Super Nerd Style

Aw yeah! This announcement was posted on my schools web site:

Quidditch Club Meeting
10/01/2008
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Max Mutchnick Campus Center
Lower Level 2, Skybox
Free

There will be a meeting of all members of the Emerson Community interested in joining the Emerson College Quidditch Club.

Sponsored by Athletics.

How cute is that!?! Harry Potter Fans Unite. This is the email I sent in response to the contact person:

What if I really want to join the Quidditch team but I don't have a broom? Also, do you allow graduate students?

Cheers,

Laura

And just in case anyone thinks I'm joking, I'm not. I will play this sport!

Impressive and Totally Bizarre

The set of Will and Grace now lives encased in glass in the library where I go to school. I walk by it on my way to the "quiet study area" (Emerson student are not naturally a quiet bunch). I am simultaneously delighted and disturbed by it's presence. Here is what the officials have to say:

A permanent exhibit of the set of the path-breaking NBC television comedy Will & Grace, the first network series with a gay principal character from the outset, has been installed at Emerson College, which offers academic programs in communication and the arts. The set was gift to the college from alumnus Max Mutchnick, co-creator and executive producer of the series and a college Trustee.

Mutchnick is one of the numerous Emerson graduates prominent in the entertainment industry. Others include Kevin Bright, executive producer of Friends an also a college Trustee, actors Denis Leary and Henry Winkler, producers Norman Lear (All in the Family) and Vin Di Bona (America's Funniest Home Videos), and talk show host Jay Leno.

The iconic set, depicting an upscale New York City apartment inhabited by Will Truman and Grace Adler, is located in the Emerson College Library, near the school's media collection. Space for the display was created in the library as part of a multi-level "light well" project that created additional study spaces on the 4th, 5th and 6th floors of the Walker Building. The Will & Grace set is located on the 3rd floor. The project has added approximately 2,000 square feet of library space.

"The Library's new spaces were designed in response to requests from students for more quiet study space, more group study rooms and improved media viewing facilities," explained the Library's Executive Director Robert Fleming. "Filling in the light well in the Walker Building allowed us to add 80 new study seats and to reunite the Library's print and media collections, so that all of our materials, regardless of format, are available under one roof. I hope that having the Will & Grace set in the Library will inspire current students to imagine what they might accomplish in the future."

The Wagon

I assumed that grad school would inspire me to write on my blog a lot and any prediction made the first week would be hasty, but at this point, I'm not so sure. They're giving me a lot of stuff to do. But if its any consolation for you, know that I have enjoyed spending the last few days reading Hemingway, Updike, and Chekhov. That's right friends, I am loving, reading Dead White Men. Some of those dudes are brilliant and I say bring them on.

Yes the stereotypes are true, all the boys in my lit class really do have big boners for James Joyce. But who cares? If sitting through 10-20 minutes of their wanking is necessary for me to get this education I don't mind. You know why? Cause right now, I'm getting paid to read and think. Yesterday I sat in a chair across from strangers and read for hours in the Emerson library and that was me bring productive. Did I mention I love grad school so far? Cause I do.

I can't wait for next week in my lit class. One of the conundrums the professor already threw at us was "...sometimes Chekhov's writing wasn't always Chekhovian."

OMG

DISCUSS.

Man Love So Tender

i love this picture of mccain snuggling up to papa bear!

Stop Playing Those Games

Hanging in the Balance

My brother Matt moved out on Monday bringing the human/animal ratio back to 1:1. I have rechristened 10 Salman "Womantown" (although its only the Mass chapter) because after 28 long years, the boys have finally left the building.

Matt's giant black labrador, Bailey, will be staying here and we've been taking hikes together at Hale Reservation. Emerson's two day graduate orientation starts tomorrow and classes begin on Monday. Wish me luck I finish all of the boring loan and bill stuff I have been putting off all summer today.