Harvard commencement
Jun. 5th, 2003 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidI left home about half an hour later than I should've given that it's Harvard graduation today. There are so many people out on the streets around the Yard, families and guests in their dressed-up clothing converging on Harvard Yard, queueing up to get inside. There are also lots of people in a variety of gowns striding along, making it look more like some English college town, black gowns for the undergraduates, deep red ones for graduates. Some of the red ones have black (velvet?) bands on the sleeves; I didn't see any hoods on yet (that would bring back memories indeed).
I'm reminded of how odd our weather is compared to the typical June: usually people are already sweltering, and today it is cool and overcast, with rain forecasted.
Traffic was horrible, so I got far too much time to see a demonstration outside the Yard. I found out that apprently gays are horrible, that AIDS is their punishment, that the Supreme Court is a 'fag court' (the guy carrying this sign was ever-so-impressively dragging a large US flag on the ground... I thought jerks like this would avoid that), and that 9/11 was a good thing (WTF????), etc. I don't know what group they were with, or what their justifications were. They were marching, and people were pretty much ignoring them, which I suppose is the best possible outcome.
I'm reminded of how odd our weather is compared to the typical June: usually people are already sweltering, and today it is cool and overcast, with rain forecasted.
Traffic was horrible, so I got far too much time to see a demonstration outside the Yard. I found out that apprently gays are horrible, that AIDS is their punishment, that the Supreme Court is a 'fag court' (the guy carrying this sign was ever-so-impressively dragging a large US flag on the ground... I thought jerks like this would avoid that), and that 9/11 was a good thing (WTF????), etc. I don't know what group they were with, or what their justifications were. They were marching, and people were pretty much ignoring them, which I suppose is the best possible outcome.