Today is over-the-hump day of my new distance graduate students’ orientation bootcamp. I’m soooo tired – although they’re all probably tireder than me. We put on an ice cream social for them – the University Housing catering service serving the University Creamery (Babcock Hall) ice cream. Other years I had catered it myself, biking to […]
Mark and his son and son’s girlfriend are off at Lollapalooza, leaving me and Rachael to have what Rach has started calling the “longest sleepover party of the summer”. I’m just trying to have some normal weekend fun before the new distance student’s bootcamp starts on Monday morning. We started with a pedi, after work […]
On Monday, our last day in Seattle, we went on the Tour de Jen – a bike ride past three of my sister-in-law’s outdoor artworks, an installation on the roof of a bus shelter, an installation by the side of a bike path, and the most recent mega-work, installed on a fence. Built from […]
We’re visiting in Seattle for a wedding. Last night we went to Safeco field to watch the Twinkies beat the Mariners, although they didn’t accomplish that until we were walking home. We left with the game tied 1-1, a mixed gaggle of ages & relationships; us, the to-be-married couple, and assorted brothers, sisters in law, […]
A few years ago, I discovered the pleasures of a salon leg wax. You go into a private room, and they spread nice-smelling warm wax on your legs, press on strips of cloth-like paper, and yank those off, along with your leg hairs. It’s kind of expensive, but my legs are not very hairy, so […]
July 22nd is my mother’s yahrzeit – this year it’s been 9 years. I lit a candle in the crystal candle holder my mom and I bought at the Art Fair on the Square because we thought it would look good for Opa’s yahrzeit candle (tho in this pic, I’m using one of Oma’s candle-go-round […]
And what did I make of it? Friday it was still ridiculously hot, and we went out to dinner, at Madison’s star chef gastropub, Graze – the place Tory Miller opened so he could serve burgers and pork buns and fried cheese curds – sometimes there’s even poutine on the menu. Yesterday, Saturday, was mostly […]
I lost my keys three times. The last time, I had to dump my green Timbuk2 bag completely out to find them. I guess that’s OK – the bag had gotten kind of junked up since ALA, so a thorough dump out was a good thing. Mark calls it my Hermione bag, but Hermione had […]
Somebody brought a half full case of peaches to work the other day – so I said I’d take enough home to make a pie, and bring it back. I was thinking hand pies, and ended up making nine mini galettes, because I thought they’d be easier to seal and less likely to pop open. […]