Obligatory, maybe, but oh so nice.
Friday was a funny, back and forth kind of day. I had a dentist appointment at 2:00 and a short meeting at 4:00.
The dentist confirmed that I hadn’t damaged my teeth or jaw permanently in my face smashing, yay!
Before that, I finished grading all my 60 students’ last individual assignment (exercise 6, adding microdata to your information resources website), also yay! So now I am in a bit of a grading lull until the group projects are due at midnight on Monday.
There was a little going away party for my office mate. (I have the inner office, so you walk through hers to get to mine. I used to have the outer one when I started, and have shared with various others since I’ve moved to in. I think Anna was probably my favorite. Anna’s next door now) Anyways we’ve been sharing for the last two years, while she was here on a grant project. I made ramp dip and took veggies & chips for dipping, and a little Chex mix that I’d made for Feast Forward Saturday. With olive oil instead of butter as an experiment to make it dairy-free.
I biked to the dentist, and got there a little early, and they didn’t take me until almost 25 minutes past my 2:00 PM appointment time – which I thought was rather rude, since they’ve been texting me appointment reminders every other day for the last three weeks. I didn’t notice anything on the ride back to the office, but when I came out with 20 minutes to get to that short meeting on the west edge of campus, my front bike tire was almost flat. There used to be an airhose at the Union right next to my building, but it’s been moved due to remodeling, and the closest one I could think of was at the Lakeshore dorms, a little past where I needed to be. But I got there, pumped up my tire, and looped back to the meeting. When I came out the next time, my tire was flat flat, so I called Mark to come and get me. We took the bike to Budget and $40 later, it was all fixed.
Then we headed over to the east side to meet Heike at gallery night. Which was fun – we started with Dan Slick’s show at Liberation Realty, and then wandered through a few other places, and finally got dinner at Jamerica. Which I really kind of regretted. Even though I liked the ambience, and helping myself to a beer from the cooler, my BBQ tofu was kind of a big plate of slop. Heike’s mango curry tofu was a lot tastier. I should’ve gotten something safe, like Mark’s jerk chicken, that he said was every bit as good as what you got when Jamerica was a food cart. Probably we should’ve gotten dinner from one of the carts – they were lining Willy St. Mostly, I don’t think I should’ve eaten dinner at all – after snacky stuff at work, and art opening food. Dan made some coffee ice cream that was really good.