Chapter 1551 Crazy Pleasures In The Dark:>Ep89

• Graduation Moves
• The second Saturday in December, between the last class and the first exam, is devoted to the ritual of graduation. All tenured faculty is expected to attend in their full regalia. The exalted folks who occupied endowed chairs were expected to sit in front in their finest and most colorful medieval attire, since their very colorful presence obviously convinced the folks who paid their princely salary that their child's education was worth it.
• Jorge's ceremonial garb, from a Spanish university where members of the faculty made a name for themselves seeking the truth and reading souls during the Spanish Inquisition, was one of the most complex and colorful. His regal status was signified by an awkward chain around his neck, a rough-hewn walking staff which gave him slivers, and the mini-throne which was wheeled into the gym to hold his exalted behind in the front row of the faculty, in a place of prominence. (All this was required under the terms of his endowment.) The result was that the man was pinned down like a large, gaudy butterfly on public display, trying to look intelligent and interested, without taking a bathroom break during about four hours of boring speeches that mattered only to the people making them. Plus the reading of each graduate's name as they walked across the stage.