Hmmm, having my website back has not magically given me more time to write for it. Last week was kind of a busy week. Not much cooking, too much eating, state library conference at the Kalahari Resort, featuring oblivious whiteness representations of Africa, in Wisconsin Dells, which itself is rife with oblivious whiteness representations of … [Read more…]
Do much of anything. I feel so behind on writing, it’s hard to get started back in. I’ll see if I can kind of pick up the highlights. Both my garage remodel and the new online student orientation started Monday. I’ve been trying to take a pic or two everyday – here’s what there is … [Read more…]
Since 2010, I’ve been the main organizer for an in-person orientation that the iSchool where I teach puts on for new graduate students beginning the online program. A few years ago, one of my colleagues who is retiring this summer, started to say that Bootcamp ruins the summer, and she’s right, and this year, the … [Read more…]
I seem to have devolved into a once a week blogger, so I guess I might as well report on my week. Backwards – weekend to weekend. We were going to go to Chicago this weekend but got scared off by the weather predictions of ice storm and crazy wind. It turned out to not … [Read more…]
I guess. Tuesday was the election and in some respects the good guys won. We got rid of our evil governor here in WI, but as my colleague Meredith said Wednesday, “he’s already sold the farm to Foxconn.” And the map of our state still looks alarmingly red. New York Times WI election results Of … [Read more…]
Gawd, I started this post a week ago … thinking I’d write about Fall food. It’s just the ever present dread, and the news is so awful – omigod Pittsburgh … and letter bombs … and executive orders to take away natural born citizenship. Not to mention iSchool and advising week, 35-30-minute appointments with students … [Read more…]
So, like I said, I organize an orientation for our new library science graduate students called Bootcamp, and that was last week. So, a busy week. On the Thursday, the last day of Bootcamp, but before I was able to leave, our new AFS student arrived, so I made Mark go and get her, at … [Read more…]
This week I made a mistake that I always advise my students not to make – I took on too much. After all that telling students not to do it, I’m not at all sure why I thought I could do it – fit in two volunteer gigs around everything else: two shifts at the … [Read more…]
Those annoying girls on the bus. They were all like, “My 21st birthday – I remember most of it.” “I would’ve been ok if I’d stopped. I had 3 shots of rum on the way and then a vodka cranberry when we got there, and it was a double. And then another.” There was also … [Read more…]
I haven’t written since we got back from D.C. two weeks ago. I could say it’s because I’ve been working on getting my fall semester online courses ready, and it’s so much the same, writing content and posting it online in a content management system, that I don’t have energy left for blogging. Maybe. I … [Read more…]