{"id":1535,"date":"2002-06-10T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-10T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2002\/06\/10\/1535\/"},"modified":"2021-04-12T11:14:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T19:14:30","slug":"1535","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2002\/06\/10\/1535\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>My first remote update! I am at GSP. It is planning week. I am in List-Making-Mode.\n<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s the smells that set off my memory, and the strongest of those memories, weirdly, are of this week last year, rather than GSP proper. Maybe it&#8217;s because that&#8217;s when I first encountered these smells&#8211;the same way the smell (odor? miasma?) of Nevin still reminds me of my five weeks there during <i>my<\/i> GSP, instead of my whole freshman year.\n<\/li>\n<li>Same floor. Same room. Six dumb flights of stairs or the bitchy elevator. And the lights don&#8217;t work as well this year.\n<\/li>\n<li>But! I get to practice saying &#8220;Sixth Todd&#8221; as all one syllable again.\n<\/li>\n<li>I got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdnow.com\/cgi-bin\/mserver\/SID=509112256\/pagename=\/RP\/CDN\/FIND\/album.html\/ArtistID=JOHNSON*JACK\/ITEMID=1498375\">Brushfire Fairytales<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdnow.com\/cgi-bin\/mserver\/SID=509112256\/pagename=\/RP\/CDN\/FIND\/album.html\/artistid=DIRTY+VEGAS\/itemid=1551275\">Dirty Vegas<\/a>. Both are really good, although I think I like the former better. (Jon, let me know if you want me to burn you a copy of the second. Just to try before you buy, ofcourse.)\n<\/li>\n<li>I shouldn&#8217;t say this, because Kim and Taylor will probably read it, but I don&#8217;t think it really matters now. Last year&#8217;s campus director was named Laura. This year&#8217;s director of seminar is a different Laura. The first one is about as gone as you can get, but every time someone mentions the second Laura by name, I shudder involuntarily.\n<\/li>\n<li>The new campus director is named Joe, and he&#8217;s kickass, awesome, right on. I&#8217;ve been looking forward to working with him since the retreat in April, and so far it&#8217;s every bit as good as I&#8217;d hoped.\n<\/li>\n<li>I loved our staff last year, and I would have been happy to see any of them return. Not many of us did&#8211;some by choice, some not so much. But the few who did come back&#8230; well, if you&#8217;re reading this and you didn&#8217;t make it this year, don&#8217;t take this the wrong way: again, I loved you all. But Erin, Mooch, Jimmy and Caudill are the ones I would have picked if I&#8217;d had four choices, and they&#8217;re all back, and that makes me really happy.\n<\/li>\n<li>But.\n<\/li>\n<li>B Rich and Harney would have been in my picks too, except I knew they were going to be head RAs last year anyway. And they&#8217;re brilliant and exactly right for the job, and it&#8217;s going to be a good time, with them around.\n<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s simply no comparison to draw between them and the people who had those jobs last year. Not just apples and oranges, but, like, apples and tungsten.\n<\/li>\n<li>So it&#8217;s not that I miss last year&#8217;s head RAs because I want them doing the job again. It&#8217;s that Emma and Drew were my friends, and now that I&#8217;m here again, with these smells and that room and those memories, I miss them so much it&#8217;s like a knife in my side.\n<\/li>\n<li>That said. It&#8217;s going to be a good six weeks.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first remote update! I am at GSP. It is planning week. I am in List-Making-Mode. It&#8217;s the smells that set off my memory, and the strongest of those memories, weirdly, are of this week last year, rather than GSP proper. 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