Mr. Drossel lives across the street from my parents. He’s about 6′7″, always wears a black stetson hat, black kid leather gloves and long black duster; and looks like a mix between Clint Eastwood, Slenderman, your favorite grandpa and a barn owl. He’s very soft-spoken and perhaps needlessly articulate, but in a very engaging way and I’ve never heard him raise his voice, ever.
He’s one of the best lawyers in the county and becuase I watched his dog/took care of his garden all the time when I was in middle/highschool and he was consulting for the FBI on something and was thus out of town all the time, he did all my family’s legal work (wills, architecture permits, that dust-up with the school, etc.) at a very steep discount.
His dog was a totally blind, fat little sausage of a Westie named Princess Anistasia. She has since Passed On, but Mr. Drossel is looking into adopting a new dog, and has apparently been considering a three-legged animal of indeterminate breed but it looks like a small incursion from the Dimension Of Hair.
This is Bean aka Beancat akaa Dutchess Beansworth and we rescued her when she was six weeks old. She loves car rides, making messes, and looking smug all the time. She is mi Mija and I would die for her
– on the first day of class he brought his favorite toy truck from when he was a child
– is from Argentina and has a cute accent and sometimes speaks in Spanish on accident
– teaches us Spanish phrases for fun
– very tall and awkward and has super curly hair that falls into his face constantly
– giggles at his own jokes
– on the second day of class he showed us pictures of his cat eating a salami
– the cat’s name is Pants
– i saw his teaching notes today and he doodles little flowers in the margins of his notebook
– Brought us a smiley face balloon to cheer us up when the weather was bad
– played with legos for half the class
– likes balloons a whole lot
It’s now the middle of summer. I do research in the physics department, my office is right across the hall from his. And so:
– He knows I’m into observational astronomy and despite him being a nuclear astrophysicist himself he will email me (and some of the other observationalists) interesting articles and videos about astronomy, usually and around 2am, the poor insomniac
– He became a dad yesterday! In his email he said “sorry, I won’t be in this week, I’ll be frantically googling how to take care of a newborn instead”
– his last name is Estrada and so I simply replied “congratulations on becoming an Estradad!!!” To which he replied “:D”
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