Thursday, August 24, 2006

Cornell by numbers

9: required texts for a course on Power and Resistance (not, as Terry thought, a course on weight training - the full course title is "Masks of Power and Strategies of Resistance and Subversion." The professor is from Iraq!)
176.28: dollars spent on said textbooks
99: number of pages read last night from first of said textbooks
15: record number of 1st-year masters and PhD students admitted to the field this year
14: number of female 1st-years
15: number of minutes walk to McGraw where the Anthropology department is located
89: number of stair steps between the suspension pedestrian bridge and the street
1: number of people who thought the dinner and orientation at the home of the Director of Graduate Studies for Anthropology was supposed to be a pot-luck; also the number of people who spent 2 hours making eggplant dip (from this book) and working up an embarrassing sweat while getting disoriented leaving her neighborhood and taking the long way around and ending up 15 minutes late... (it's all good though, the dip was a big hit and the DGS will never forget who I am!)
410: number of miles from our front door in the 'Burg to our front (i.e. back) door in Ithaca, via route 81
6.5: number of hours of actual driving time along said route, barring weather, construction, accidents, etc.
2: number of times per week, on average, Terry will be making that trip.
4: number of new friends whose digits I have saved on my cell phone
0: number of knitters among those new friends

1 comment:

tara said...

ok it's only in the menno world where people expect you to bring your own meal when you are invited to someone's house :)

that's too funny!

there must be a stich-n-bitch in ithaca!

maybe you could start one-
the hippy knitty-