John Legend, I love you.

Tomorrow's Commencement for Penn's Class of 2009 is preceded by the myriad graduations for the individual schools of the University.  Graduation for the School of Arts and Sciences (the College, for those "in the know") was held tonight.  The only reason I risked ruining the enigma of a Penn graduation a year prior to my own expected graduation date is because John Legend was the speaker.  So I went because, well, I lurve John Legend.  For reals, for reals.    Sadly, he did not sing.  And though it would have been ridiculous if he had, I still had a more than faint glimmer of hope that he would.
Look at all those bottles of water under the students' chairs.  Now I know where my tuition money is going.

Johnny Boy gave a pretty sweet speech.  But honestly, I can't remember about 2/3 of the inspirational things he said.  I do remember that the crux of his speech functioned on finding the truth in the world, but somehow the last part of his speech transformed from a celebratory homage to the graduates to a condemnation of the Bush administration and a commentary on the waning economy and housing market.  It was relevant, yet kind of weird and preachy.  But whatever, he's still my homeboy. 

If you look closely, you can see that the closed captioning under the image of John Legend speaking says something about insomnia.  Yeah, I don't remember ever hearing that word.