a mish mash of events

BANG!

My week starts like that, in fact the BANG is starts even before that last Friday, when Dave arrives in town. He was visiting me for the weekend and I had one of the best weekends ever in my life. We spent time by the pool at my place - it was cold, but the hot tub was great - showed him around campus and went to Quiessence for dinner. Quiessence is a restaurant in town that I discovered on the net. We had an 8 course meal in the garden by a brick oven with a roaring fire and fairy lights (people laugh at me when I say fairy lights by the way!).

Then the week starts and classes resume - it's been tough trying to keep up and pick the routine again. Looks like this trimester I will have a lot more group assignments which is good, cause it means that I get to boss people around.

To top it all off, last night I was invited to the Board of Trusteees dinner. This is the Group of rich men and women who support the University. One of the Trustees at my table announced that he was donating 10m$ to the school, there and then! It was heady stuff, with one of the ladies telling me all about the huge dilemma of where to build the new villa in Hawaii...It was almost surreal!

This weekend is the Super Bowl weekend and the final is in Phoenix. It is HUGE!!! Everyone is very excited and though my favourite team has not made it (Go Cowboys!), I will be watching it at Tara's place. I am sure it will be fun.

All for now lads and lasses, a new chapter will be awaiting for you next week, when I will talk about the benefits of farming chicken in the sea...

T'pants