2 updates.

1) At a year-end academic function, they did end up catering in African food from that one African restaurant!

2) Am figuring out what's happening with my dissertation proposal - when I sent out one revision to the 3 profs with their suggested changes, I noted that the proposal was already at 13 pages (there's a 7-page limit), and at my colloquium they required me to put in more additions, which boots the page length up to 15! My advisor just emailed me to make sure to talk to my one (black) (female) dean about that, so I'm going to set up an appointment with her...