Among the many things that have gone unblogged during this semester of filled evenings and busy mornings and much frenetic activity in between is the begining of decant. At some point after Stephen Ross gave $100m to the school but before Christmas break the powers that be decided to call our intra-building, inter-building shuffling 'decant.' So, classes have moved to Wyly hall as have professors and administrators; TMI offices are where marketing offices used to be. A reasonable person is left wondering why this is the best way to proceed but also why we haven't had access to the incredibly posh digs of Wyly prior to this point.
Snow returned to Michigan today with a clingy 1/2 inch layer. For whatever reason I was struck this afternoon by the incredible sound insulating quality of a dense layer of snow has - the squealing of steering pumps and undergrads are muted to almost nothing all over campus.
Abby and I met with Heather Brown from the Development Office to forge ahead with the art website. It was a promising meeting that ended with several action items on her end and a holding pattern on ours. If all goes well it feels like this thing will be off the ground in no time flat, but we're working at the whim of somebody else (twice) and an IT department at a school.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006