You know how sometimes, in the midst of all the insanity that is your Ph.D. program, teaching gig, and social life that keeps you sane (or is supposed to), you somehow have a moment where you feel fate is falling your way, if only for a second?
Yeah, that was today.
You know how great that feeling is, especially the relief that comes with it?
Fantastic. Which, by the way, if you didn't know, is the word of the year. Fantastic.
On a side note, it cracks me up that Firefox identifies contractions as misspelled. But that might be the English nerd in me.
Anyway, I bet your curious as to what happened today. So I guess I'll tell you.
As fate (we'll call it that) would have it, I stopped by Katie, Ryan, and Allyson's office today (if you weren't aware, we have about seven to ten people in our offices), and one of their officemates happened to be in there by the name of Valerie. Now, I have seen Valerie before, and we are actually in the same film class, but our paths had never really crossed until this point. As I was in the office, she introduced herself and pointed out the fact that we have the same class, and she asked me what I was focusing on for my Ph.D. When I said "Shakespeare and Film," well, things just started rolling my way.
Valerie is working in the same area I am, and so she started to tell me a lot about what she does and who she works with. This led to her taking me on a bit of a tour to meet some of the Renaissance faculty, and I finally met Ayanna Thompson, who is one of the faculty members that I hope to work with. She was more than glad to meet me, and she was actually somewhat amazed that she wasn't aware I was at ASU. Apparently I slipped through the cracks.
Now that I've been found, I'm participating in a Renaissance Colloquium and setting up meetings with faculty members to get the ball rolling. Where I didn't have guidance before, I now have some. And that's a great feeling.
Off to more grading for now. I'll post stories later about Louisville, students, and Gizmo.
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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm posting this here so you'll eventually see it: I kept chanting "lower the student loans! they need it the most! just slash the rates, it'll be fine! like a cooing witch. Poppies will make them sleep.
Sleep.
Write more nugguh, I be checkin yo shit every day and ain't nuttin new... or, perhaps, you're busy with all this new news.
still. techmology. transmedia.
Here would be the link alluded to in paragraph one:p
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27437901
Was this too Field like?
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