough of them went over to shake his hand while they walked across the stage to get their diplomas that the dean “encouraged” them to move it along several times. Afterwards Missy went with us to Anderson because the restaurants in Muncie were all packed. She chose Texas Road House but the line there was huge so we went to Red Lobster instead (cheddar bay biscuits….mmm mmm). Then we had a little party for Missy at Judy’s hotel room, before packing it all up and heading home. Missy came with us. I think she felt too exhausted to drive herself. She’s going to stay at home for a week before heading back. 

FCC softball is back baby! Last Tuesday was the debut of the new team. Mostly like the old team, but a few new faces this year and a few missing. The church is getting to the point where we could just about support having 3 teams: my team fielded 17 on opening night, which meant that nearly everyone had to split time in the field with someone, and also since we got creamed, many only batted once (including me, and my one at-bat resulted in a piddling little grounder and an out). We lost 17-5, but we were never going to beat that team. They had a bunch of big young strapping guys, and we have guys like their dads. But we have fun losing, as always.

I had a consult this week Thursday for a scoping. The acid reflux or whatever it is is still hanging around, although it’s been better lately. But I thought the scope was actually going to be Thursday. So I fasted. Until the appointment at 3:00 pm. When it turned out that that particular day it was just meeting the doctor and him telling me that he’s going to scope me. Which I already knew. So I was really hungry. Anyway, I’ll see the doctor again in a couple weeks for him to actually scope me.