School is wasted on the young.

Prof Lal (to an MSO sales person): So why aren't you in this [Netflix] business?
MSO guy: That's a good question.
Prof Lal (crossly): THAT'S WHY I ASKED IT!

MSO marketing person (about the importance of image to tradesmen segment of power tools customers): They want to walk around the [job] site with a swagger, waving their orange...shotguns around. (quiet titters)
Prof Lal: What kind of product are you describing again? (outright laughter)
Another MSO person behind me (sotto voce): It's 9:30. Awfully early for things to go down the toilet.

"Is he breathing??" - JK, my seatmate, after long period of motionless, blinkless, frozen smiling by Ron Drapeau to open his HBS interview video

I gave a joke answer to a question (of the throwing-back-in-his-face-what-he-had-just-said kind) (gaming as a substitute for anything), which resulted in a very gratifying general roar of laughter and, even more gratifying, the professor stabbing a finger at me and shouting "BAD ANSWER!" I enjoyed it hugely, kinda like I've always wanted to get arrested just a little bit to see what it's like.

There were PEONY BUSHES in front of the library!! Bursting spectacularly! I took many ecstatic sniffs.

Another comically gorgeous day - took Anderson Bridge w/Lauren to square to pop into Coop. Painfully nostalgic as usual.

Also, a reminder to self:

SMOLENSKI,
SMOLENSKI,
SMOLENSKI.