welcomed

I really feel totally welcomed by now ... and have started to move on to attending and speaking at other USC events without always being the New Girl.   They do, indeed, do a fabulous job of making one feel thoroughly at home here, so I can't let this particular gift go unrecorded.   Yes, it's some kind of plastic jar, rather like the ones used by Maxwell House Instant Coffee powder in the 1960s (we had a whole row of these, and then they became filled up with things like currants).   And what's inside it?   Yes, a whole lot of customized M and Ms, in cardinal and gold (personally, I think it's a bid too crimson for "cardinal," but that's the color the football commentators always call it), with USC Dornsife on them, in tiny, tiny lettering...