This is the last week of winter break and though I've been going into the office for work the past week and have been working off and on for the past two and a half, on a good day without any meetings, I can still get away with dressing like a schlub (well, I often do that) and not bumping into anyone I know except the security guards and CB. I don't need to impress CB.
I had a late start this morning (CB calls it "life administration"), didn't make the gun policy summit I had intended to, and didn't get around to leaving for school, un-showered, until about 11am. Luckily, I bumped into CB (my J'Hop "little boss") at the bus shuttle. It's OK to be super late to work if your supervisor is also a slacker.
It was another hour until I got into a work groove at school and put the gun policy summit live webcast on as background noise (as some do) and discovered, via a Q & A session, that Prof Papa was in attendance. He's a big deal in guns, but since he wasn't a presenter (his co-author was, and I pretended to be surprised to see him at breakfast yesterday even though I totally hoped to bump into him), I thought he'd stayed in Boston. He may have meant to tell me in an email yesterday, but what he ended up sending was the word "Howdyrff." I couldn't tell what that meant.
Super excited to see Prof Papa in B'more, I grabbed my ID, left the office, and ran down 2 blocks to catch the last 5 minutes of the summit so that I could say hi. Did I mention that I was wearing flannel today? And grey sneakers? I really didn't expect to see anyone. What I ended up doing however, was seeing Papa in my disheveled form, meeting a colleague of his, seeing many of mine, and having lunch with 3 of my friends. Lesson learned: It's always a good idea to shower.
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