Garrett Richardson: February 2009

The last month has been an interesting one with classes keeping the pace of life consistently continual and the balancing act of planning worship sets, working for the Admissions office, and being a good boyfriend has been challenging but good in so many ways. Honestly, the month of February has been a blur for me personally but overall, I've been enjoying life. I've come to see that that is ideally what's most important.

Two Mondays ago (feb. 9), my girlfriend started campaigning for the office of Vice President. This position would ideally represent the whole student body through a student forum held once a week along with facilitating the voice of us students through different channels of communication. So it's kind of a big deal and can be stressful to think about sometimes.

I helped make her posters which have been among the sea of eye catching advertisements around campus. Here are a few:

This is the one with me on it

This one is my friend Molly

The concept behind her poster was to show a representation of students who agreed would support her campaign. We made a total of 45 different posters and each one had a new person on it that said "I'm voting for Allison."

The polls close today and we'll find out tomorrow if she got it. Basically she's running against a well known Junior named John Penner who is similar to Allison in some ways but they are both very different in their ways of leadership. If you are a political junky, (like my friend Justin) you can read more at: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=62950448472&ref=ts

Here are some absolutely classy shots that I got during this process that I thought you would enjoy. Many of them are our friends. If you're reading as a perspective student, this is what Loma is like on an average day...

Grant taking the vespa out for a ride