omg omg WOW

So I just got done with my meeting with Shirley MacLaine and the Dean and I'm in a little bit of awe right now. To think that USC will actually begin production, brainstorming, planning, consideration, whatever for the USC Center of Integrative Medicine is huge, incredible in fact. I can't believe that this might actually happy - that I was sitting and explaining to the Dean how Integrative Medicine could function tangibly at USC. I think everyone was pretty surprised by how well the meeting went. I am just in a little bit of shock at how crazy in my element I felt today, it was as if I had been planning this meeting inside my mind for a very very long time and as if I was doing dream-play-back as to how everything would go in my head. Talk about exciting!! There is now so much work to do, I have to cancel my trip to out of town and get busy researching what is the best way to plan a Center of Integrative Medicine at USC!!

Ps- Shirley MacLaine was so super nice, btw, for those of you who were wondering. She hugged me at the end and asked me how old I was. I said, after hesitating, that I was 22. She smiled and said, "Ah! I remember those days!". She was so sweet! I'll be meeting with her in two weeks again to come together with more ideas of the Center.