May's Mutterings

Category: school

  • Dinner party – December 2015

    Some friends of ours were hosting a dinner party as part of a school event, and we offered to help out with the cooking. They kindly agreed to let us do so and, again, with major help from Robert, Jim’s nephew, we served the following: Apple rutabaga soup with gougeres and Parmesan tuiles (wine: 2002…

  • Winter Holiday Concert

    Here is Weiwei’s handchime choir performance at the school’s winter holiday concert.  (Which, of course, begs the question of what winter holiday you are celebrating on January 16, 2014.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRl8UVQk4rs&feature=youtu.be  

  • Snow Day Activities

    While the MLK long weekend gave us sunny and even warm (relatively speaking) weather, Tuesday brought us 6 inches of snow.  For hardy Midwesterners and New Englanders, this amount might be a mere blip on the winter radar.  However, for the mid-Atlantic and for DC in particular, it’s enough to shut down the federal government…

  • Dinner with Friends, Take 2

    We hosted another dinner party as part of our donation to our school’s auction to raise money for financial aid.  During the time between our first school auction dinner party and this one, we bought a new dining room table and chairs, so this is what the new setup looks like (we’re quite pleased with…

  • Teaching at Stanford Law School

    For the months of April and May, I have been teaching a class at Stanford Law School called “Internet Torts and Crimes.”  This means I’ve been flying out once a week to Palo Alto to teach the class. Teaching the class has been a blast!  The students have all been great, and I have learned…

  • Protected: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

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  • Jig of Joy (aka The First Day of School)

    One of my favorite commercials is the Staples commercial where a family is buying school supplies.  The kids are moping and depressed and the dad is dancing with glee while the song “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” is playing in the background. And that is where we are.  I danced a jig of…