MnSCU Trustee Rumors

Over the past week there has been quite a bit written on blogs about a potential candidate for the MnSCU Board of Trustees. A sampling:

Taking the Trust out of Trustee
MnSCU Student Trustee Post Becoming Even More Partisan?
NARN - The Patriot - King Banian Interview with Adam Weigold
The Cucking Stool: Manchurian Candidate
The TruthSurfer Blog on Pawlenty and Hellier
Dump Bachmann Reader Comments

My take on this is that if one is being appointed to a seat to represent State University students, he/she ought to have some experience at a state university prior to being appointed. No matter the political stripes, that person shouldn't be a privately educated political operative.

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.

Summer?

Temperatures from the mid 90s to the mid 60s in a matter of days? Weird.

Job Search Update

A bit of an update...

My interview last week was fair. It was very dry, straight Q&A. I got through it but know it could've gone better. In the end I think I was more interested in them than they were in me. Haven't heard anything and don't really expect to.

I have another interview Wednesday, this time for a residential life position at a community college up north.

I've Got an Interview...

On Thursday I received a call for an interview. It's for a student life coordinator position at a community and technical college in southern Minnesota. (Won't say which one here yet for fear of jinxing it :-) ) Obviously this excites me...It's one of the positions I applied for that really stood out as something I would enjoy and be good at. It involves working with their student clubs and orgs, student government, etc, and would be a great opportunity and a solid start to a career in student affairs.

The scary part is that this will be my first "real" interview...in, well, my life. I've had a couple of jobs but there was not much of a formal process. The closest thing to an interview process I've had was when I applied for Senate positions, which hardly qualifies as job interview experience.

I guess all I can do is be myself and answer the questions to the best of my ability. I know how unlikely it is to get the first position you interview for--but I also know I can and want to do this job.

Here's hoping things go well come 2:15 Tuesday afternoon.

I'm an Official Graduate

The first of my two diplomas came today. I am an official college graduate, with paper to prove it!

Weekend With Relatives

Spent the last couple of days visiting with relatives in Wisconsin. The youngest of my cousins graduated from high school this year, so there was a party for him. It's always nice to see family--particularly my other cousin who lives in South Carolina, as I had not seen her since we both graduated five years ago.

Random Encounters in Duluth

In our family, we often joke with my dad about him knowing people everywhere we go. After so many years in his business (retail sporting goods) it is not uncommon to run into his customers, even if we are on a fishing trip hundreds of miles from home.

I may be following in his footsteps. Yesterday afternoon, Mom and I drove to Duluth to help my sister with her move to a new house. She was quite surprised to see us, which is another entry in itself. But the funniest part of the evening went something like this--in the car on the way to Grandma's Canal Park for dinner:

Jena: Is that Cody over there?
Me: What?
Jena: Isn't that your friend Cody over there on the sidewalk? The girl he's with is wearing a BSU sweatshirt.
Me, after turning to look and only seeing the side of the guy's head: It looks sort of like him but I doubt it.
Jena: I swear that's him.

We quickly turned around and once I was facing the two people, I could tell that indeed, my sister had spotted none other than Cody James Nelson, in the middle of Duluth. We pulled over and chatted briefly before continuing on our way.

I found this encounter funny because not only is it strange to run into people randomly in odd places, but also because Jena was the one who spotted him. Jena had never actually met him, and only seen Facebook photos and his speech at Commencement, yet was able to pinpoint him from a distance.

Not something that happens every day.