Back at work I was ready for the first lunch of the academic year to which Chris Floudas (Chemical Engineering) Dan Osherson (Psychology) Norren Goldman (Woodrow Wilson School) Perry Link (East Asian Studies) David Bellos (French and Italian and Comparative Literature) and Valerie Haylo (Physics) came. Later that day, Michael Pratt (Music) and Gaetano Scoles (Chemistry) came to visit.