Lunch Special

Yesterday, Shoofly strolled over to the campus with her baby to meet me for lunch on the green. It was a very welcome change of pace. Baby Shoo was intrigued by the helium balloons tethered to a lamp post for a campus Israel fest, Isrealpalooza.

The students on this campus tend to take anything --a social event, a political cause, a nation state-- and associate it with an unrelated mass marketed consumer product. In this case, students sported Israel as mints t-shirts. Israel, like Altoids, is curiously strong. Actually, you can make all kinds of connections between Israel and Altoids, but I'm not going there.

Spring brings many outdoor rallies. Earlier in the week at the campus multicultural fest, a co-ed troupe of Asian dancers drew a crowd with some kind of hip-hop meets traditional stick dance. At first I thought "only in America." But then I thought, "naw, probably in Canada, too, at least. Definitely in the Philippines." I give the dancers props for not wearing t-shirts that said "Got Bamboo?" or "Tinikling gives you wings."

Anyway, I'm so happy that Shoofly and her little one decided to make their lunch time visit. They are great company.