Huggins

You gotta love huggers...or be afraid of them. I'm not sure which.

But apparently this particular school counselor was not afraid to give them. Who knew something as simple as remembering to bring a Corban T-shirt for her college T-shirt quilty thing would warrant a hug from an almost complete stranger. Yes, that's right. I did use a feminine pronoun. I randomly was hugged by a girl counselor and proceeded to do my typical internal Jared freak out. But it was over pretty quick. No worries. Until of course I gave her the "thank-you-for-letting-me-visit-your-school" cookies. Apparently that warrants a hug too. So I was blessed to have two healthy doses of internal panic all in a span of about 7 1/2 minutes.

Note to self: bring tube socks and brussel sprouts to high school visits from now on...

Irreplaceable

I have now received a long-awaited GPS system just prior to my final traveling adventure of this fall season. Naturally, I was eager to test it out, so I brought it with me...

I am pleased to say that regardless of where our technologically consumed society ends up, whether we actually do end up having robots demanding human rights decades into the future or not, we as human beings will be eternally irreplaceable. Yes, there is not a human I know who would instruct me to pass the southbound freeway only to turn left .2 miles up the road followed by a turn "sharply right" (which basically amounts to a U-turn) simply to reach the freeway entrance yet again and proceed to take the ramp. I mean, I'm sure there was a logical reason for it. You know, like the GPS unit probably knew there would be an accident that I would just miss by taking that extra little "roundabout." Of course, I never did see an accident on my way south...

My friends, we certainly shall be irreplaceable.

Amen.

Smellin' Good

It's important to understand that I work with all girls.

And there are times when one, being a male, can do nothing but shake his head and laugh helplessly at what comes of this fact. See, girls are very precious in the way of hygiene and fashion. As a matter of fact, if it weren't for them many of us guys would be in a world of trouble. But there are those times when it rubs off...literally. Having to share a car with several girls who frequently drive it sometimes results in a man's hands smelling fresh but very fruity/coconut-cocoa-buttery/effeminate due to the lotions such girls enjoy and utilize frequently. They have a tendency to rub off onto steering wheels...

A man must understand when he is outnumbered and laugh, accepting the fact that his hands are gonna smell girly from time to time.

Deputy Sheriff Bovey

Rob Bovey, formerly a Corban College Admissions Counselor has officially been hired as a deputy sheriff for the Marion County Sheriff's Department! This has been a long hiring process for Rob. It has taken six months to complete and we are all so proud of you that you made it!

Today, Monday, November 10th at 9:30am some of us were present to watch Rob sworn into the department and receive his badge (how cool is that!). The event was held over at the county jail located by the college. Some of us stayed behind and got a FULL tour of the jail. I will be honest in saying I don't think I want to go back! It was a huge eye opener for me and I have a better picture and idea of what is going on inside those closed doors. These men and women behind the closed doors are people I want to remember to pray for. We will be praying for you Rob as you embark on this new journey as DEPUTY SHERIFF BOVEY!

Happy Picture

SARAH IS BACK! Sarah Ernst that is :) Everyone has made an appearance in the office today except Heidi which I am currently not feeling bad for as she is in the Hawaiian sun!

Change

Oh how we love change! I thought I would make the blog look a little more FALL like! :) If you don't like it....it will not hurt my feelings and I can find a different background! I hope you all are doing well. Can you believe that it is November and travelling is soon over? I am sure you all are ready for some rest! Miss seeing all of your faces in the office!

PS. CONGRATS to Rachel who participated in the New York Marathon!

Hi...gh

So one of the hotel guys came by today and was planning on doing some maintenance in my room while I was gone. However, I was actually in my room at the time. He apologized and I told him it was no problem and that he was welcome to do his work anyway and it wouldn't really bother me. He asked me again to be sure I was sincerely okay with it. I was.

The interesting thing is, the maintenance he did was to touch up some unpainted patches on the wall in my bathroom. Now, I might be a weirdo, but this seems like something you might wait to do until no one is scheduled to be in that particular room as paint tends to give off reasonably strong fumes. But hey, I'm no hotel manager and I probably don't know what I'm talking about.

Now when I go to the restroom I have the added...adventure of whiffing paint fumes and risking getting high or light-headed and passing out. And that's through a stuffed up nose!

But on the bright side, my bathroom looks wonderful for the remainder of my 16-hour stay. And it's a good thing too because I may have seriously considered never coming back here if I had to look at those disgusting, unmatched white patches of paint on my bathroom wall!

Woohoo! Well, I gotta go lie down for a bit. I'm feeling a little light-headed...

Hail Mary!

You know, until today I had never seen so much hail that parts of the road looked as if it had snowed. That was very interesting. And it made for some fun driving too. Praise the Lord I was only about three minutes from my hotel.

Thanking God for Windows (no, not Microsoft)

Well, to keep it brief let's just say it was awkward. There you go. See, you ladies have a great advantage over myself when it comes to student/school visits. If it's you and one guy, hey, no big deal. If it's me and one girl...I tend to get a little paranoid and panicked trying to make sure I don't do anything that might be even thought of as being slightly misconstrued as maybe perhaps by a long shot inappropriate.

So, thank God for windows! By no fault of my own, one of my counselors had accidentally double booked at her school and since there was a large crowd for the other school, she gave them the entire career center. No worries though. She was nice enough to let me and the one girl that came to visit me use her office. And, being the courteous person that she was, she decided to close the door so neither I nor the other college would be distracted...How sweet. So, you can see where a little panic might have come in here, especially in this world in which we live, in which simply by virtue of being a young adult male I am almost immediately suspected of being at risk for being a...threat, to put it nicely.

So I thank God for windows in this little office because if it were not for them I would have been completely isolated from anyone else and at the mercy of the honesty of this girl's testimony of our meeting. Actually, once I got past the panic part it was okay...of course, that wasn't until we opened the door again, but whatever. It was a more laid back visit, though as she was the little sister of a current student and so we got a chance to talk more casually. But I thank God for His mercy and protection! And who knew those would come in the form of transparent sheets of glass? =0)