Graduation

This week I graduated from BYU. On Thursday was the University Commencement. I walked in the processional up to the Marriott Center along with thousands of other happy grads. We heard Elder Christofferson speak as well. Kayleen took me out to eat at Red Robin afterward and we also took some pictures with the tulips on campus. That night Kayleen had a little graduation party for me and a cake. Some of our friends came over and we visited till the late hours of the night. It was very fun!!

On Friday were the college convocations. The Marriott School of Management had its convocation in the evening. We heard from Bill Marriott, the CEO of Marriott International. He gave a very excellent speech. Then we sat through a couple of hours of grads walking across the stage to shake hands with the dean and department heads. They also had a large piece of the Marriott Center basketball floor that Bill Marriott signed along with all of this year's graduates which will be kept in the Tanner Building on campus (where the business school is) as a remembrance of Mr. Marriott coming to our graduation this year!

There are too many pictures that I wanted to post, so I am just posting the link to the picture album on Facebook (most of you are on Facebook anyway but the link doesn't require you to log in to Facebook -- anyone can see it).

Click here for pictures: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2330170&id=17829252&l=34e5a8fdd2

My new favorite toy

This is my new distraction.

I'm trying to concentrate on getting through another final week of school before I graduate. And I'm trying to stay on top of all my work at Squire, which is not easy considering it is an accounting firm and the tax deadline is next week. And I'm thinking about Kayleen's birthday coming up. And getting gifts put together for my wife, mother, and mother-in-law for Mother's Day. And trying to meet my personal goals. And thinking of all the books I want to read.

I don't need a distraction, but there it is all the same. It takes up an hour or two every day that I can't keep myself from playing it, and a lot of lost productivity comes from daydreaming about all the songs and ideas and projects I have in my head now.