I graduated from Citizens’ Police Academy last night. We had a nice little ceremony, complete with honor guard and speeches. The retinue on the stage included chiefs and captains and chaplains from the department. The CPA organizer wore his police uniform, the first time we’d seen him in blue. And armed. We paraded up to the stage and received our certificates, were photographed (not mug shots, either) and that was it. The Alumni Association had a reception for us afterward. The entire 11-week course was very pleasant and informative, and I’ll probably volunteer to do things for the alumni and HPD from time to time, just to keep my hand in.
My wife took a picture or two during the ceremony. If I don’t look like a deer about to be struck by the headlights, I’ll post one after I download them from the camera.
I’m past the 50K point on the novel-in-progress and am 5K words ahead of schedule for NaNoWriMo, with 31650 words to date for the month. My Storytellers Unplugged essay, posted this morning, is called NaNo Redux, and talks about how I tricked myself into writing a book this month. Being Canadian, I still can’t shake the feeling that I should be writing Nanaimo instead of NaNoWriMo.
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