TASI wordle
Well, I just survived co-chairing the Teaching Academy Summer Institute – TASI14. This was my 2nd year as co-chair which means I’m done – they have to find someone new to partner with Tom, who I worked with this year, for TASI15.
I’m relieved, but as usual with this type of thing, a bit nostalgic. I’ll probably volunteer to be on the planning committee for next year.
I was supposed to walk with Ann first thing, but I got to her house and she couldn’t walk since she was about to leave for Cincinnati because her 97-year-old dad is failing.
I had a date to meet a friend for coffee at Memorial Union – that was a nice bit of catching up with someone who’s also a long time university employee, but, like me, feels kind of out of the mainstream.
Came home with the plan to quick check email, and of course, seemed like stuff was blowing up on several fronts – student internships, conference programs, online course … so I did the best I could with it all, and then the plan was that Toni and I were going to Costco, primarily for fruit for Heike’s graduation party on Saturday. Fussing over the email meant that we didn’t leave until almost 4:30 instead of 3:30, but when we got out to Costco, there were still plenty of parking spots, so not so crowded after all, even on a Friday.
Came back from Costco, and had a quiet night at home – we ate the sliders I’d frozen after Memorial day, and Unky Dave’s potato salad (Mark being sure to get as few peas as possible in his portion, just like my Dad would’ve; I recall him asking David why anyone would put peas and carrots into potato salad anyways), and salad – and I made Smitten Kitchen’s rhubarb bars – pretty good, but not my favorite rhubarb treatment. I think I like these bars better.
Kinda wish I’d gone down to the Capitol to watch everyone getting married.
Here’s one of the couples – John was friends with Rose in high school. She’s the daughter of a guy who worked at Memorial Library for a long time, Suzy Grindrod’s bother, so Ed & Suzy’s niece – who I’ve known even longer. I still have a folder of photos of John & his friends from a weekend they spent at Rose’s cabin on the lake north of Milwaukee, the summer of 2005, right after they graduated.
Rose Grindrod, left, marries Meghan Hamilton, both of Madison, with their son, Harry Hamilton, 2, outside the City-County Building in Madison on Saturday. The couple has been together for eight years and deserves the same right to pursue happiness as others.
