Best descriptive line ever.

There was a sound up ahead like someone dismantling a Buick with a crowbar dipped in nitroglycerine.

From one of my X-Men novels. Regarding Wolverine, naturally.

Do you ever have times when you just want to deck your friends?

I have those quite frequently, actually. I really need to get some better friends... So anyway, I went to graduation this morning. Having like five or six friends all graduating at the same time, it seemed the thing to do. It was atrocious. It was severely windy and said wind was very cold. Added to that, the sound system was very poor and had a lot of timing problems. There was a rather noticeable lag between the different speakers, so everything came out overlapped and pretty much completely incomprehensible. So basically, it was a miserable time. It looked like some major rain was coming, so I had to leave about the time they started calling names. Turns out I didn't miss much though, as about a third of the way through they had to finish up and just announce everyone graduated. I am a little bummed to not have been able to have heard my friends' names called, but I did get to talk to some of them at various graduation parties, so that's not so bad.

What really ticks me off, though, is that I'm pretty much the only person of my group of friends (who weren't graduating) that actually went. Well, I'm not angry that they didn't go. I'm angry because one or two of them gave me crap for going. Something about if you're not family and thus obligated, why go, especially when even the people graduating don't usually want to be there. Granted that no one really wants to have to sit through all the boring crap, but I just want to hit my friends who make me feel bad for wanting to be there in support of our graduating friends. *makes various strangling motions*