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Once again it is enrollment time. Every year at about this time I have to work a few weekends to get the new fall class enrolled and each year the new crop of high school seniors seem younger and younger. The first enrollment session this year took place in St. Louis. So I drove over with about 20 other faculty and staff members to spend the weekend working with the incoming students. The actual work didn't take the whole weekend just Saturday but we ended up driving down on Friday so that we could be fresh when we got started at 8:00 Saturday morning. One of the highlights of these trips is the fact that I get paired up with a different faculty or staff member each time. Someone new whom usually I don't know very well but whom after a weekend together I feel that I know a lot better. This year I got paired with someone I already new fairly well and whom I knew that I already liked, the director of the Computer Services Department. Becides being the CompuServ director he is also the husband of my former boss. So over the years I have had a number of chances to spend time with him here at work and also at their home. We ended up getting to St. Louis early enough to have a couple of hours to kill before dinner. After putting our luggage away Matt and I headed down to the bar to kill some time and have a couple of drinks. In the two hours we had a chance to get to know one another even better than we already did. Most of the group went to dinner at a Mongolian restaurant near the hotel we were staying in. Though it was pretty good it didn't hold a candle to "Gangus Kahn" on 39th here in KC. Even so I enjoyed myself, again I sat w/ people I didn't yet know very well and got a chance to talk and know each other on a more personal level. After dinner most of us sat around at the bar at the hotel and talked until the wee hours.
The event itself went off with out a hitch and though draining it is somewhat anti-climatic. We ended up finishing up fairly early and headed back to KC. I road back w/ a couple of women from Admissions and we talked the whole way back. A little over half way back one of them asked me a question about Judaism and we ended up haveing a Q & A about Judaism the rest of the way back. I enjoy telling non-jews about Judaism. It not only clears up misconceptions and you would be suprised how many misconceptoins there are out there about Judaism but sometimes I am asked probing questions that I don't know the answer to, inspiring me on to find out more about my own religion.
ciao
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