Well after last class, you all know what a West Wing groupie I am. As of this fall, I was assigned to be associate director of the School of Family Life and Alan Hawkins is now the director. We work closely together and often have to talk about rather serious and weighty things concerning the SFL faculty and students. I asked Alan for a favor yesterday right after class. He said, "yes", and so knowing Alan's EQUAL love for the West Wing AND my cognitive scripts surrounding the West Wing being activated after yesterday's class, I decided to express my appreciation with this meme:
Yes - Gus from Psych is in West Wing (I told you it's a good show) - in the show he is the president's assistant (kind of like I am to Alan). It was a very, very simple thing, but our offices are next door and I have NEVER heard him laugh so loudly as when he opened my email. It made my day and I was struck by an appreciation of how media can bring us together in the small moments of our day.
