A little sod fixes anything: Cutting it kinda close!

Photo by Skyler Rogers

Students move into our new residence halls TOMORROW morning, and the sod is going in today. Talk about cutting it close! The new grass brings everything together - the building wouldn't look "finished" without it.

While the landscaping is looking good, we are still scrambling behind the scenes to get ready for our Late Night @ the REC event tomorrow night from 10pm to 1am. Today we picked up about 40 cases of soda and water, and I'm going back into the building after hours to assemble the rear-projection screen for the Xbox Kinect (that we have written permission to use).

After that, the only thing left to do will be to finish my Captain Condom costume. We already have the generic costume store version of "captain condom" but somehow lost the pants over the years. If any costume could get away with no pants, I think Captain Condom would be a candidate! But, for the sake of our dress code, I bought different colors of tights and soccer socks to see which combination looks best.

Yeah, I take my Wellness Cosplay seriously! I'm sure I'll blog about it later.

Huge building wrap / poster on side of residence hall definitely gets your attention

This past week, a handful of huge building wraps / posters (not quite sure what to call them) went up on some of our residence halls. There are about 6-8 of these huge posters in all, each with different marketing photos and slogans.

At first I was a bit taken aback by the billboard-sized vinyl photos plastering the walls of these halls.

After seeing them for a few days, they've grown on me. Now I'm realizing that they definitely add a certain NEWness to the buildings, especially since construction was completed on some legitimately new residence halls down the street.

I'm hoping this is a Fall Semester thing and not a permanent installation, however. I compare them to landscaping with annual flowers - they're here to spice things up temporarily.

What I learned: Don't be too hasty to sign up as a marketing model, you might end up 30 feet tall on the side of a building!