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<\/a>But I must confess that I had something like the \u201cget it out of the way\u201d attitude in place last Sunday when it came to Easter church duties. When our friend Marsue was rector, Trinity Episcopal provided only one super-celebration on Easter morning at 9:00, but Mitch, the new rector guiding the congregation through Holy Week festivities for the first time, scheduled 8:00 and 10:00 services on Easter morning. I\u2019m an early morning person, Jeanne said she would join me at the early show, and by slightly after 9:00 AM our Easter church duties had been gotten out of the way. Priceless.<\/p>\nAs fairy tales go, I prefer Cinderella over Sleeping Beauty or Snow White, but in a recent foray into Facebook\/Internet personality quiz-taking revealed something quite accurate and appropriate about me. Which of Snow White\u2019s Seven Dwarfs am I?<\/a><\/p>\n I\u2019ve always thought Snow White to be a radically chauvinistic tale, since the main reason the little guys love Snow White is that they finally have a woman in the house to cook and clean for them, but I was still intrigued. I used to know the names of all seven of the dwarfs (couldn\u2019t produce them all now), but my result makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n Those all sound like the qualities that I\u2019ve had to rely on (even though I didn\u2019t know I possessed many of them) in my now decade-long foray into academic administration, first as chair of a large department, then director of a much larger program. Except for the weak-in-the-knees business. The only thing that does that to me is an unexpected victory by the Friars or the Red Sox.<\/p>\n Continuing with the personality quiz theme related to movies and television, a while ago I came across a perfect quiz:<\/p>\n Which British Detective Are You?<\/a><\/p>\n This one might not work for you, but Jeanne and I are Anglophiles of a cosmic order when it comes to television detective shows. Sherlock? Lewis? Morse? Barnaby? This one knocked it out of the park. Your result: Congratulations; you are Jane Tennison (from \u2018Prime Suspect\u2019)!<\/strong><\/p>\n Ever since she played Morgana in Excalibur <\/em>back in the early 80s, Helen Mirren has been one of my favorites, and her role as Jane Tennison in \u201cPrime Suspect\u201d is brilliant. I can\u2019t say, though, that much of the description fits me.<\/p>\n Your life and career is a long and bitter tale of struggle and injustice, stretching back as far as you\u2019d care to remember. And of course, that sort of thing leaves a mark. You\u2019re no longer sure if you became good at your job because of natural talent, or because no one thought you could do it and you had to either prove them wrong or leave. Whatever the reason, all of this battling has brought out the best in your personality. You\u2019re tough, strong and ready to fight your corner whenever adversity comes your way. That sounds a lot more bad-ass than I consider myself to be, but I\u2019ll take just being in the same paragraph with Helen Mirren\u2014channeling Jane Tennison\u2019s bad-assery is something I will work on. Maybe a sabbatical project. And by the way, Jeanne and I saw Helen in her newest movie \u201cWoman in Gold\u201d last evening. She\u2019s as great as ever.<\/p>\n I\u2019m a great lover of movies and good television, almost to the point of addiction. Of the dozens of online personality quizzes I have taken (I guess I\u2019m addicted to them as well), I anxiously awaited the results of<\/p>\n Which Actor Would Play You in the Story of Your Life?<\/a> I had taken this one several months ago but forgot to record the results\u2014this time around I won\u2019t forget.<\/p>\n Daniel Day-Lewis has been cast to play you! Daniel Day-Lewis\u2019 onscreen personality and character traits: Passionate, fiercely intense, wise, unafraid of a little insanity, romantic, intimidating, fearless, able to speak other languages, <\/a>I suppose it reveals my latent barbarian and irreligious tendencies to say that our real<\/strong> Easter activity last Sunday was going to see the new Disney movie version of the classic fairy tale \u201cCinderella.\u201d But think about it\u2014there are actually some Easter related themes there\u2014redemption, transformation (pumpkin into coach, lizards into coachmen, goose into coach driver, mice into horses), unconditional love. Cinderella and Easter are both \u201cfeel good happy ending\u201d tales. Even the life mantra Cinderella learns from her mother\u2014\u201cHave Courage, and Be Kind\u201d\u2014before her mother dies sounds like some versions of Christianity I\u2019m familiar with. Not convinced? <\/a>Neither am I, but it really was a lovely movie with great CGI effects, good acting by Rose and Daisy from Downton Abbey<\/em> as Cinderella and wicked stepsister #1 respectively, and a good time was had by all.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>You are Doc! In a chaotic world, you\u2019re the one who keeps everything grounded. You\u2019re a natural-born leader, even if you don\u2019t always find the right words to get your vision across. You are a caretaker and a control freak at heart, but you go weak in the knees for life\u2019s more beautiful things!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>This does make it hard to drop your guard sometimes, and of course it won\u2019t protect you from heartache because in order to admit you have feelings, you have to be vulnerable. And nothing hurts like betrayal. But woe betide the person that crosses you. LOTS of woe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>intimate, up for any challenge, cosmopolitan, adaptable, proud, forceful, powerful.<\/strong><\/p>\n