R.B.O. the-semester-is-almost-overness

• Lily, knowing that she shouldn’t say a curse word, spelled out shit in a conversation the other day, the same way T and I spell things out when we don’t want her to know what we’re talking about (that hasn’t actually worked in a while).
• I sat in on a colleague’s economics class today and happened to catch a lesson on the Nash Equilibrium, which of course I knew a little bit about because of the film A Beautiful Mind. See, watching movies really is educational.
• Spent some time today on a list of things to do around Denver for the WPA Planning Committee. Nice to surf the Internet for information on Red Rocks Park & Amphitheatre, hikes around Evergreen, and other similarly non-academic topics and legitimately call it work.
• I’m trying to figure out if I can manage to go to my krav maga class and catch a colleague’s art show opening on Friday night. Krav maga is 6-7 and the art opening runs until 9, so I should have just enough time to shower after class and still get to the gallery in a timely fashion, right?
• A student is planning a summer trip to Italy, which has gotten me reminiscing about Vivoli, a great gelato place in Florence, on an alley with a porn theatre. How often to great frozen desserts share alleys with port theaters? Has anyone ever studied this? Would make a fine dissertation topic for someone, I’m sure.

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