Book of D: HAPPY SPOOKYWEEN

It's Halloween and our university loves to go full force in celebration of it. There is an individual costume contest, which I did not enter, and a group (departmental) room decorating one. Our department opted for the celebrity insurance theme. These days, we are bombarded by tons of commercials set forth by this country's not-so-wonderful insurance carriers and underwriters (and yet, millions upon millions are not insured or underinsured) . . . Oops, Tangent. My bad! Anyway, for our department's insurance theme, I decided to go as Limu Emu and Doug from Liberty Mutual Insurance. I even managed a like and a comment from the Liberty Insurance people on Insta. My colleagues donned the following: John as Gecko from Geico; Stephanie as Dr. Rick from Progressive; Amber as Flo from Progressive; Isaiah as Jake from State Farm; Jashon as The General from the eponymous co.; and Diana's baby was Maxwell the Geico pig and her puppy was Mayhem from All-State. 

It has been a riotous day. Admittedly, our team started out early; we began decorating our area yesterday (Sunday, 10/30/22) . . . après the Dallas Cowboy's game, of course. Our student workers, Isaiah and Jashon, actually started really early on Sunday. John and I waited after the game to join in on the decorating. Stephanie was flying back from Austin (TACUSPA Conference) and Amber had family over, so they came later. Stephanie left early but bought our student workers food from Raising Cane's. Amber also left early but not before doing a wonderful job painting where needed. The rest of the guys and I stayed late, but the three of them stayed about 30 minutes after I left. John masterminded the entire decorating project; he envisioned what he thought we should have, and we made it come to fruition, somehow. 

It was tiring. John is a colleague; he is the UTPB Coordinator of Military and Veterans Support Services, but these past couple days, he has worked us harder than our own boss (LOL), Corey, who is the UTPB Assistant Vice President and Dean of Students. John is a good guy and an excellent coworker. We have a wonderful team. Soon, maybe next Spring 2023, we will all be moving to the second floor of the Student Activity Building (SAC), and we will be part of the Center for Student Belonging and Inclusion; Diana is the director; the rest of us will remain coordinators with the two guys staying on as our student workers. This is most likely the last semester we will celebrate holidays in the Falcon Center. It's all good in the neighborhood!