This was a week in my life -- some lunches, some meetings with faculty, Ben's birthday party at a Trenton Thunder game and the infamous Behrman dinner.

It began on Tuesday with lunch in my office with the artists who did the pictures IMG_1058 Penelope Tang IMG_1059 Rosanna M Da Costa IMG_1060 Maia K. Schweizer each posing with her artwork for me to see. On the way home, I ran into Jane IMG_1061 who was on her way to a history review session.

On Wednesday, I had a faculty lunch for IMG_1062 IMG_1063 Aissata Sidikou-Morton (French and Italian), Su Fredrich (Visual Arts), John Fleming (English), Molly Greene (History), Clarence Rowley (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), Larry Bartels (Politics and Woodrow Wilson School) and Jeanne Altman (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology). That evening, I took a few pictures of Sam Levin's tallis IMG_1064 IMG_1065 for Ben to use in his ancestors project.

On Thursday, Yoshiaki Shimizu (Art and Archaeology) IMG_1066 came to visit and then I had lunch with IMG_1067 Jim Sturm (Electrical Engineering and PRISM).

On Friday, I went to computer science and saw Andrew Appel IMG_1068 before heading back home to get ready for the ball game.

The boys assembled before 6 and there were pictures of Nathaniel and Joel IMG_1069 Ben and Sam IMG_1070 and then various groupings IMG_1071 IMG_1072 IMG_1073 before we made our way to the tree IMG_1074 and kept adding IMG_1075 until I tried to get everyone to look at me IMG_1076 IMG_1077 IMG_1078 with limited success. We drove on to the ball park IMG_1079 and the group in my car, posed first with the car IMG_1080 and then with the sculpture IMG_1081 IMG_1082 IMG_1083 before doing some climbing IMG_1084 IMG_1085 while waiting for the others to come and claim their pennants IMG_1086 which they did IMG_1087 just as the game was starting and Nathaniel IMG_1088 was wondering if he could throw out the first pitch before we reached our seats where the Thunder staff IMG_1089 brought our food IMG_1090 and gave us each some food IMG_1091 which Bobby IMG_1092 dug into as the game progressed IMG_1093 and Ben IMG_1094 IMG_1095 IMG_1096 decided not to turn around for a photo op but Nathaniel IMG_1097 was willing to mug for the game camera as the play IMG_1098 continued to the amusement of our group IMG_1099 especially when Boomer came to our section IMG_1100 IMG_1101 IMG_1102 IMG_1103 IMG_1104 IMG_1105 after which I felt compelled to try and get a group picture IMG_1106 IMG_1107 IMG_1108 IMG_1109 IMG_1110 and then went back to trying for a picture of Ben IMG_1111 without his head folded back IMG_1112 and finally succeeded IMG_1113 so that I tried for Bobby and Eddie IMG_1114 and then Nathaniel IMG_1115 before settling for a self portrait IMG_1116 and an image in profile IMG_1117 which was pretty good. Meanwhile, the moon was up IMG_1118 and surrounded by bats (the flying kind) that cannot be seen in the picture. The group watched IMG_1119 and Nate IMG_1120 moved out of the frame IMG_1121 as Joel IMG_1122 moved in and so, it was Nate in IMG_1123 and Joel in IMG_1124 before the game ended with a final score of 10-2 so that Bobby, Ben and Sam IMG_1125 could climb into my car for the trip home.

Saturday morning, I admired the tulips IMG_1126 IMG_1127 IMG_1128 before heading into town for this veggie burger IMG_1129 which looked better sans light IMG_1130 and then it was off to the bank where we met Kathy Ales IMG_1131 and then homeward with a stop to admire the Hummer IMG_1132 that was going to take the bride and groom away from their wedding.

Saturday evening, as Jane IMG_1133 and Ben IMG_1134 enjoyed the movie. Suzanne IMG_1135 and I IMG_1136 IMG_1137 IMG_1138 IMG_1139 and Suzanne again IMG_1140 IMG_1141 got ready not to play hoops IMG_1142 but to take the car IMG_1143 to the Behrmann dinner but not before Jane took these pictures of us IMG_1144 IMG_1145 IMG_1146 for posterity.

Once at the dinner, we met Eve Ascheim (Visual Arts) and her husband IMG_1147 IMG_1148 and then IMG_1149 P. Adams Sitney (Visual Arts) and Christine Stansell (History and Humanities Council) and IMG_1150 Froma Zeitlin (Classics) and Michael Wood (English); not to mention Karin Trainer the librarian IMG_1151 and Bob Fagels (Comparative Literatures) IMG_1152 who posed with Karen and Bill IMG_1153 and then with his wife Lynne IMG_1154 who had put the whole thing together.

As we were leaving, I captured this picture of Eva and Lionel Gossman IMG_1155 who were happy to know they'd be on the web site.