Commissioner’s College was awesome, although it left me exhausted. Tecumsa shared a house with Mon Valley and so it was decorated for Halloween (I wonder how we’ll decorate next year?). We had tombstones, all kinds of lights, pumpkins, witches, people in costumes, it was a good time. My first two classes were absolutely horrible but the other four were really good, so all in all, not too bad. I saw all three rangers and a few people from camp (Chris and Al), so it was nice to catch up with all of them.
Friday night, one of the two Tom’s fell out of bed while shifting in his sleep. His entire matress flipped off his bed and he almost landed in mine. Mark and I bolt up from our beds to see if he was ok. He was, just a bit disoriented, and we all went back to sleep. Granted, I had a really hard time sleeping, as my bed was between the two loudest snorers. The second night I ended up dragging my mattress to the classroom across the hall and slept on the floor there.
Saturday night, the cracker barrel was in the houses and everyone went house hopping. Except at the beginning our house hosted the entire conference in a discussion of the new Centennial Quality Unit Awards. So everyone crowded into our house while we played host, but thankfully, we had a lot of food: sloppy joes, pulled pork sandwiches, cookies, chips, nut rolls, apricot rolls, two veggie trays, a fruit tray, an entire pineapple, two trays of cheese and crackers, three loaves of banana-nut bread (one with chocolate chips) and 12 loaves of pizza bread.
The one thing that did suprise me though was how rude a few of the participants were (and of course, I kept having sessions with those same people). Oh well, at least they aren’t in my district.
President Bush official accepted the invitation and will the SVC’s commencement speaker. If you’re interested, you can see the announcement video at SVC’s webpage, notice how Mr. Donohue, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, let me remind you…the Chairman of the Board of Directors, does not know the name of the school. He always says "Saint Vincent’s" instead of "Saint Vincent." A small, but important distinction, especially when dealing with branding issues.
One very disconcerting rumor floating around is that next year, all the Prefects at SVC (R. A.’s to the rest of the world) will be required to go to Mass every week. It’s becoming very scary some of the changes happening and little personal freedoms keep disappearing….and what I would like to know is, does that mean all the prefects have to be Catholic, what if they are Jewish, Muslim, or, heaven-forbid, Protestant? And of course, the logistics of the whole situation, will there be cards to fill out like Grove City College? What if they go to Mass at home? Does it have to be Sunday/Saturday evening Mass? What if they are on a retreat? So many questions, and so many bad implications.
On a better note, rumor has it that Coke will be brining back Vanilla Coke and taking away Black Cherry Vanilla Coke. There wasn’t a huge difference, but I like the plain Vanilla Coke a bit better. Some improvements around the site, working with the calendar and a few other things, still fighting with a lot of stuff behind the scenes, but things are getting done (even if they look messy for a bit).
One last thing, if you haven’t already, take a few minutes to vote for the New 7 Wonders of the World, so far there have been over 32 million votes worldwide and the announcement day (7/7/7) is quickly approaching!
