I'm Your Candy Man

Partly in protest over our ridiculous robes and partly in protest of the MAC program in general, I decided to try and have as much fun as possible at this year's commencement ceremony. This year our wonderful fashion designers envisioned a glorious black garment with an absurd(ly hard to configure) hood clad in black with brown suede trim and a light blue and white striped interior which would be turned partly inside out to reveal a nightmarish kaleidoscope.

However, the best part of the outfit involved the sleeves. Hanging from the end of the sleeves of our all black robes were what I can best describe as "fabric tubes" sewn together at the end to create a whimsical "flipper" effect. To be more descriptive, if one were to slide one's hands to the bottom of said tubes you would look strikingly like a penguin.

So what purpose do these "fabric tubes" serve? Absolutely none... for everyone else. However, I felt that the best course of action was to fill said tube/flippers with candy: chocolate candies in the left, fruit candies in the right. Because I mean, hey... who doesn't love candy?

Needless to say I spent the better part of the afternoon prior to the ceremony passing out candy to the siblings/cousins/kids of the graduates as well as my fellow graduates themselves. After the first round most people came back for another "fix." It was awesome having people come up and say, "what do ya got?" And in a hush-hush voice responding, "everything baby, chocolate or fruit, what's your pleasure?"

Thankfully all of the chocolate candy got eaten before it got too hot and turned my left tube/flipper into a saggy dripping sac of sugar and cocoa. The highlight was David's cousins referring to me as "Candy Man." I suppose that was really what I was going for all along. But after the candy-sleeves, the rest of the ceremony was pretty much a let down... albeit the old-timey bluegrass band was quite hilarious and the fountain of liquid chocolate was gloriously excessive.

Here here to being done with school forever!