Train late and my graduation late

Yesterday my train was an hour late. I got fine to Tampere but from there on it was first kind of unknown whether the next train would leave or be replaced by buses. I was like "oh no". I actually said that out loud when the conductor made the announcement in the train. The good thing was that I happened to go on the same train as these friends of mine who were returning from their vacation. So we went to the restaurant car and I got to listen to stories of their vacation. I think the train stood at Orivesi for almost an hour but that didn't really matter since I was having a good time in the restaurant car. Had I not taken the same train I'm sure I would have gotten bored to death and as it happens all the earlier trains were replaced by buses. I think ours was the first one to go since the afternoon. See the engine of a cargo train had gone off the tracks at some point between Tampere and Jyväskylä and that was causing the problems. No-one had gotten hurt or anything but they did have to haul the engine somewhere after they had investigated as to why it happened. But I got home alright in the end - a little bit later than I had hoped but in good spirits (in more ways than one). But fun trip all in all and I'm glad I was lucky enough to meet up with friends.

I've been trying to get myself officially graduated today but it's quite difficult since like everyone is on vacation. I don't really know when I'll be graduated and where the hold-up is and well I don't know who to ask about it since all the people I could ask about it are on holiday. Like the lady that I would have to take my theses to get put into books is on vacation till next month and the person who I think needs to sign some papers to make the graduation official is also on vacation. But yeah, I guess it is expected. There were also hardly any people at lunch. I just want to get this whole graduation business out of the way soon but it seems I might have to wait a while still.

I had a rather good weekend. It was fun hanging out with the family. I'm going back this week and I'm hoping the weather will be good. I might be going to see a jazz concert on Saturday. But more on that later.