I wonder if I should hold off discussing this past Friday’s Homecoming Parade (my seventh) until I have the pictures uploaded to the website. To be honest, there isn’t very much to report. The four of us who attended — others called off at the last minute or had already agreed to march with other groups — had fun, which is really all that matters. We spent most of the parade trying to get people to cheer for Spam and terrorizing them with my deceptively cute killer rabbit. We shouted, and we were silly, and while some people seemed to appreciate the Hooters girls directly behind us a little too much and a little too loudly, a good time was had by all.

As I said afterwards, “You just have to throw yourself completely into it. And you can’t worry about embarrassing yourself, because that’s really the whole point.”