Craziness

Eric has been cleaning out his office and has found a few gems worth blogging about. These fall into the category of: and I thought I was insane, but...
Who knew that in the mid 90s, our department offered ski/conversation classes. Yup. You could get credit for skiing in German, skiing in Italian, etc.
Here's a gem from some 1994 meeting minutes:
The following amendments to the Merit Committee document were approved:
a...
b. that there be a sliding scale...
c. that the sliding scale be eliminated...
d....

It also turns out that the department voted on all sorts of things that never actually got put into practice.

What fun.

Happy New Year

Out with the old and in with the new. So far the Christmas tree stands denuded of its decorations, but still shedding profusely in the family room. We haven't yet figured out how the robotic vacumn cleaner direct from Taiwan works, but it should prove essential when the tree has been dragged out and shed all its needles. Both front and back yards are deep in snow - Craig has shoveled a path from dog door to off the deck for the obvious reasons. This allows Sadie to get to her special spot - repository of all her treasures. On Christmas morning this included Sam's wrapped ipod stolen from under the tree in the dead of night. For those of you haven't heard, I spent the first minutes of Christmas day knee deep in snow, in the dark, digging for the thing. I found it, a t-shirt, a stuffed animal, two paper plates, and well, you get the idea.
Since then, I've been to Chicago for the annual conference where I got to stay in a hotel room with two bathrooms... Got back in time to ring in the new year at Ted's where there was some truly abysmal karaoke and delicious food.