Since I did not publish a list last week, I am posting a double-length one today.
- I voted early
- Physics Lunch Club (Nov. 2)
- My students are starting to assemble parts for our next lab project
- We now have a fully assembled new computer in the lab
- Yoga class
- Dinner with the new band director and her husband
- Introducing them to one of our favorite restaurants
- Wonderful conversation over dinner
- Sharing a little bit about black holes and gravitational waves
- A deep, well-written, and very personal story of grief over divorce at The Well (Nov. 6)
- Having friends from different parts of the political spectra
- Buying kombucha for my wife
- Unseasonably warm and sunny weather
- Learning about my department head’s research through his colloquia
- Important and useful meeting about applying for funding renewal
- Despite not being a baseball fan, I was kept updated on the World Series by my friends from Ohio and Illinois
- Physics Lunch Club at Firehouse (Nov. 9)
- The weather was nice enough to eat outside at Firehouse!
- My colleagues who I have gotten to know through lunches at the Faculty Lounge
- Finally understanding how to derive a particular equation for my class
- Ranked Choice Voting passed in Maine; maybe South Dakota will be next!
- Washington, DC passed a measure in favor of statehood, perhaps putting us on a path to a 51st state and having a new flag.
- Of the 10 issues on my ballot, I agreed with the results on 7
- The second session in Knowing Who You Are, a set of workshops on racial and ethnic identity and diversity on campus
- Listening to a recording of some of our Symphonic Band rehearsal
- Our band directors sloth-shaped tea steeper
- Attending the blue star flag raising ceremony on campus
- A new temperature logger for our radon monitor
- Dinner and catching up with friends Patrick and Laura
- Lunch at IHOP with our friend Matt
- Watching Star Trek at our house with Matt
- The final discussion in our series on grief
- Potluck at The Well
- Our friend noticed and retrieved a few items we had forgotten
- Meeting our neighbor Becky
- Sorting out plans for the final classes of the semester
- Good sight reading exercise in band rehearsal
- Leaning more about recent local Lakota history at the Lakota Cultural Form (Nov. 15)
- Pizza at the forum
- Placed order for the largest piece of equipment that will be in my lab.