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Currently Listening Wicked by the 2003 Original Broadway Cast Track 11: Defying Gravity see related

This morning, my cell phone rang, and I got a call from my grandpa! Mom had mentioned that he was going to be in Nashville this month, but we really had no idea that he was planning to come by.

But Grandpa came by campus, and we went out to lunch, then I showed him around campus before he went on toward Paducah, Kentucky. That was a lot of fun. (Side note: I would recommend Picasso Bistro and Pizzeria. It was good.)

So thanks, Grandpa! I enjoyed that.

Okay, I'm getting settled back into the routine of school. My room is looking good, with all the roommates settled in, and we're having quite a bit of fun (I actually see and do things with my roommates this year, which is a nice change; I spent last night playing "Clue" and watching the Phantom of the Opera DVD special features disc, after which David, in a musical theater mood, broke out the Wicked soundtrack). My classes are going really well, too. I'm going to enjoy this year... Publication Design is right up my alley, and it seems like Photojournalism is going to be a lot of fun. I have friends in American history, and Publications Seminar shouldn't be hard.

Old Testament tends to be a little... droning, but it should be a fairly good class.

The first issue of the Cardinal & Cream is out, and, though it had its problems, parts of it came out pretty well (the copy editors have proclaimed Arts & Entertainment the best section, so I'm happy). Oh, and last week, I wrote an article that appeared on the front page of the weekly feature paper Jackson Today, on disaster relief efforts in Jackson that are going to Mississippi and Louisiana.

What else is going on? I start work this week... I auditioned for the theatre's production of Tartuffe but didn't get into the cast (Mr. Michael really can't afford to wait for cast members, and I would have had to be late at least once a week due to Publications Seminar)... Oh, and as an Arts & Entertainment Editor, I'm now getting movie trailers in the mail (I received a DVD-disc with the preview for "Elizabethtown," which would have been an advanced copy had it not been delivered to the mailbox number of one of my predecessors, Alaina Krause), which I find exceedingly cool.

So that's the quick summary of what's been going on here. Hopefully, there's more to come.