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Tuesday night, the Empire State Building shone blue in honor of Columbia's 2010 graduates. I didn't take this picture, nor see it...but I felt it. (Thanks New York)   

As the fog in the picture shows, Tuesday was a wet rainy mess.  My graduation gown doubled as a poncho and half my guests sat out in a cold tent and watched the ceremony on a monitor. (Thanks Adam, Sarah, Matt and Lizzy)  

It's all felt pretty amazing to finish up.  I've been anticipating this moment for what feels like soooooo long.  It's also been a bit anticlimactic since, as usual, the end of the semester finished with little deadline after little deadline.  Even after graduation on Tuesday, I had to go up to school yesterday to pass in a final studio assignment.  

I think the moment where I can actually say that everything ended was my walk home from school yesterday.  It was so perfectly, poetically final as I carried with both hands an open-topped cardboard box with my personal belongings from my desk at school (like people do when they get fired).  I got in the elevator, hit the ground floor, and as the doors closed in front of me, all I was missing was a green plant peaking out from the box and a cameraman filming the moment from the other side so it could be replayed in slow-motion later.

I proceeded to go home and fall asleep on the couch to Barefoot Contessa......aaaaaaahhhhhhh.  

Pictures of everything that preceded, here.