agreed to chair MAE. I hope this wasn't an April Fool's joke. Then I
admired the new paperweight
Steve North sent from New Zealand and had a faculty lunch
with Sankaran Sundaresan (Chemical Engineering), Karen Bennett (Philosophy) and Daniel Heller-Roazen (Comparative Literature) seated and
Ben Elman (East Asian Studies and History), Bonnie Bassler (Molecular Biology), Sanjeev Kulkarni (Electrical Engineering) and Alan Blinder (Economics) standing.