For those of you who went out and about today, you noticed the weather was a bit odd (and to my liking). There was clouds, then heat, then drizzle, then heat, then thunder, rain, and supposedly hail, and then it was pretty cool. Not so much a freak storm because it wasn’t powerful enough to be a storm, but it was definitely like some god sneezed over campus or something.

If anything, I love that smell of weather. I was at the Campus Events office taking this all in by myself, just hanging out on the computer and messing with the template for upcoming portfolio simplification/redesign listening to the weather.

I really love that room, with all its history and character. It’s got so many signed posters from movie stars, bands, speakers… old events calendars from the 90s that name bands coming to campus that I’ve never heard of… some things are aging and I have no connection with… but then there’s the two or three that are in a row that I have a direct connection with and either helped with or was around for and it’s something I can be proud of.

Plus the building is old. Kerckhoff has that worn, collegiate feel about it, and I’m trying not take it for granted. In comparison to the sterile hotel I live in and the day-in, day-out sameness of classes, it is refreshing to have the Campus Events office. Plus, it has this amazing balcony area that overlooks all of Bruinwalk and Ackerman, with a ladder up to the very top of Kerckhoff.

Just sitting in there and reflecting on stuff and the great group of people that is CEC pleased me a lot. I thought about the people applying that I rejected because it seemed like they were just trying to get another thing for their resume… that’s not what CEC is, and that’s why they don’t get this opportunity.

I open every interview welcoming people to our storied room, telling the quiet kids how one could spend so much time just looking at every sticker, every ad, every piece of free swag we have to give away. They look up and around, and eager to get to the interview I’m sure what I say about the room doesn’t have much merit. I’m still trying to get over the fact that these little ones aren’t the same as the people they are replacing. The seniors that I have become so fond of grew into who they are, but it is hard to imagine them not there.

As I gear up for my new position, I realize that I’ll be spending a great deal more time in this room, on that balcony, and generally on campus dealing with executives and marketing directors and Event Services and coordinating people and figuring out how to spend my weekly stipend of $37.50 … It’s nice to have a comfortable spot to go to.