Steve's the same way...could care less about the actual ceremony. But I want to see it and I want the jedis to see it...I think they'll remember it all their days...and his mom wants to see it too.
And I'm hoping seeing the celebration will help heal this animosity I have. I have animosity toward the advisor, toward the paper it's self, toward the secretary...I don't like having animosity. It's a waste of time. It's disruptive to my joy.
If that makes any sense at all! LOL!
SirKit did his Masters and PhD in four years, right out of undergrad school; we didn't have any kids yet. Paul wasn't born until the third year of his Grad School years, so we didn't have to wait too long for him to be finished. The graduation ceremony wasn't until the third week in August, and he had to be at Purdue just a few days later. He actually finished everything up a week or two before graduation, and we wanted to spend some time visiting with our families on the trip to Indiana, so we opted for ditching the graduation.