No, not Led Zeppelin, me and you, dear blog readers, all 2 or 3 of you (I know my brother reads me off & on, same as I read him, and at least one old friend does, and when I link a post on facebook, I think a few more people look and even share, … [Read more…]
On Thursday I got my CSA box and it was loaded with cucumbers, 4 big ones. That night we had sandwiches. I’d made some malted wheat bread, and there was still some sourdough. We had the first really good tomato from Black Earth Valley; they went to the Westside Saturday market July 9, and so … [Read more…]
I feel like I’m forgetting everything I ever knew, and especially how to do all the things I’m supposed to be good at. Getting old and irrelevant, not keeping up. Maybe I’m living in that Billy Collins poem. I know one of the ways I’m feeling not like myself is how little documentation of cooking … [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…]
It’s the first day of classes at University of Wisconsin today, and I’m sitting at the kitchen counter still in pajamas, doing a little work email, drinking coffee, and listening to public radio which is full of stories about campus response to Covid, including liability waivers and a few words from a student at UW-Eau … [Read more…]
Gentle reader, please know, I finished grading on Sunday at about 6:30. Now it’s Wednesday at about 9:00, and I’m just getting finished with this post … Back then, I said, “Yay! Now only two syllabi and two online classes to get written and up and running, in two weeks. Can I put my pajamas … [Read more…]
Part of being this age is being unable to escape this song for this birthday. I just scrolled through the comments on the YouTube and some of them are pretty good, especially the guy who said he never thought he’d get to 64, which seemed impossibly old back in 1967 when Sargeant Pepper’s came out … [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…]