Today marked my first time back in Yale's dining halls this semester. It was a triumphant, emotional experience. I shared hugs with several of the workers in my residential college, and I wasn't the only one. And the food, despite Aramark's cut backs since they took over, is real, real good. Anyone who tells you otherwise doesn't know what they're talking about. I won't rant here about the settlement, since I already linked a (long) piece I wrote on it today. I'll just write here that a settlement which doubles pensions and protects job security (and, in one of many less-noted improvements, undoes Yale's silly and elitist policy of only granting tuition assistance for four-year universities) is a win for everybody here, a tremendous victory won by a tremendous movement despite tremendous opposition. And there's much, much more ahead.