04.14.05
It had been a delightful week of weather with each day a little bit nicer than
the one before. So, of course, people were out walking and on Thursday (4/14)
on the way home from work. I ran into the Sandersons
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pushing their baby (eyes opened for the first time)
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towards town.
04.14.05
Then, on Saturday (4/16) as I made my way home, there
were John Sully and 2 friends
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cleaning things up at Trinity. This inspired Ben and me to start
our project of photographing the paperweights
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though the final images will appear elsewhere (on the paperweight page).
04.17.05
The next day, I took Ben to Flemington for a chess tournament. If you look carefully at this picture
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you see this image of him hard at work. Afterwards,
the award ceremony began
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and Ben waited
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until he was called up
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to receive the trophy
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for 1st place (4 wins, no losses) in the grade 4-12 section. An exciting time.
We came home because it was time to celebrate our anniversary. We gathered the
clan including these respectable people with an umbrella
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and this younger man who replaced me
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and then just Sarah and Ed posed
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as Ben was amused
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as we got ready to enter Rats
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for a celebratory dinner.
I had a martini
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which threw off the next picture
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but my plate
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was quite nice before it was removed to make room for the radish soup
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and other courses
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as the others had fish
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and chicken
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and my ravioli
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and risotto
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kept me happy even as Jane dug into her filet mignon
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as the bread person posed
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which made the waiter
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want his picture taken too.
Then it was time for individual pictures, so Jane posed
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Ben posed
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and then got amused
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Ed posed
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Sarah posed
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and I took this self portrait
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before capturing Suzanne
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and letting someone else capture me
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in the family group.
Sarah next did an excellent job of recording a trip to the lady's room
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complete with plants
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in the stall.
After dinner, it was time to celebrate Sarah's birthday and so we started
the ritual of present opening
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with a display of earrings
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and a large bow
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and then more presents
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with a break for complimentary pastries
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and more presents
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until the hands
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were tired and the desserts
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including fries and shake
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came along with the bill
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which showed that a night out with the family isn't as cheap as it used to be.
After visiting with some people in the garden
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and seeing the mother and child
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we admired some sculptures in the dark
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before having some tea
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with the old timers and taking one last picture
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with which to close off the celebration.
04.18.05
On Monday (4/18), there was a camera crew at the bus stop
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to record Seminary parents who take their kids to the bus. Then at the
end of the day, Meredith's car
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was loaded with balloons for Sarah's real birthday.
While we weren't invited to the celebration, Devon Louise Cecilia
Wessman-Smerdon took these pictures
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so we feel like we were there.
04.19.05
On Tuesday (4/19),
a faculty group
came to lunch
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but took a while
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to pose as
Left to Right: Josh Goldstein (Woodrow Wilson School and Sociology),
Alexandre d'Aspremont (Operations Research and Financial Engineering),
Michael Bender (Geosciences), Katherine Newman (Woodrow Wilson School
and Sociology), Mona Singh (Computer Science),
Gaetana Marrone-Puglia (French and Italian), Susan Taylor (Art Museum).
Then, on the way home from work, I saw the new bust of Albert
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who was chatting with the man with the newspaper
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as I went to vote in the school board election.
04.20.05
On Wednesday (4/20), Spencer Meredith '53
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and Mary Baum (Development)
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came to discuss the Dominican Republic and later in the day, Sabine
Kastner (Psychology)
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came to explain how she could push neuroscience in a direction that
would allow them to not put electrodes in my brain.
04.21.05
Thursday (4/21) began with coffee with Marsha Gilman
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after which I met with Ron Witte
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and Sarah Whiting
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whoa re job candidates in Architecture. I ended the work day in a
discussion with Slobodan Curcic (Art and Archaeology)
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before heading out. On my eventual way home, I ran into Jan Woods
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on Nassau Street.
