Duke Orientation and Cats at Dinner

Well, I had my first day of Orientation at Duke today. It was a great experience! Everyone was really nice and of course the Divinity school building is great. I met up with a guy married to a friend of mine from NCC and he gave me a professor recommendation for my Hebrew class, so that was certainly a positive interaction! I also met a very nice lady who lives down the street from me - helpful for when I might need to carpool. It was an interesting mix of informational lectures and inspirational messages. We also had communion. We didn't do anything in the Duke Chapel - we were in the Goodson Chapel which adjoins Duke Chapel. I'll be able to register tomorrow which I'm looking forward to! The parking pass situation is a little complicated right now, but fortunately my class starts at 1:30 on the days it meets, which means if I leave early enough, I'll have plenty of time to navigate the Duke bus system to get from my assigned parking to the Divinity School. (Translation - my lot is WAY far away). In short, it was a uniformly positive and pleasing experience. I'm looking forward to starting class.

And then tonight at dinner our cats joined us! Sometimes Pip will hop up on the chair and sit at it watching us eat. We allow this because he's just on the chair and he doesn't try to eat our food. Sometimes we give him a tiny scrap, but we put it on the floor. Tonight Dale was eating potato chips, however. This is the only food that Shadow will fight Pip to eat. Shadow will passively watch Pip eat any of his food except potato chips! So tonight, just after Pip hopped up, Shadow jumped into the seat next to Dale. We had our whole family at the table. :)