This is my official extending the birthday, post-grading, weekend (I finished on Friday, yay!), so I am aiming to do even less work than last weekend. So far, so good. Saturday we biked to the Farmers’ Market, leisurely, since I planned to skip yoga. We bought A LOT. Cilantro. Sungold tomatoes. A basket of Marzano … [Read more…]
Thursday was the last day of the online students orientation, now an online event, and grades aren’t due until the 16th, so even though I have a ton of grading to do for my internship class (37 students) I decided that I deserve a real weekend. I mean, I have a whole other weekend to … [Read more…]
And that was all the way last weekend already. We took the train. We dropped our bags at the hotel, met John & Megan at Dollop for coffee, and proceeded on to the Art Institute. I wanted to see Bisa Butler, John wanted to see Richard Hunt, and we all wanted to see the Obama … [Read more…]
I’ve even been eating breakfast at my computer, which I had pretty much stopped doing during this long work from home period. I stand at my computer so eating there seems pretty uncivilized. In the office, I would do it sometimes, and way back at the beginning of pandemic, I mirrored that behavior (pic below … [Read more…]
And ending it late, I guess – I started writing this post on Thursday and am only finishing now on Tuesday back-to-work day. — The other day in an email my brother said I work too hard. So today (Thursday) I decided to start the July 4 weekend early. I am taking Friday off, and … [Read more…]
On Thursday, I had my last meeting ever of an executive committee that I’ve been on for almost 7 years, shared governance at the University. I’ve hit term limits, so couldn’t stand for re-election in the spring. Since it was my last meeting, at the end we went around the zoom and everyone said something … [Read more…]
This week things started getting busier again, with in-person stuff I had to do, on top of online meetings. I went to Memorial Library twice for Friends of the Libraries book donations, and on Friday I went over to Goodman and volunteered at the food pantry. I took hardly any pictures of food or flowers … [Read more…]
One of the books I’m reading for the Wisconsin Library Association awards is Tomboyland, by Melissa Faliveno. I read the first essay, The Finger of God, that’s partially about the tornado that clobbered Barneveld in 1984. The sirens didn’t go off, and the tornado killed 9 people and destroyed 90% of the structures in the … [Read more…]
I, like everyone else, am feeling uncertain about how to emerge from isolation and rejoin un-masked society, as the pandemic seems to be ending. The last couple weeks I’ve been feeling really awkward – like heading out for a walk in the morning thinking, “is it OK I’m doing this? I must look weird … … [Read more…]
I made two Gabrielle Hamilton recipes today, and defrosted my upright deep freezer. Usually I do that Memorial Day weekend, but this year it was too cold, so I waited until this weekend, when it’s actually a little too hot. About 90° out there now. One of the Gabrielle Hamilton recipes was Hamilton via Smitten … [Read more…]