Thursday 5 March
On top of yesterday's snow
emergency, today was the day that our prospective graduate students were supposed
to fly in. Some of them actually made
it, though several were stranded at airports across the country. So it was a smaller crowd than expected that
gathered at Jack's palatial home for a welcome-to-Cincinnati meet-the-faculty
dinner.
A kind, tuxedoed server offered
appetizers which we gobbled hungrily, only later wondering what sort of cuisine
would be offered after a platter that combined spanakopita, mustardy cheese puffs, and pigs in blankets.
We soon found out. The company responsible was called "A
Catered Affair," and it seemed like they circulated endlessly to put out a
single table of three chafing dishes, a bowl of salad, and some fruit. Their crab crepes were just edible, but the
only other dishes were vegetable penne with barely any vegetables, and some
olive-drab broccoli.
Confirmed
meatatarians just had to cope, and it could not have been called an impressive
spread even by graduate-students-to-be.
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