Home alone
S. is in Australia for a week (Godmother for little Thomas on Sunday, seeing family and friends in Adelaide for a few days, meetings, etc); she left Wednesday afternoon and are coming back Thursday evening. So I'm home alone (no, not like in the movie). So what do I do?
Well, I go to work - which is getting more interesting. Friday afternoon we co-hosted a reception for a Vietnamese bio-tech delegation and US Senator Thomas Carper (Dem). I was just talking to a (very dull) Dean of a Delaware business school, when the Senator walked in. As we were standing closest to the door, we basically got to welcome him to the reception, and have a little chat (mostly about Norway).
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This whole having to wear a suit thing is still new too me, but I'm getting used to it. Currently I have 3 suits, 7 shirts and 5 ties to alternate between, which should be enough. But some of the ties are a bit boring, and they are almost all blue or yellow. My shirts are even worse: blue or white. So I've been thinking about livening up the tie and shirt collection a little. Problem is that most of the ties I like are US$45 to US$59, and that's just a little too expensive.
Saturday, when I was out walking, I decided to walk through my favorite store, Lord&Taylor, in Center City. I do like it because they usually have good stuff on sale, but that can be said for most stores here (no sales tax on clothes helps). What most stores do not have though, is a playing pipe organ. That's right: this department store has the world's largest playing pipe organ. It's magnificent. And it really belongs in a grand Cathedral. Yet, imagine doing your Christmas shopping there: Christmas carols played on the organ during the day. The rest of the year they still play songs at noon (it sounds great).
Anyway, it wasn't the music that made me shop there today. It was the 60% off the already reduced price. How can you say no to a nice silk tie (or three) reduced from US$40 to US$7? Colors? Dark blue, light blue, and yellow/gold with blue stripes...
Well, I go to work - which is getting more interesting. Friday afternoon we co-hosted a reception for a Vietnamese bio-tech delegation and US Senator Thomas Carper (Dem). I was just talking to a (very dull) Dean of a Delaware business school, when the Senator walked in. As we were standing closest to the door, we basically got to welcome him to the reception, and have a little chat (mostly about Norway).
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This whole having to wear a suit thing is still new too me, but I'm getting used to it. Currently I have 3 suits, 7 shirts and 5 ties to alternate between, which should be enough. But some of the ties are a bit boring, and they are almost all blue or yellow. My shirts are even worse: blue or white. So I've been thinking about livening up the tie and shirt collection a little. Problem is that most of the ties I like are US$45 to US$59, and that's just a little too expensive.
Saturday, when I was out walking, I decided to walk through my favorite store, Lord&Taylor, in Center City. I do like it because they usually have good stuff on sale, but that can be said for most stores here (no sales tax on clothes helps). What most stores do not have though, is a playing pipe organ. That's right: this department store has the world's largest playing pipe organ. It's magnificent. And it really belongs in a grand Cathedral. Yet, imagine doing your Christmas shopping there: Christmas carols played on the organ during the day. The rest of the year they still play songs at noon (it sounds great).
Anyway, it wasn't the music that made me shop there today. It was the 60% off the already reduced price. How can you say no to a nice silk tie (or three) reduced from US$40 to US$7? Colors? Dark blue, light blue, and yellow/gold with blue stripes...
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