19 May 2002
After my bizarre community theatre experience last year, I’m all set to audition on Wednesday for this summer’s musical: Guys & Dolls. I don’t think I’ll have a casting dilemma like last summer in Grease, so now I just have to figure out which part to audition for…
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17 May 2002
End of the school year.
So it’s the day before graduation and most of my students have left. After a number of years in higher education I’ve gotten used to the cycle of people entering and leaving my life, but I’ve had my most successful and fulfilling year working in Res Life and I don’t think it’s quite hit me yet that some of my favorite students won’t be coming back to my building or campus next year.
What’s foremost in my mind these days is the budget crisis in Missouri (I don’t completely understand it, so I may have to have my favorite political ex-Missouri blogger Reese explain it to me). After having Truman’s budget cut $3 million by the state last year (which is a lot for us as one of the smallest public colleges), we’re facing an additional $3.8 million cut for next year. There’s talk of unpaid forced vacation time, etc; so as a 12-month hall director without any students over the summer, I expect I’d be first-in-line to be furloughed over the summer.
12 May 2002
I don’t know which excited my friend Terry more yesterday: that Microsoft is reportedly dropping the price of the XBox (which will probably mean a price cut for my beloved GameCube as well), or that the price of a Taco Bell’s Grilled Stuft Burrito was dropped to $1.99.
9 May 2002
Two links blantantly stolen from boingboing.net:
In Artist’s Freeway Prank, Form Followed Function: Check out this video of the addition an L.A. artist made to an overhead freeway sign. Even cooler than the “High-Profile Sculpture Replacement” prank.
Megachurches as Minitowns: Enormous churches that create “a parallel universe that’s Christianized.” My high school graduation back in Alabama was held in one of those type of churches — it was the only place in town that could seat 4000+ people.