Today was a surprisingly fun day on campus, but I don't feel like a lot of work got done. I was working in the morning and then got so hungry at 10:30 that I ate the slice of pizza that Travalon got for me last night. Then Seabird and I went on a tour of the new Morgridge Building, which involved going up six flights of stairs (according to my phone), and some of them were very scary so I gave up and took the elevator up. However, that had a strange squeak that was wigging out the students in it, so it wasn't much less scary than the crazy staircases. I should have taken a photo of the stairs so you could see what I mean. There were terraces out on the third and seventh floor, and those were cool. Here are some photos.
On the sixth floor was a room with little robots that play soccer.
Later in the day a faculty member came to my office with a donut for me, so I ate it. Then a colleague said her coworker's birthday was today, so Seabird and I went up there, and I sang him "Happy Birthday" in
Basque. He had one sweet potato donut left, so Seabird and I split it. From our colleague's office window, you could see lots of
fall colors on campus.
After work we had a sort-of Union meeting, because our local was just merged with another local so we can't do real business anymore. We had pizza, so what a day of nutrition for me: pizza for lunch, pizza for dinner, and a donut and a half for snacks. I also brought some to Travalon because the only ones eating it were me and the guy who looks like a leprechaun; only one other officer showed up, and she can't eat pizza because she's allergic to garlic. We already share an office with the other local, so it's not like we have to move anything. The weird thing is the international said we have to clear out our bank account, send it to them, and they will send it to the other local. We thought we would just write the other local a check. Also, we have three CDs and will get penalties if we cash them out, so obviously that isn't ideal. We're waiting to hear if those can be handled another way. It seemed like a good idea a couple of years ago to stretch our thin resources, but now it's becoming an issue.
Across town, Jilly Moose also has fall colors where she lives.
I don't think this year will be as colorful as other years because of the drought conditions, but things are finally starting to get going with the fall colors. I hope we can get to
Devil's Lake soon to check out how the trees are doing there.
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