Post-meeting catch-up...

10 March 2021: Had a long phone conversation with Tim this evening. It was lovely and fun and felt like the good (old) kind of normal. It's weird that we had to do it over the phone on the same day we had a department meeting, but that meeting was via Zoom and Tim was all the way in Rockville. In other words, no catching up or "meeting-post-mortem" in the hallway or one of our offices afterwards. As so many have pointed out, Zoom just doesn't replicate those spaces and opportunities for talks. And boy: the phone is just so much better, it seems to me, for one-on-one conversations.