I hadn't taken pictures for a while so I decided to warm up the camera by recording the single year structures and then the decades and back to the single years before I shot the old structure and unused painting and then the S and D structures with too might light behind them.

Of course, all of this was a prelude to lunch with Charles Cameron (Politics and Woodrow Wilson), Jeff Nunokawa (English) Jeane Schwartzbauer (Molecular Biology), Sabine Kastner (Psychology), Lin Fernrad (Dean of Faculty), Frank Calaprice (Physics), Daniel Truman (Music)

Next it was Friday the 13th and I went through the fog to PJ's Pancake House to meet Benji Jasik '97 for breakfast.

This was the day to take the new picture of my staff but first I had to record the height of 1975 to show that there might be problem soon and then we all began to move into place after which we posed on the steps with June Eige, Lin Ferrand, Lorraine Post, Toni Turano, Elizabeth Smolinski and Melinda Matlack in front and Nita Cherry, Kris Miller, Sandra Gillette, Cathi Allison, Sandy Johnson and me behind and then we posed with Kris Miller, June Eige, Sandra Gillette, Toni Turano, Lin Ferrand, Nita Cherry, Lorraine Post, and Elizabeth Smolinski in front and me, Cathi Allison, Mlinda Matlack and Sandy Johnson behind.

One day on the way into work, Robert Butcher, the crossing guard needed his picture taken

And then the trustees came and I met Emmet Gowin and Toni Morrison which was good because it's always great to take a photo of the photographer.

On Sunday, I got up long before dawn and waited at an early hour for the trip to Florida where people assembled on the porch so that Doug Brady, Van Zandt Williams, Ken Jensen and John Diekman could explain why we were there and then Mary Baum and Van and Brian McDonald and Van could hold forth.

A few days later, Lorraine Fuhrmann of the Religion department came to visit after which I hosted lunch for Adam Meirowitz (Politics), Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Lars Hedin (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), Michael Laffan (History) and Andre Benhaim (French and Italian)

I ended the work month of January in a discussion with Vance Smith of the English Department.