My Reindeer Flies Sideways

Our topic on which to blog today is graduation, which will take place in a few weeks.

Well. Hmm.

I do not plan to take any sort of trip after graduation, until my college orientation session in June. Nor will I attend a wild, raucous party that night and become heavily inebriated. To be honest, all I want to do after graduation is go home, sleep, and not wake up until 7:00 the next morning.

But I'll be spending the night at a school-sponsored overnight party with my classmates, which promises to be interesting at the very least. And prior to the ceremony, my family is hosting a graduation luncheon/party for extended family and a few friends; that will likely be fun.

However, during the ceremony, only one thing will be on my mind. A theme which has dominated my thoughts at the close of each school year since seventh grade and which I feel reflects my hope for the future: the "Sideways Reindeer" song.

This song, which I discovered in an Internet animation at age 13, runs as follows:

My reindeer flies sideways;
Your reindeer flies upside-down.
My reindeer flies sideways;
Your reindeer is dead.
Bum bum bum...
[repeat ad infinitum]

As you've probably guessed, these lyrics are sung to the tune of "Pomp and Circumstance" (aka the Graduation Processional Song). Ever since first hearing the "Sideways Reindeer" song, it's all I can think of when the piano strikes up "P&C" at graduation.

So fare thee well, my high school alma mater. Your reindeer is dead.