Since I last wrote
•Get a haircut
•Attend faculty retirement party
•Go grocery shopping at Trader Joe's (a task made much more tolerable with Scott)
•Proctor the Extended Time Testing Final for History Department
•Get Subaru's oil changed
•Proctor Math Finals
•Grade Math Finals (2 pages of 50 Honors Geometry and all 35 Geometry)
•Calculate, determine and submit Spring Semester and Year grades
•Attend Senior Project Presentation Evening
•The Congressional Quarterly's 2006 Guide to Congress arrives
•Little sleep as Ernie now knows Gwen Moore (D-WIS) is a new congresswoman
•Fly to Seattle
•See all the nurses and Dr. B in the Foot and Ankle Clinic at Harborview
•Dr. B and Dr. Schuberth (Kaiser's Foot and Ankle specialist and is former president of the Association of Foot and Angle Surgeon's) talk, Schuberth agrees to work on allowing Kaiser to allow me out of network surgery
•One hour later, word comes that Kaiser denies out of network surgery
•Fly back to Bay Area
•Have first misunderstanding with Scott (the Ernie Operating Manual is more complicated than first thought)
•Find out from Dr. Schuberth's nurse that she is filing paperwork and so there still is hope for out of network surgery
•Serve as model patient for 1st year UCSF Medical students (musco-skeletal exam)
•Say goodbye to two colleagues at a dinner
•Gather further evidence that the Math Department is weird
•Attend graduation rehearsal
•Get confronted by Shahana about my crappy treatment of her and discover that the issues come down to ones of boundaries (S, if you're reading this did I cross one by posting here?)
•Final Math Department meeting of the year
•Order Dad the most PERFECT Father's Day Gift
•Attend advisees graduation party
•Get up at 5AM to set up mile markers (and directional arrows) 5 through 18 for Scott's training group's 23 mile run
•Attend graduation and well up with tears for the first time EVER
•Take a breather and write this posting......