My Weekend

[ndrosen]

Here I am in New York City, at a Board meeting of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation. We didn't get as far through the agenda as planned this afternoon, partly because we had a disputed presidential election, resulting in a tie vote, and a dispute about what to do next (flip a coin, vote again in the morning after the two candidates had given prepared answers to a particular question, etc.). We ended up balloting again, this time with the result that the challenger was elected our new president. We're about to go out to dinner at a restaurant a few blocks away, and then meet at 8:00 AM tomorrow (earlier than what our schedule called for) to elect our other officers, finish other business planned for this afternoon, and then do what had already been planned for tomorrow.