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Back on Track written @ 12:33 AM on October 04, 2003 Today was remarkable, 100% better than what it started out to be. In fact, I'm probably going to delete that bad entry from earlier in the week because it doesn't even matter anymore. All right, from the top: I pulled off a 98% on my international politics exam, which I wasn't expecting at all. This can only mean that my world domination plans have gotten the A-OK to go into effect as soon as I see fit. Muah-ha-ha! At the TGIT meeting this afternoon (stands for Thank Goodness It's Theater), Joe made his formal announcement that he's stepping down as chair from the department for mostly reasons of health. He did looked awful. He said he's taking the next year off and then returning to the university to teach full time. So then Sandy introduced the two internal university candidates who will be taking over chair next year: the playwriting professor Ken and lighting, sound coordinator Terry, who was my boss during the summer dinner theater. Both presented their views about where they want to take the department and then turned it into a forum, with many students asking decent questions. The way I see it, both of them are quite capable. I'm wondering if there's a way they could be co-chairs. Ken just has this creative passion that permeates through even people he's never been formally introduced to, like me, and Terry would be good with expanding the department and dealing with the business aspects. But to be realistic, I would bet that because Ken has been assistant chair for the past five years, he's more likely to get the position. He's also more charismatic than Terry is, and much more approachable. Like I said, I haven't exactly met Ken before and I worked with Terry all summer and last year-- but Terry still intimidates me, so even I would approach Ken before Terry. Which is sad. I'm sure Terry would be a good chair, but from a realistic stand point, Ken has a leg up. But anyhow... This evening Tricia and I visited a Hindu temple somewhere nearby Eastgate. She had to go for her world religions class, and I tagged along for the hell of it because stuff like that catches my fancy. What a beautiful place. They make you take your shoes off before entering the temple, much like at the Islamic Center we visited in high school, and in the entire width of the room there's this tiled, raised stage with a string of marble Hindu deities with the great Ohm symbol made of Italian crystal in the middle. The statues were human-sized and dressed up in the most brilliant, gorgeous costumes, beads, and jewelry. Before them burned incense, offerings, and flowers. Hindu worshippers in saris sat on Indian carpets and chatted quietly as the priest gave us a tour of the facility and told us about each aspect of the Creator-- you know, Lord Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Sita, Ganesh, etc. It was magical. Everywhere were big signs that read NO PHOTOGRAPHY, which sucked because I would have had something that wasn't mundane to present to my photography class, but oh well. It's actually a feast time of one of the deities now, so there was a special cultural ceremony of sorts this evening. All the Hindu worshippers gathered around a black marble statue-- the name of which was too complicated for me to remember-- and there was this elaborate chanting, the presentation of gifts, and the ringing of bells. It was really neat, actually. Kind of made me want to concentrate on yoga and give up eating cow, you know? I dropped Tricia off at home and returned to the dorms, where I promptly picked up my bookbag and went to work in the darkroom all this evening. After nearly a month of labor, I succeeded in completing my shutter speed assignment! Go me. Take that, evil photography gods, Sam triumphs again! So now that I have essentially no work left to do the rest of the weekend, I can actually take some time off to play. Maybe I'll sleep past ten tomorrow morning. Christine is coming down to visit, so I'll need to devise clever schemes to amuse her in the wasteland that is known as Alexandria, Kentucky. Maybe I'll run a few errands before she comes; I need a full length mirror to pull off this self-portrait I'm working on in my studio. In genealogy news, my second cousin Laurie succeeded in partially cracking a brick wall on my mother's side-- we have just about infiltrated the Ukrainian/Polish line. Mother is coming down tomorrow to see The Crucible, and when she does she's giving me the papers and Laurie's notes. I love an early Christmas. All in all, I'm back on track and fulling prepared to take on life again. Think I'll go shower now...
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