Whatever that is – My brother’s writing about the string of snow days in Seattle that disrupted his schedule, and I’m in Madison still feeling conference-time-shifted. For me, rather than snow storms, I think it’s the perfect storm of a long weekend in Dallas, including one twilight zone day, (capped off by Mark’s bout with [...]
My winter break got cut short by my unhappy discovery that our syllabi for spring term classes are due Jan 10 – I was operating on the blissful assumption that I had till the 17th. So I’ve spent way too much of the weekend on the computer, trying to get the syllabi for my two [...]
A lot of people have been saying that 2011 was a sucky year. In the women’s bathroom at the co-op the other day, on the chalkboard provided for grafitti, it said, “good riddance to 2011″ but underneath someone else had written, “never wish for time to go away – it’s all you’ve got”, and below [...]
And speaking of how time flies …. Yesterday was the going-away party for one of my librarian friends. He’s moving back east – he’s also from Pittsburgh – to work at Longwood Gardens, a botanical park in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, built with DuPont money. I’m starting to worry that it’s the beginning of an exodus; [...]
