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Another story that makes me proud of Simmons: http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/05/15/a_mothers_sacrifice_turns_to_graduating_daughters_joy/ . A mother and daughter had commencement ceremonies on the same day, so Mom gave up walking in Vermont to be there for her daughter in Boston. Unbeknownst to her or the rest of the family the daughter wrote a speech about the sacrifices her Mom made, making it possible for her to go to school. Daughter was selected to give the speech at the commencement, and when she got her diploma the ceremony was stopped, Mom was called up from the audience, and *she* was given her diploma from her college in VT. How sweet!

Music of a Bygone Era: http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/05/15/playing_music_of_a_bygone_era/ . This article is about a show in Lexington over Memorial Day weekend featuring music of WWII. I grew up listening to this and seeing the strong patriotism of that time through Peggy, my old dance teacher and as such, I have great fondness for this type of music. I never had thought of how this time was the last when music would be created for War not in protest. Now we have little music created in times of war. Is that because for most of us the war isn't so real, or doesn't impact our daily lives anymore? What's changed in our society?

PS, you may need to sign up for a free membership on the site to read the articles. This is a new Boston.com thing apparently.

SW pics

There are some pics of me in this slide show (Traci, you're in one too):
http://southofboston.net/specialreports/

Some pics from our charity premiere: http://501neg.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=317

And later I should be able to share some pics of me in the ANH Leia dress AND a Scout costume

In other news

I got my ballet costume yesterday. Its PINK and we're wearing white tights with it. I headed to Dancer's Image in Newton (love having a dance store nearby) to get the tights, and later in the day headed out to find a strapless, low back bra to wear with the thing. Freddy's doesn't sell the particular style anymore that I was looking for, VS had none, I ended up finding one in Lady Grace. I don't shop their often but they definitely have the functional weird bra thing going for them. Also, being fitted/helped by a little old lady that could be your grandmother is kind of nice. She asked what studio I was dancing with and nodded with recognition when I mentioned Peggy McGlone. When ringing me up she mentioned that she'd say "break a leg", but she said that to her granddaughter recently who then soon after had a set dropped on her foot (and had to go out and perform a lead role with a broken foot). So she wished me luck. The bra was on sale, so cheaper than what Freddy's was selling it for in the catalog. It fits PERFECTLY with the costume (I tried them on together.

Since the rain didn't come we finally planted our herbs yesterday. I think we may want to put more plants in there, they are pretty spaced out. Also, our cilantro and dill didn't fare too well sitting outside. Our strawberry plants had a similar fate (they are planted over near our Dagobah tree) but they are supposed to be hardy and kind of take over the yard as far as I knew. We'll see what happens, hopefully I won't have to replace any/too many of them.

It was supposed to rain today but thus far its looking pretty nice out. Here's hoping that it keeps, since we'll be in SW costumes passing out water to the returning riders at the Brain Tumor Research charity ride over at Waltham Woods this afternoon. There will only be 3 of us but hey, every bit counts!