On Monday, I met with Michael Wood IMG_0016 head of the English department and an all around nice fellow.

On Tuesday I went to lunch at the faculty club and Walter IMG_0017 was there giving me his usual warm, friendly greeting. Brian McDonald IMG_0018 was the reason for the lunch. Later that day, I spoke with Angel IMG_0019 who heads the Spanish and Portugese department. It is somehow appropriate that I would start the next day meeting with Marie-Helene IMG_0020 who chairs the Fench and Italian department from which they were divorced. To calm me, I had lunch with Betty Leydon IMG_0021 who squinted a little less IMG_0022 and talked to me about IT, something I knew before I moved into the new job. Later that day, I visited with Scott Tremaine IMG_0023 who chairs the astrophysical sciences department.

At this point -- Wednesday afternoon -- it was time to move on to bigger things, so I headed to the machine shop. This design of a camera that records its info on a Mac IMG_0024 was being touted by this gentleman whose name escapes me IMG_0025 except that he insists that he and Michele are good friends and we've met before. I was really there to see Glenn Northey IMG_0026 who was going to make great strides on the penny project. As we had done at ChefRob's, we recorded the details of his shop including the CNC machine IMG_0027 IMG_0028 the drill press IMG_0029 the bits IMG_0030 the lathe IMG_0031 and the student machines in the lab IMG_0032 IMG_0033 and the larger lathe IMG_0034 stopping on the way back to watch him use the micrometer IMG_0035 to get numbers for his ProEngineer design of one groove IMG_0036 and then 10 IMG_0037 for a module.

On the way back to reality, we ran into Ben Kaplan IMG_0038 and Carol Mason IMG_0039 who seemed more grounded.