Telluride House The Cornell Branch of Telluride Association

You know the semester is really over when the House empties out. At this point, the only ones here are a few international students, dissertating graduates, and unfortunates whose travel was foiled by the annual blizzard that hits Ithaca around the last day of exams. A few of us will continue to dwell on the premises through the break.

The present blogger will spend the rest of the day duffing around in his jammies.

Iris and Hyunok break from packing and grading for post-semestral comfort food (gnocchi).

Posted under Musings, Pictures

Here are a couple of pictures from our Halloween formal dinner, though I can’t seem to find pictures from the actual dinner itself. I guess people were hungry or tipsy from cocktail hour beforehand. Here’s a picture of Jim and Julie posing in front of the coffin:

and here are some people dancing afterward, including me in the foreground and our faculty fellow Suman in the background:

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At the beginning of the year we went on a one-day bonding retreat to Watkins Glen where we took walks, barbecued food, and played board games. Here are Martin, Breanna, and Steph at the playground looking like the thoughtful and lively people they are:

Here’s Brandy showing off her fire-manipulation skills with a practice fire thingie that I don’t know what to call. These skills are apparently acquired at Burning Man:

And here are Vinod, Jim, and Daniel our male grad student crew at the lakeside restaurant for dinner:

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