I received acceptance via e-mail from the Mosaic magazine layout staff two days ago. I am now a member of Ohio State's undergraduate literary-arts magazine staff. They've already scheduled our first meeting for Thursday, November 1st...and I'm already scheduled to work that night. I hope I can work something out with my boss so I don't have to miss it. I'm really excited about this because it could be a jumping-off point for me getting into the field of publication design. Even if it's not, it'll still be something really worthwhile to do with my time, will look good on a resume, and be a creative outlet.

In addition to the excitement of Thursday's acceptance letter, I attended my second meeting with the Wexner Center Student Council. From an info page I found about the group: "Launching this fall, the Wexner Center Student Council is an initiative intended to engage Ohio State students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in the contemporary arts and the mission of the Wexner Center. Council members will help plan events for fellow students, meet artists and art professionals, get a behind-the-scenes look at Wex events and exhibitions, and provide a voice for the OSU student community."

I'm not 100% sure what our agenda for the year is yet, but we've talked about organizing some film festivals, and also discussed ways to get Wexner Center events out to a more broad range of students and otherwise. So far, it looks like we'll be doing a lot of neat stuff. At our meeting, I briefly mentioned to the coordinator/advisor that I was interested in talking with the Wexner Center design department (who design all of the flyers, website, advertisements, brochures, catalogs, post cards, tshirts, event pages and books, etc.) and she said she would look into having them come speak with the group. I really hope that can happen! The meeting was also filled with loads of inspiration a la Chuck Helm, the administrator and Director of Performing Arts at the Wexner Center. He gave us a brief biography, telling of how he got to his current position (which he's held for 16 years) and I couldn't believe some of the experiences he's had. That man has the coolest and most fulfilling job I can think of.