Yesterday was not a very noteworthy day, so I didn't blog. However, today was quite eventful. I had to work on campus because we had mandatory training in the test environment of the new system, for which I was very glad. I sat by Seabird and another colleague who works in my building, and we tried to figure out what to do. I just kept hitting buttons until something worked, which is fine in the test environment but probably not a winning strategy when the new system goes live. I even created an expense report (for myself by accident, because I am a dork) in which I flew to Omaha on Aer Lingus to attend the annual conference of the Society of Dutch Shoe Aficionados. (Does this society actually exist?? Autofill filled it in! No - there is no sign of it on Google.) Then I sent one of the women leading things to Noah's Ark in the Dells, although she said she wished I would have sent her to Europe. Maybe next time. I'm not sure if I'm the first person to figure out how to do it correctly, but she projected my expense report so that we could all see what the faculty will see when we create these for them, and her receipt was a photo I stole off the internet of an aurora in an arc like a rainbow.
After lunch my coworker, the colleague from our building, and I met Seabird on Bascom Hill for the annual Ice Cream Social. Seabird's favorite flavor is Blue Moon, and to her delight it was one of the options this year. The rest of us had orange custard chocolate chip, as usual. There was a new flavor: strawberry pretzel salad ice cream. That just seems like a random bunch of nouns stuck together, but Seabird and our other colleague were curious about it, so after we had stood around chatting for a while, they wanted to go get some more. They tried to get me to go too, but I figured with my loud Bahamas tie-dyed shirt and large white sunhat the people serving the ice cream would remember me and say, "No more for you!" More importantly, I was way too stuffed to eat any more ice cream - Seabird said, "Don't you even want a bite of mine?" and I said no thanks. Also, the way my coworker explained what he thought the flavor would be like (those weird Jello-based salads with random things stuck in them), it didn't sound very appealing at all. He and I headed back to our offices, since I had yet another meeting. Our other colleague was supposed to attend it too, but I don't know if she made it, and Seabird wasn't invited. Lucky her.
After the meeting I took a walk and sniffed the Japanese lilac trees, and also this bush, which is apparently a Chinese privet. It smelled really good.
Famous Hat
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