The Professors Emeriti

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Brain cancer is...

 ...married to Andrea M. Guillaume, Professor of Elementary and Bilingual Education, Emeritus.

Today I received notification of my emeritus status.  So soon?  For one point (grade your own work), which of the five bullets in the above list do we most immediately appreciate?

Check your work.

Yes, free parking.  We'll stop having parking deducted from my check and, at Kim N.'s suggestion, put it toward funding the next vacation.

The sound of "emeritus" is also cool.  It sounds like I am immediately wiser, yes?  Darrell should listen to his wise, Emeritus wife.  So should you all.

In other news:  I spent the day with terrific friends and colleagues from CSUF.

Darrell and I traded Alaska stories with Kim N. over coffee.  (Kim and her family's Alaskan trip overlapped with ours.)  Kim and her family spent more time on Alaskan soil and went farther north.  Kim also learned things I couldn't possibly learn (remember the necessity of 3-hour breakfasts).  Here's just one example:

This is a photo from our southernmost port, Ketchikan.  That purple-flowered plant, according to Kim, is fireweed.  Fireweed blooms from the bottom up.  See how the blooms end and the buds begin half way up?  According to Kim, when the buds become blooms at the top of the stalk, summer is over.  

Here's the same flower at our northernmost port, Juneau:

Why do you have to be such a braniac, Kim?  (Kidding. It was great to fill in the blanks of our experience with vicarious ones from you.)

Even though I spent the day with great people, all I got was pictures of food.  For 0 points, because I don't want to hear your answers, what does it say about me that here's what I saw today:

Christine's famous brownies

Kim's Homage to Guillaumes' candy bowl

Breakfast for days from Kim:  Nothing Bundt Cakes!

Thanks for being a part of our life, CSUF friends and colleagues and all y'all.  (So sayeth the wise Professor Emeritus of Elementary and Bilingual Education.)

Bonus Content:  Yesterday's Photo, for Two Points

Yesterday's photo was taken in the family room, where we really did get rid of a fridge that held burritos, La Croix, and in the freezer, meat.  Here it is:

January 2017:  Fridge...and Mousse practicing his social skill of blending, or matching the actions of his cool wiser cousin, Beowulf

July 25, 2018:  Same view, no fridge, no dogs.

 Good night everyone!