i won the lottery

yale advanced design studios have a strange reverse lottery system to select professors. this occurred yesterday. i distributed my points correctly, and then gambled by putting frank gehry as my top choice. i then had a stroke of luck, as apparently the selection process became a coin flip for those that tied in points. i've heard, though it's not confirmed, that there were 2 people out of 10 that got lucky in the coin flip, and i am one them (see my name right next to frank's [first name basis now, o.c.] in the picture there?). anyways, we then sat down with him for 2 hours and listened to him talk. i like listening to old men talk, and this one happened to be frank gehry. we are meeting him at the met opera house this afternoon, and then he's taking us to dinner in the city. and he told us he would get us drunk and get to know us. i also will be travelling and meeting other famous people throughout the semester. i'll let y'all know all about it. ridin' high this semester.