Monday morning in Chicago, Mark & I got up and headed to a nearby Starbucks to give our girl the first crack at the bathroom – her toilette is much more complex than Mark’s or mine. We got packed and checked all the bags at the hotel, then headed to Art Institute to work up [...]
Everybody’s doing their annual April Fool jokes, but we are in Chicago enjoying ourselves, no foolin’, and my over-earnest style doesn’t really lend itself too handily to April Fool pranks. Google’s got Nascar, the first time I went there this a.m. it even said “I’m steering Lucky“; I expect TidBits will do something tomorrow when [...]
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 [...]
Mark seems to have gotten a case of food poisoning. We went to a place called Villa-O, kind of organic Italian. It was a little noisy, but we liked it. We ate different entrees – I had scallops with a fennel crust served on top of basil vinaigrette with arugula & tomatoes & a few [...]
So far, this is the conference day when nothing’s turned out as expected. First, the meeting in a private suite in my hotel with recruiters from a big library consortium, to talk about placing library school students from my school in fellowships & internships, turned out to be from 9:00 – 11:00 instead of 10:00 [...]
I’m in Dallas for the librarians’ conference. On the way, I was stuck in the Denver airport for about an extra hour – Frontier airlines seemed to have lost our pilot, so my plane that was to have taken off at 1:05 didn’t leave until more like 2:30. And why I had to go from [...]
Mark’s dad died last Friday, and we got back from the funeral in North Carolina at about 10:00 p.m. last night. That’s why I was writing and obliterating my leek tart post in the Orlando airport on Sunday – we were on our way to NC. Had to get up at 3:45 a.m. on Sunday [...]
On my last morning in New Orleans, I went to one meeting and then got coffee & beignets. Then we went and bought rugs, from a place that custom weaves rag rugs, in the Quarter, Lousiana Loomworks, where we’d gotten stuff before. Mark’s got a kitchen rug from them, and I have two, although they’re [...]
For our big dinner out in New Orleans, we went to Luke, one of Chef John Besh’s places. Luke is Besh’s more casual place, in comparison to Restaurant August. It’s kind of German/French/New Orleans and heavy on the pig – in a good way. I had shrimp & grits, the shrimp and buttery grits were [...]
So I’m in New Orleans for the librarians’ conference. We were last here in 2006 – the first big conference to come in after Katrina. The opening general session started with inspirational videos, like a high school age girl singing “I need my library”. I suppose I should’ve been more inspired, but it’s hard not [...]
