Graduated
Posted on | May 20, 2005 | 3 Comments
We’re down to the wire — our daughter graduates from high school next week. The weather better cooperate–the event is being held at the local concert pavilion. The graduates will be okay; they’ll be under the canopy. We’ll be sitting on the hillside, though. If it rains, it’s gonna get ugly!
Afterward, the school is holding a lock-in. I’m going to be dealing blackjack from 10 pm until 5 am. Whoo-hee! They have thousands of dollars worth of prizes as an incentive to keep them off the streets the night of graduation, a tradition that has been going on here for nearly two decades.
Not much news today, so I’ll try selling something instead. I won a signed Song of Susannah poster at the Simon & Schuster message boards, and I don’t have any place to hang it up. Rather than leave it curled inside a cardboard tube for the rest of eternity, I thought I’d auction it off on eBay. Framed and matted, it would look nice on any collector’s wall, and the fact that it bears a verified King autograph in this day and age of mass forgeries is a plus!
Today it will be 91 degrees. Summer has arrived.
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Bev Vincent is the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award.
His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, From the Borderlands and The Blue Religion. He is a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine and a member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews.
May 20th, 2005 @ 11:19 am
i hate you right now… just thought you should know that.
we finally hit the 50′s this week but haven’t seen the sun for the last two… today we have sunshine AND mid-50′s… i think i’ll go sit in the treehouse…
…still waiting for Spring…
May 20th, 2005 @ 11:32 am
Thanks for letting me know! I gotta keep track of those who hate and despise me.
May 20th, 2005 @ 11:57 am
yeah, but i’m over it now… there’s birds singing =)