365: Gala Night

Tonight was my department's spring gala to celebrate our spring interns and graduates. I was asked to be a "commencement" speaker at the event which was nice and fun. They gave me a thank you note and a cool stone coaster as a thank you gift. We had 51 students interning this semester--so many it was hard to get them all in a picture and impossible to get them all looking at the cameras at the same time! I did a quick panorama snap and called it a day. Yay for new young professionals!

Pretty Little Flower

Every spring this little lonely daffodil raises it's little head out of the piles of leaves I refuse to rake in the fall. It only lives for a few weeks (mostly because I suck at anything gardening related and don't do anything to encourage life), but every year it makes me happy to see it. It seems like it springs out of nowhere and all of a sudden I'm like "Oh hello little flower! I've missed you!" This usually means spring is right around the corner. This came up about two weeks ago so I'm hoping that means I'll have a warm sunny birthday.