All's Well That Ends Well

[cornerofmadness]

Today started off very wrong footed. I get to the gym for the college fair and ask the ladies running it, where should I set up. We're over at the back by the bleachers, just look for the department name tag. I'm over there looking and there ISN'T one. They come racing over to me and says 'You didn't RSVP, you can't be here.'

I whipped around and said I've RSVPed because how the hell else did my dean and chair know I was coming. Well we didn't get it. I'm not leaving people so adjust. B.S. from the business dept says share my table. The coordinators are like no. hey go over there. WHERE? you mean that one lonely table off i n the corner? There are TWO DOZEN Universities here and you're telling me you don't want the home team SCIENCE DEPT, you know the place all the pre-meds want, to be here. I'm sitting HERE next to business. You better find me a chair.

I put all my models all over that table. I'm not going anywhere bitches. They brought my chair. Our new president and the provost stop at my table, shake my hand (our new president was an OH representative) THey ask, Dana, where's your sign for your department? They told me I didn't RSVP. THe provost wasn't amused because he knows that science (especially our chair) are some of the most involved and responsive group. He also knows we're always getting excluded.

And honestly I should have just packed up and gone home. No one stopped to talk to me except one really strange young man (and that's ME saying it). He raced up to me and I was all excited that someone wanted to talk science but no, he's a gem freak and I was wearing a black opal ring and a large moonstone pendant. He was FASCINATED by them. SO here I am talking jewelry with this kid. (who asked me to draw him a map to the renn fest where I got them both) but that's not the weird part.

He pulls out of his pocket packets of gems he's purchased online and proceeds to show me all of them and ramble endlessly. He was over the moon when I recognized the piece of green obsidian and spoke of the Aztec heart-harvesting use of them. He is hugely excited by Mesoamerican and south American indigenous historical tribes and out of his pocket comes a folded piece of paper covered in Nasca line representations and he starts in on them.

He didn't leave me alone until they called his school to start the tour. He needs to go into a story somewhere.


Afterwards I went to Jackson and to the Spot on Main my coffee shop hang out and tried a piece of Salted Maple Pie mostly because I never had it. I liked the crust because it reminded me of Grandma's and it was like pecan pie, good but now that I've had it, I don't need more (Pie is my weakness) But I had a tad too much coffee today which upset my stomach.

So by the time I met my friend TH for dinner at the smokehouse (because L wasn't there, she's a vegetarian and I'm sure not a single veggie is served here, oh there's taters and salad....smothered in meat). He loved it but I could b arely eat because my tummy hurt.

From there we went to heard James A Willis do a ghost of Ohio talk. I thought it would be an hour but it was two and he's a great speaker. Better yet, he's looking for ghost hunting volunteers. Crosses fingers I get accepted onto the team!! He had some techniques I've not seen before but would be perfect for my novel These Haunted Hills

Speaking of ghost hunting, I'm not doing the one in Marietta, sold out but that's okay with me too.