Today is over-the-hump day of my new distance graduate students’ orientation bootcamp. I’m soooo tired – although they’re all probably tireder than me. We put on an ice cream social for them – the University Housing catering service serving the University Creamery (Babcock Hall) ice cream. Other years I had catered it myself, biking to the campus diary store, and bringing back an assortment of flavors of ice cream in my paniers, making a Costco run for plastic spoons and toppings – but this year it seemed a much better idea to let the catering service do it. They sent two young guys to scoop the ice cream (who also helped me move the furniture in the SLIS Commons into more of a conversational arrangement, instead of the classroom style it had been in). We got to add our own toppings – caramel & chocolate sauce, health bar bits, crushed malted milk balls, raspberry and strawberry sauces, Butterfinger bits, some kind of chocolate-peanut butter blobs – and of course whipped cream and cherries. Dinner for me.
Babcock Dairy Ice Cream, Photo by UW-Madison, University Communications
