April really is the cruellest month this year. The rains came on election day, Tuesday. I watched it just sheeting down from the windows of the polling place. It changed to snow just as I was leaving. It was wet slushy stuff, and made it very hard to see when driving. And also hard to … [Read more…]
Man, this is a week, and it’s only Wednesday. Sunday we went to a memorial for the husband of Mark’s former boss, who died suddenly at the age of 45. He’d worked in a variety of positions around the University, related to evaluation primarily, and had just been made Assistant Dean for Academic Analysis, Planning, … [Read more…]
This week started with the election and is ending with the WI Film Fest. I took two days off to work at one, and volunteer at the other. Tuesday I worked the election and it wasn’t terribly busy – it was the election for mayor and school board so seemed like really only permanent residents … [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…]
Going to try to do the whole thing in one post, except for the Sunday of the Fest – that’s its own story. For me, the film fest started on Thursday, although I’d been to two volunteer trainings already. I worked at home, and took a break to go out to airport, and pick up … [Read more…]