Random Flashback for Friday 11/8/13

Let me tell you a little story about FE 213 at LVC (Funkhouser East on Lebanon Valley College's campus).  Sure, on its face, it was simply the dorm room for me and John M during the academic year 1993-1994.

But, most importantly, it was at the end of the hall.

As such, it was bigger than other dorm rooms.  And since it was bigger than other dorm rooms, it was much easier to entertain extra visitors (like Brad H in this photo, and like Rich G and Kim H and Suzanne W in many others), and since we were a welcoming bunch who didn't believe in labels, we permitted those "extra visitors" to not just be restricted to humans.

Although it may have been a violation to have a pet in your dorm room, we used our status as "room at the end of the hall" to declare a zone where the rules simply didn't apply to us (see ... my anti-authoritarian streak was already fully formed by this time).  Which means that, twenty years ago in the midst of all things college-y, little kitty Smokey (she who was clearly small enough to fit in the baseball mitt) became a resident of FE 213, along with John M and me and all the other visitors ... twenty years ago.