@sgadarian Yes! I was really grateful to meet a bunch of experienced chairs (mostly scientists, as it happened) who were very useful mentors my first year.
@sgadarian Where is it being held? They used to do that years ago -- I was super grateful that they had one of those sessions the summer before I started my term as chair. It was at Colgate, which was fun.
You know you live in a small town when the owner of the local diner posts on Facebook telling the folks who have chickens that he'll pay $3 a dozen for eggs -- which leads to a long thread about people's chickens not laying because it's so hot. And foxes, of course.
Wegmans update: Tanlenti Madagascar Vanilla Bean Gelato, which disappeared in the early days of the pandemic, is back!! Also, mask-wearing is way up from 9 days ago.
@KBAndersen Love to Kate and Sanford! Did you officiate? We were just showing Louis & Sabine photos of E & S wedding, with you running the show . . .
@martinimade I will bail you out of jail in solidarity! Fortunately, I have now persuaded someone else (an engineer!) to be the treasurer and submit the reports. I will say, in defense of the NYS BOE, that if you get hold of a real person on the phone, they are invariably nice and helpful.
@lukeradel@donna_shelton Remember when she accused Anthony Brindisi of having ties to the mob? Or when she said Colgate University was “a left wing crazy school and has only gotten worse”? She’s always been mean.