I have academicals!
Jul. 8th, 2004 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlI went up to Queens to pick up my academicals and pay the exorbitant graduation fee. I saw the morning gradates coming out of the Whitla, all the BA's (possibly) with their red and fur hoods. That'll be me tomorrow! As I was walking to the train station along Botanic, there was a man singing Yesterday, accompanying himself on a guitar, and doing it rather well too. He stopped rather abruptly when a couple of police appeared, which makes me think he didn't have a busker's liscence.
I swanned about the house in my gown and hood feeling like Harriet Vane or Snape or Hermione by turns. And now I know first hand what Harriet meant about her struggles with her hood. The thing is a device of torture. One can button it down on to the jacket (it has a little toggle beneath the point for the purpose), but I am only wearing a shirt which isn't sufficiently heavy to anchor the whole hood. I got some safety pins in the village so it should be okay.
I do have a short skirt after all, the one belonging to my suit. I used to say when I bought that suit at seventeen that I would graduate in it, and now I am!
The strapped shoes (Mary Janes I think Americans call them?) which I wear with the suit didn't work; they made me look exactly like Hermione with short hair, so now I am wearing Mam'a sandals that look the same as the ones she graduated in thiry years ago! Unfortunately they are navy, with the black gown, but that can't be helped now.
We took some photos on the front lawn under the chestnut tree and on the other side of the garden by the old byre, in front of the hydrangea bushes. Hopefully they'll come out, but we're hedging our bets by using all the cameras.
I swanned about the house in my gown and hood feeling like Harriet Vane or Snape or Hermione by turns. And now I know first hand what Harriet meant about her struggles with her hood. The thing is a device of torture. One can button it down on to the jacket (it has a little toggle beneath the point for the purpose), but I am only wearing a shirt which isn't sufficiently heavy to anchor the whole hood. I got some safety pins in the village so it should be okay.
I do have a short skirt after all, the one belonging to my suit. I used to say when I bought that suit at seventeen that I would graduate in it, and now I am!
The strapped shoes (Mary Janes I think Americans call them?) which I wear with the suit didn't work; they made me look exactly like Hermione with short hair, so now I am wearing Mam'a sandals that look the same as the ones she graduated in thiry years ago! Unfortunately they are navy, with the black gown, but that can't be helped now.
We took some photos on the front lawn under the chestnut tree and on the other side of the garden by the old byre, in front of the hydrangea bushes. Hopefully they'll come out, but we're hedging our bets by using all the cameras.
