Life of Wry

Know what made my day? Hearing from this guy:

He may not be able to maintain a healthy sock collection (in spite of lots of new socks every Christmas from us!), but he is living his best life. Today’s unexpected call (and news dump) included all kinds of juicy bits about conferences he’s been invited to speak at (two this summer), summer trips he’s hoping to take, and the confirmation that he and Maya are seriously considering joining us in Italy for a hiking trip in the Dolomites. Calls like this, if they happen at all, typically come in at about 9am Pacific time (noon in Ann Arbor) and coincide with his walk from his office on campus to The Lunch Room, a vegan restaurant a few blocks away, where he orders (I believe) the same thing every day. In the course of our conversation with him, we often overhear his arrival at the restaurant, the greeting he receives (“Hey Peter,” “Hey Matt”), and the thank yous he responds with as he’s walking out the door… it’s pretty sweet to be along for that little slice of his daily life.

Our take away: he’s happy, thriving, comfortably settled.

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That picture was surreptitiously taken over Thanksgiving (as he sat in the very chair I’m writing this blog from). Lol.

Lazily, I abused preposition placement twice in one blog post. [Hangs head.]