The Lowlight of My Weekend

 
Robert Hass
Robert Hass

I had lunch over the weekend with Robert Hass — Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, UC Berkeley professor and former Poet Laureate of the United States. When I say I had lunch with him, I mean he was one of five people seated at our table.

I asked to take a photo with him, which he graciously consented to. I don’t have any photos of myself with Pulitzer Prize winners and still don’t because the photo didn’t come out at all. I completely botched it somehow.

So that was probably the lowlight of my weekend, except for Cal getting blown out by Washington on the gridiron 31-7, while four Husky fans sat directly behind us screaming the whole game.

Football at Cal unfortunately is like academics at Washington: not terribly distinguished.

  1 comment for “The Lowlight of My Weekend

  1. MS
    MS
    1 Nov 2014 at 9:42 pm

    I beg to differ. #14 in the world is nothing to sneeze at…and they excel in athletics, so bam.

    https://www.facebook.com/UofWA/photos/a.127854376273.108497.8829726273/10152476314261274/?type=1&relevant_count=1

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