The last few weeks, in factoids.

It's been a busy few weeks.

• For one, I graduated from college. It's an accomplishment, even though it doesn't necessarily feel like a big one. It at least feels somewhat more imortant than high school graduation. I always wondered about those people who make a huge deal out of their high school graduation (limos, etc.)... at the time I really hoped it wouldn't be the hugest accomplishment of my life.
• Dick Cheney spoke at commencement, and the negative hype didn't amount to much. Cheney's speech was relevant and appropriate and, really, pretty good. I thought it was enjoyable, regardless of how I feel about his political views and actions.
• I said goodbye to a lot of my friends. I'm not actually gone from Provo yet, but I will be in a couple of days, and I've already seen many of them for the last time (for now, anyway). I didn't get emotional at the Convocation, though some did, and it didn't really strike me that I wouldn't see some of these people again until I said goodbye to Jeff and left the Ad Lab for the last time in my college career.
• I packed up all my stuff. I sure have a lot of stuff. You don't realize how much stuff you have until you consider putting it all into a Toyota Corolla. I'm glad I didn't actually have to.
  
• 489 presentations came and went. It was a lot of work, and overall quite a good experience. I've given sufficient props to my group, but that's not going to stop me from doing it again here. Props.
• My parents came out for graduation. They're rad. It reminded me that when I've been married for 29 years I want to be exactly like them.
• My brother got engaged, and I can't express how cool that is.
• I went on a whirlwind trip to New York, to present two campaigns to the Ad Council's Creative Review Committee. It was pretty cool... the committee itself was made of up of important people int the New York advertising world... CEO's and all that. The bummer was that we took a redeye flight to get there, and then a redeye flight to get back the next night. And when the flight left late from JFK and we missed the connecting flight in Vegas and had to wait until the next morning, I was glad I was spending the time with cool people. We had a great time.
• I've become a believer, if I wasn't before, that the Lord is keenly aware of the tiny things that are going on in our lives. He knows our hopes and dreams and He wants us to achieve them, too. He does things on His own timetable for His own reasons. And if we trust in that, He'll make things better for us than we ever could have possibly arranged ourselves.