It’s nice if you can be an adult for your students

Yesterday I made a pattern for the front of the shirt, cut out a new yoke
and front, and stay-stitched the bias edges. After lunch I signed on to a
zoom meeting from the Olin President search committee, which turned out to
be less a presentation and more a call for input and lively discussion
about what alumni want for Olin in the future and how the next president
should serve that. Interesting disagreement on whether the next president
should or need not be an engineer—I happen to be in the need-not-be camp;
we had 20 years of excellent connections from R in the engineering world,
and I firmly believe we should spend the next 20 on what was left out.

At work I picked LIA back up and got a rough web interface for
categories/concepts in place.

We had dinner with A at Pino’s; they didn’t have the tempura veg I was
hoping for but they were able to to beans&greens without garlic so I was
happy. A was unexpectedly tempted by one of the specials, a fish roulade
with roasted vegetables that made for an absolutely gorgeous plate.
Excellent conversation as always.

Afterwards we walked around Mellon Park, too early for the starlights in
the lawn but the herb garden made up for it. Also encountered an amazing
scented flowering tree called a Japanese Snowbell that I’m now lusting for
a bit. We caught the sunset from a bench in Schenley, then dropped me at
home so I could bedtime routine while P put A on campus where she and her
luggage were to catch a taxi to the airport hotel for an early morning
flight.