Tomorrow we travel to Blacksburg, Va for a winter graduation at Virginia Tech, home of the Hokies. The beloved niece has blown through all of her coursework in 3.5 years and is making her escape back to Eastern Virginia, and hopefully a new job.

I’m a little surprised it took me this long to actually ponder what a Hokie is. For some reason, I thought it was a wild bird of some kind that wandered the mountains. Apparently, it comes from an old college cheer, in which invoking the word Hokie is the equivalent of Hooray. That certainly is one of the more interesting college mascot/team names I can think of, although I always thought our local Tufts Jumbos (named after the stuffed circus elephant that you used to be on campus before it got torched) was a really one of the more unique mascots.

Anyway, we are winging our way via Raleigh and heading on to the Tech campus for a few days of celebration, and then back into full Christmas onslaught.

Good work Ginny, and Hooray, (or Hokie) on your graduation with honors!

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