WHEEEE!!!

*bounces*

I got into next semester's fiction class! I got in, I got in, I got in! *dances all around the room* This is the fiction equivalent of this semester's poetry class, so yeah, pretty difficult to get into. It's the one I was agonizing over last week. WHEEEE!!!

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In other news, we did the ballroom workshops for the entire campus today. (Our 18th president is getting inagurated tomorrow, so this weekend is devoted to festivities. This afternoon was "Hands On Knox County," where everybody did some sort of presentation-type thing, taught a class, or whatever.) We taught Samba and Salsa for the inagural ball tomorrow night, to which everyone, including students, is invited. I was a little wary of teaching Samba, since it's the hardest Latin dance and second hardest ballroom dance, period (International Foxtrot is the hardest...but it's so much fun!), but it worked out really quite well. Most people seemed to get everything. And professors came! Sergei, the head of the English department, stayed for the entire two hours. It was great.

And then Whtiney, Chandra, Ellen, Meg and I just had a dress-up session for the inagural ball. I'm gonna just wear my old prom dress, I think (it's the one I wore to SC2K2), since it's elegant, but not long enough to make me feel weird dancing latin. There's going to be an Afro-Cuban jazz band, so they'll be playing mostly cha-cha, merengue, salsa, samba, etc. The band sounds really cool, actually...they're a twelve-piece group, with flutes and trombones and things. I'm very excited about the whole thing.

Illuminatus!

We had the illumination of Old Kenyon in honor of our new president's inaguration tonight. Old Kenyon is a dorm, and is also the first/oldest building on campus (1826, rebuilt using many of the original stones in 1950 because of fire). Anyway, the windows facing Middle Path/the rest of campus were all illuminated at once from in the rooms, and transpaent gels spelled out "Welcome Georgia Nugent." Turning them all on at once was a touch anti-climactic; I was expecting one at a time, and multiple colors, instead of simply purple letters. But then the Chamber Singers and the crowd sang the most well-known of Kenyon's four school songs, "Kokosing Farewell", which is always beautiful.

At any rate, aside from the weirdness of all the lights coming on at once, it was appropriately historical and even a touch awe-inspiring. It was certainly pretty when it was all said and done, and actually ringing the bell in Old Kenyon's steeple was great. I don't remember ever hearing it before.

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Since I got into fiction and don't feel like I'd be jinxing myself, here's what I submitted, for those who aren't on my friends list and/or didn't read it the first time around:

( Ghosting )