It is just hard let this one go.... While all the other grown-ups at graduation politely shunned the girl with a stuffed squirrel mounted on her mortar board, I could not ignore it. In fact, I was hypnotized. While the Lt. Gov. Elect was speaking and it was my job to capture all his wisdom in one shot, I constantly looked backward at the bobbing rodent as it's puppet master talked to her nearby friend. All I really wanted to do was to ask the girl with the rat hat why she chose to wear this varmit today. I imagined her answer to be squirrelly like: "This was my grandpa's pet squirrel 'Frisky' and I promised him when he died I would take him everywhere with me. Or perhaps, "I am a biology major and I am concerned with the recent death of the family Sciuridae. I never got the chance to ask the Graduate but I hope to god she has a good story. Otherwise, I pity her because she is going to end up just like me...
