{"id":573891051,"date":"2019-02-18T21:45:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T02:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891051"},"modified":"2019-03-06T10:55:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T15:55:07","slug":"happy-presidents-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/02\/18\/happy-presidents-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Presidents Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a whole post here, and the computer, or WordPress or the ‘net ate it somehow. I had a Presidents Day joke and everything. So this will be brief and, probably, better. We have a Presidents Hall in our building at work. It is for university presidents, and when you run this place one day, you, too, can have a painting on the wall. <\/p>\n

Today it is a giant banquet hall, more square footage than our house. It was once the grand reading room when our building was the university’s library, until 1969 or so. After that our building served in an administrative capacity and the grand reading room it became a testament to modern 1970s office innovation: cubicles.<\/p>\n

Saturday, I was at work, this is our “living room.” <\/p>\n

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I didn’t go into Presidents Hall at all, Saturday or today. I’ll show it to you sometime. Saturday, though, was Direct Admit Day. Some of the fall term’s incoming freshmen sat in our giant “living room.” I put this on Twitter and … <\/p>\n

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Someone forgot I work here? To be fair, you never know who is running a group account. Maybe they didn’t read my Twitter bio. Or maybe someone thought all of the pre-frosh followed my account. At least there was a retweet. That’s about the extent of it. <\/p>\n

Also this chilly weekend:<\/p>\n

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Such a ridiculous winter I'm outside thinking "Beautiful day! Spring is around the corner!" \u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800 It is 37, feels like 30\u00b0. \u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800 \u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800 But I'll stay warm because I'm wearing this Christmas fleece from my mother-in-law. And, while I love a good fleece, I enjoy her hand-stamped notes and cards even more!<\/a><\/p>\n

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