Cookies.

This Romanian ph.d. student presented a paper at a workshop today. His grandmother is living here with him and his wife for a few months since his wife just had their first baby, and for his presentation he brought in a tray of cookies.

"These are from my grandmother," he was like, "She said that if you don't my paper, perhaps you still like her cookies."

He also said when going through the history of scholarship and referring to an article from 1933, after a pause when he said the year, "That was the year that my grandmother was born."