The One with ???

The last couple of days have been pretty normal. I got an email from the international coordinator and she told me that my immunization records weren't up to date. I went to the health center and apparently I needed another MMR jab and a TB test jab. So I got those, which were painful but I'm the least squeamish person I know so it was fine.

Today I went to the library for an orientation tour. I am officially in love with the AppState library. One of my favourite things is the cyber cafe downstairs which smells like fresh coffee all the time = amazing! It has five floors, including a basement level. The atrium is an amazing cylindrical 'hole' in the building so you can look up all the way to the ceiling where there are beautiful sky murals painted, and around the edge are painted mountain landscapes. It's such a nice space to be in.

The bottom floor is the education library, but it also has really cool chairs and sofas which look like open books :) Also downstairs are amazing moving bookshelves, the writing center, the library for official government documents and the DVD library. The first floor houses lots of computers and the reference book section. The second and third floors house the main books, and the fourth floor has a more formal library which is also a silent floor. It seems like the library caters to every need, including a media center in case students need help with multimedia presentations and making documentaries, study rooms with smartboards for group study and also rooms with cable televisions in seven different languages for students who study language and culture so they can watch tv from a different country. It's a pretty special place, it has such a nice feel to it with comfy chairs all around, and each floor has its own colour scheme so everything is bright and cheery. The building's only about four years old which is great.

Then I had my 5.00 Popular Culture lecture with Larry Keeter which I can tell is always going to be interesting because he's a quirky guy. Today he started off by asking the class a series of questions including:

1) Who was voted the top entertainer of the 20th Century in a Time magazine poll?
2) What is the second most visited house in America?
3) What is the number one visited grave site in America?
4) What is the most collected stamp in American history?
5) Who is in the most requested picture of an American president in history?

I can tell you that the answer to all of them is the same. We talked about this person for about half an hour, then Larry announced that we were going on a field trip to Crossroads (which is a coffee shop in the Students Union) and we were going to watch a documentary on this person. Also to pay homage (as on January the 8th of next year he would have been 75 years old), we were going to eat one of his favourite foods - donuts. It was an extremely good documentary, showing clips of his life and how he got to be so famous.

Answers on a postcard people - who was it?