Our department has a tradition of Friday Afternoon social hours. Some group of people will sponsor the social hour by bringing in the beer and snacks, and everyone will come and enjoy. The group is usually a lab, but we've tried to stay creative in terms of groups- a graduate class, the 5th floor, and now the New Englanders want to host. When I heard this, my friend from a Montana ranch suggested we could host as the West. Surely there were other people from our department from the west.
After much brain wracking, we found one first year from Oregon, and one of the new faculty did his PhD and post doc in Utah and California. We thought if we defined 'West' as west of this Mississippi, we might pick up a few more- there is one faculty member from Kansas, so... A classmate from Philadelphia told me if we took West to mean Ohio and all points West, we might get a few more takers. I've often thought most people in my department were from the area, but I hadn't really tried to quantify that before.
Matt's friend is here to visit for the weekend from New York. The major plans for the weekend are a big beer tasting event today, and mountain bike riding. Very Manly. And a nice run-up to Matt's birthday.
For the record, turning 31 is WAY easier than turning 30.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment