Good Try Though

Redeemer is the land of self improvement. And this extends to the building itself. There are constantly little things being made better - dorm windows, paving things, etc. Currently there are some renovations being done in the center foyer/A stairs/stairs area. The area known as 'the couches' was recarpeted and the carpet at the bottom of the stairs has been turned to tile to match the tile on the floor. There are also new couches and chairs (though I'm still not sure what was wrong with the old ones as they were only a couple years old, but the new stuff does look very nice and is veeeerry cushy and comfy... anyway).

Nearing the completion of this renovation everyone was sent an email from campus services outlining what had been changed. Apparently this also included the name of the area. This area is supposed to be called "The Commons" now and even in the email it said The Commons (formerly known as the Center Foyer). I'm not gonna lie, this got me a little riled up. Why does campus services get to rename part of the school? And why The Commons. While sitting at The Couches this week, I discussed this and people said they'd be willing to start calling it The Commons if things (aka food) were actually sold in The Commons area (Mac's food court has Commons in its name). Perhaps it was also decided that The Commons sounds like a kissing disease - "Oh man I've got The Commons!" "You were kissing Klaas again weren't you?" "Yeah, its true. Just don't tell my parents I got The Commons". There would also be a willingness to call it The Commons if there were some end tables to set things on in The Couch area (currently there is just the arms of the leather furniture - ok, if thats where you want us to rest our drinks). Possibly also the idea of having a mini-tramp built into the floor at one point and the accompanying St. John's ambulance booth.

I also decided I would be willing to start calling it The Commons, if I was able to rename other parts of the building. Example - Rename the main office, Fred. "Well, if you go down to Fred and talk to Jane she should be able to help you." Or, "Cheques can be dropped off to Zach Pillings in Fred."

Likely though, this attempt at a name change will fall to the dust like the well intentioned naming of the 3 parking lots - Luther, Calvin and Cranmer Courts will forever be known as First, Second and Third Parking Lots.

Grin

A lovely young thing is lending me her digi cam from Wednesday night through to Monday or Tuesday. I feel my blog will reap many benefits from this. Some events that will/should be captured in this time period may include: Thursday's ball game, Dave and Brittany's wedding, a gathering of some amazing friends, dinner with a friend I haven't seen since the summer of '01 (Facebook brought us back together, awww) and me kissing Fergie Jenkins at John's home game on Sunday night, plus any other hijinx I can get myself into.

In Case You Don't Read the Comments...

This was in the comments from the previous post:

So...you don't know me...but I just have to share a random story with you. I'm writing a screenplay right now that involves an Epipen, but I wasn't really sure what they looked like. So I decided to search for one on Google images. I did...and I followed the picture of the Epipen to your blog. Then I saw that you had a ton of pictures, so I decided to look at them because they were really random. And THEN...I scrolled all the way to the bottom of your site and there were a list of links. I thought my eye caught the word "prayer" so I scrolled back up to see if I was correct, cuz I thought hey, that would be cool if this girl was a Christian. So THEN I saw a bunch of names instead and thought, "hey, wouldn't that be weird if I saw someone I knew?" But then I was like yeah right, no way...what am I thinking? I must really be tired. But THEN...RIGHT as I thought that...there it was...STEPH ELGERSMA. I freaking am in LA with Steph and I'm sitting in her apartment typing this RIGHT NOW. She's sleeping, and I'm way tempted to wake her up so I can tell her. I'm on her roommate's computer because I'm spending the night here tonight. Isn't that the craziest small world story you've ever heard in your life? I still can't believe how entirely random that was. So I thought I'd share. We both know Steph Elgersma, and she is amazing. Hehehe. Have a good one. Hope this wasn't too random for you.