Friday May 15
There was a triple reason to be in the Department today - Kris was defending her dissertation (which she did ably, advised by Holt), there would be champagne (oh all right, Gruet d'Albuquerque) to celebrate that occasion, and all the stars coincided to make all this occur on the day of Jean Wellington's Annual Cream Tea.
Jean must spend DAYS preparing this, and it is done not just with culinary skill (especially evident in the fluffy scones with cream and jam, about six assorted cakes, bûche d'aucun Noël, giant fresh strawberries, and the perfectly-trimmed tea sandwiches, of cucumber, curried chicken, and smoked salmon) but with the precision of a trained librarian, with each milk and coffee jug precisely labeled with its contents, and the whole wheeled in on a library book cart. All that work - and it took a hungry crew of faculty and grad students about 20 minutes to demolish it all.
So we considered that dinner. And just to keep the protein levels up, around 8 PM we had a few slices of cold roast pork from Saturday and London Broil from Wednesday.
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