Faculty Basketball at Skidmore

Now that I work at Skidmore, I can play "noontime faculty/staff basketball". Games are held Monday, Wednesday and Friday at, you guessed it, noon. You can always judge how good a college is by how competitive the faculty basketball is (uh....not really- but wouldn't that be neat to see in the guidebooks?).

Here are some pictures from the last outing.
Executing the triangle offense
Sometimes we play soccer too (click on photo)!
Some of the professors can really play:)

Chowderfest!


Chowderfest 2008!

I have been busy reading applications and I haven't had time to blog as much as I want to. Here is a post about Chowderfest!
http://www.discoversaratoga.org/Chowderfest/

We brought our pugs along ( bundled up for the cold), a bottle of water, and a couple cans of soda to cleanse the palate and quench our thirst!

This Chowder won "Best Dog Chowder" as judged by the Mayor's dog.
Dookie dares Walter (in the Skidmore sweater) to try the dog chowder
The line outside at one of the chowder stops!
I actually had two bowls of this chowder. It was one of the winners of the day!
Our ballot for Chowderfest 2008!

Skidmore musicians

Congratulations to Julia Nunes '11, the winner of the Bushman World Ukelele Video Contest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-lt3vVA-4I

Skidmore has an incredible music community; here are some other Skiddies I enjoy listening to.

Amy Regan
"So in Love" is my favorite!

Lisa Bastoni
Can be seen performing all over Boston.

Sinem Saniye

"Boom Sheke Nana" won the 2006 John Lennon Songwriting Contest

Lyle Divinsky
Also starred in Cabaret Troupe's production of "Fame" earlier this fall.

Nat Osborn
His group features a number of Skidmore classmates. "Yours alone" is awesome!

Dylan Connor
So versatile and talented.


Here is a brand new way to keep track of all your favorite Skidmore musicians:http://skidmore.magnify.net/

Super Tuesday

Yesterday was a super Tuesday in many respects. Skidmore has enough voter participation in order be its own polling district so Skidmore students vote right on campus!
Skidmore students also vote in local elections (but we'll save that for another post).




I was also able to join many of the international students at an informal gathering at Scribner House, the home of President Glotzbach and his wife Marie.