TTBM and TTPM Friday

Truth be told, not a lot is bugging me today, but here goes.

Things That Bug Me
1. How much hassle it is getting my name changed every place I need to do it. Some of it was really easy, but the waits were long (new DL); and some of it is unecessarily complicated (my bank).
2. It kind of bugs me that a woman is still expected to change her name in this day and age when she gets married, but men get to keep their names all their lives. I understand that a lot, if not most, women are happy to take the name of the man that they love; it should feel like a celebration, though, not an obligation.
3. Not all the pictures I took last night came out the way I wanted.

Things That Please Me
1. That Boy graduated last night!
2. The staff of the Secondary Options school for this school district. He would have probably dropped out if not for Options.

So a couple of pictures from the ceremony. Because it's a small school, with 21 graduates last night (only 19 of them were able to be present), each graduate was introduced individually by their primary teacher from the last year, and each had the opportunity to speak to the crowd. That Boy said, "I want to thank my mom for putting up with my crap." He got a good laugh from that.

This picture is his primary teacher talking about him. She used poetry to introduce all her students, it was cool.


This was right before the graduates switched their tassels over. The ceremony was in a school theater, and they were in the front row. They turned around to face us and did the switching. That Boy is the very tall one in the middle of the picture.