The “gloom” has long devastated the campus. No pestilence has ever been so depressing or so melancholy. Nasty weather was its Avatar and its seal – the gloom and the horror of the past couple of days. There were classes and sudden parking problems and then profuse lamentations stemming from a Saints loss.
And according to a forecast by a British psychologist, today is the gloomiest day of the year. Dr. Cliff Arnall determined it with a formula he concocted using variables such as mounting holiday season debts, abandoned New Year’s resolutions and nasty weather. And an ocean away another variable was conceived when the Saints fell in a rough NFC championship game against Chicago. The Saints lost only after a nearly successful march toward the Super Bowl showing the nation even in their loss they are a football force to be reckoned with.
But cheer up. We’re all OK. The Saints played their best. Sunshine is in our three-day forecast. Reggie Bush flipped into the end zone, pointing back as he raced toward a touchdown. His gesture not only acknowledged the historical season that laid behind him but was a symbol of many a successful season to come.
Our landscape architecture school has received recent media attention. According to a recent study released in DesignIntelligence, a landscape design magazine, the school was accredited as “best prepared for real-world practice.”
Plans for a new parking garage are in the making. And there are many more reasons to be happy as a Baton Rouge resident and University student.
Don’t let a British psychologist, an allusion to an Edgar Allen Poe short story, the result of a football game or some falling water get to you. Tomorrow will be better.
And remember – according to the Chicago Tribune, the word “Chicago” is derived from the Potowatomi word for “stinky onion.”
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