Tastefully Simple meets Cage Dancing

Hal writes:

I tend to write about my co-workers a great deal, which makes sense because in addition to working with them during the day this is also my core group of friends in Platteville. And since most of us are "E's" on the Myers-Briggs type indicator, we draw our energy from group activities.

Thursday night was sign-up night for housing on campus. I already completed the process for my hall two weeks earlier, but the other halls had an internal sign-up process in their halls earlier in the week. The Thursday night was for students who wanted to move to different halls on campus for next year. Unlike in past years where this occurred in the individual halls, we decided to have all of us in the basement of the dining hall for sign-up. Since my building was full, I played crowd control, line monitor, and joke teller to the people who were waiting in line to sign up. To make sure everyone knew I was in charge, I wore my ref jersey for the occasion.

After an evening of worked up students, it was time to relax. The RDs started off the evening with sampling of items from the Tastefully Simple catalogue. In the past couple of years, we have had a few parties and we are all familiar with the products, so this time we just made a number of items for people to eat and handed out order sheets. Pictured below was the "dip area" where you can see Anna made cards to let you know which dip was "Onion Onion", "Fiesta Party Dip", etc., etc. If you would like to order some wonderful products from Tastefully Simple, I would suggest placing an order with our consultant by clicking here.

As I have probably mentioned before, my hall is not 100% complete. Prior to students moving in this past fall there was a flurry of activity to get the things that "need" to get done completed prior to student arrival. The rest of items on the punch list are not, as my friends in maintenance would say, a "priority". One of those items was a storage space for me. Each RD has a storage space in the basement, but Anna and I have been without one since we moved to the new building. But new developments have occurred, and the construction of a cage is almost complete in our basement. After eating tastefully simple, the RDs went to the forbidden basement for some cage dancing, which consisted of a CD player, a strobe light, and what will one day be the RD storage. Pictured below are my colleagues in the cage.

Among the fun treasures to find amidst the basement was a button that is an emergency shutdown for some machinery in the basement. Below Stef and Matt and playing "Deal or No Deal" with the button. What do you think? Deal or No Deal?

Anna was unable to attend the coffee convention in Chicago due to weather. Her and her coworkers only made it a few miles out of town last night before turning back. But I am happy to report my parents made it back from their "spring break" trip in Florida.