I paid to get better wifi on our Southwest flight to Las Vegas for the librarian’s conference – but it’s not that much better. Takes a long time to access pages, and doing things like spell check on my comments on student work in the dropbox in the UW’s Learn@UW courseware can be really painful. […]
I guess this has just been a crazy week. We had tornadoes and straight line winds on Monday night, power outages on campus with no email or online courseware or main wisc.edu website, even, on Wednesday, and even though we seemed to survive the storm OK here, on Friday morning after a night of what […]
I’ve been wanting to make ramen salad – it seems like an early summer dish. I’ve been tinkering with the recipe – in 2006, I thought you needed to put in the seasoning packs, and use lots of sugar. More recently, I have switched to the Mollie Katzen point of view – when cooking with […]
The slow process of bringing stuff back here from School Woods.
Which I’m writing about on Tuesday, for Pete’s sake – Saturday we went to the farmers market for Cows on the Concourse. Petted cows, watched grilled cheese mass production, bought the first sugarsnap peas of the season. And a bunch of flowers. And two bunches of asparagus to make into shaved asparagus pizza for Heike’s […]
Well, I just survived co-chairing the Teaching Academy Summer Institute – TASI14. This was my 2nd year as co-chair which means I’m done – they have to find someone new to partner with Tom, who I worked with this year, for TASI15. I’m relieved, but as usual with this type of thing, a bit […]