Today’s choice bit of weirdness:
I’m sitting out my office hour for the afternoon flipping through the internet, and the Dean of the college I work in stops outside my door, glances in, and says to whoever he’s talking to: I’ll just be a minute… I have to fondle something.
Now as it turns out, he was refering to a rather nice chess set I keep in my office. And, true to his words, he walked in and weighed a couple of the shiny metal pieces is his hand, chatted with me for a moment, and then left to go and do important Dean things.
For a second, though, it felt like there was a sitcom moment waiting to happen, and I’d half-braced myself for the laugh track.