Graduation Brunch: The Park, Sunday, mid-morning to mid-afternoon

[loverlyviolets]

A banner, the letters wrapped with fresh spring flowers, hung from the trees, spelling out CONGRATULATIONS, CLASS OF 2009! No missing letters or anything.

Spread out across the park were plenty of tables and chairs, some under the shade of picnic shelters, some out on the grass in the sunshine. For those who felt like getting back to nature, there were even red and white checked blankets spread out in a few areas for old-fashioned picnic-y goodness. Lack of ants not guaranteed.

The long table that ran along next to the picnic shelters was laden with a vast moddable array of traditional brillig-y food, including fruit, veggie snacks, breakfast pastries, sandwiches for the especially hungry or those who arrived more toward the unch end of brunch, and a wide variety of J,GoB-catered desserts. Drinks included coffee, tea, juices and soft drinks, and while there were plates provided, there were also wee picnic-basket-shaped trays for carrying things back to your seat, wherever that might be.

A space had been cleared for dancing, if people cared to do more than just listen to the light music being played through the speakers, and there was also an area set aside for outdoor games of croquet, horseshoes, or frisbee.

Everybody's welcome. Come celebrate with the Class of '09!

[OOC: Wait for the OCD. Don't make Eliza Doolittle have to cut a bitch. OPEN! And no one had to get cut! It's a good day!]

Comments

Re: Mingling

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

"Why? Sneak up on you?"

She herself couldn't wait for high school to end, but that tended to be the case when you were only in it to finish it in the first place.

Re: Mingling

[withoutverona]

"In its way," Romeo assented. "It felt like it was months away, and then all of a sudden it was prom, then exams, then today." He shrugged a little, mostly at his own foolishness. "How is college?"

Re: Mingling

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

"Grinding," said Adah, after a moment to consider the best adjective out of a small list.

Re: Mingling

[withoutverona]

Romeo sucked in his breath through his teeth. "That bad?"

Re: Mingling

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

Adah smiled a little. "Bad? I'm taking extra courses just to get it to that point, and I'm still doubting whether I'm challenged enough."

Re: Mingling

[withoutverona]

"I'm told one can graduate even without being crushed bodily under the weight of one's books," Romeo suggested, smirking a tiny bit. "Are you happy, then, in being ground down?"

Re: Mingling

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

"Happy enough," Adah said. "It'll be better now that most of the simpleton prerequisite stuff is out of the way and I can start in on something close to real work. I'm one of the top in my class and people have stopped joking about my ambitions for med school as something I just say to impress future doctor husbands."