6:30 a.m. tomorrow
Presidential candidate John McCain arrives on campus tomorrow, and I have a 6:30 a.m. report time to Wait Chapel to help greet guests and provide logistical support. Thankfully there will be diet soda and sausage biscuits in the morning to help me wake up.
Because of the McCain visit, Facilities has taken down the temporary ropes that have been keeping people off the Quad grass (ropes that mean nothing to a 3 1/2 year old, I found out this weekend while walking with my son on campus). Facilities has mowed the grass in the kind of back and forth striped pattern you see at big league baseball stadiums and it looks wonderful. Between the Clinton and McCain visits and soon to be commencement, we are putting our best foot forward.
Looking out my window, I see two students holding hands. They obviously are a couple - and it makes me wonder if they are seniors who are lingering on campus before Beach Week (or post-exams, or whatever the term was in your time). I wonder if they are like so many other senior couples who are wondering what will happen after graduation - will they stay together? get married? find out that a long-distance relationship doesn’t work? As commencement draws near, there are so many questions about what the future will bring.
For now, they look happy. May they stay that way.