Do You Still Remember This Series?

A long day at work today.  I have to spend a good solid bunch of hours on the night shift, so they feel loved.  However, my enthusiasm for spreadsheets dimmed when the sun went down (aka after the fifth hour), and so in lieu of a lunch break I’m going to have a milkshake.  In good old Cookeville, Tennessee.

Cookeville, TN

Campus Look – 7

Campus Feel – 7

Town – 2/9  (town itself gets a 2, but its proximity to other coolness merits a 9)

School Size – 10,321 (92% white, 93% from Tennessee)

Student:Faculty Ratio – 18:1

Faculty – 500

4BR 3BA – $240,000

Comments:

So.  It’s a decent looking, decent sized school with some modest accolades from various and sundry surveys.  It has no theatre degree program, though you can get a combined theatre/English or theatre/education degree.  One theatre faculty, who looks a little – er – well, let’s not make fun of him.  I’ll just say he uses Celtic font on his pink online resume, and has an unfortunate haircut.  BUT – he did direct The Diviners, a play written by an alum of my college, and I find that cool.  Like we were fated to be coworkers, or something.  His list of recent plays has a few old standbys but also a few riskier selections in it, so ok.  Perhaps I could deal with being involved in this little theatre project.

Or, perhaps I could pursue a law degree, which still remains a(n ever more distant) possibility.  Knoxville has a law school, as does Nashville.  We’d have to live halfway between each, and we’d both have something of a drive . . . but, you know, I’d be a totally rich lawyer and then we could blow a hundred bucks on breakfast at IHOP on a regular basis, which I think would render me a widow as my husband would die and go to heaven.

There are like seven non-white people at this school.  I prefer a little more spice in my daily sauce, but beggars can’t be choosers, and they do have some cultural diversity clubs that we could become active members of.  And we would be in spitting distance of 3 big TN towns – Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga.  We could live halfway between Cookeville and any one of those towns.  Whether we would or not would depend on what I end up deciding to do with my life, and did you notice that Countdown to Decision 2009, The Rest Of My Life seems to be ticking a little more loudly this month?

Speaking of ticking, my lunch hour clock is ticking down.  Time to dive back in.