My brother wrote a post of the same title a few days ago, listing his accomplishments, or at least what he did, for this summer, so I thought I would follow suit.
- I taught an online class on web design for 24 library masters’ degree students. I felt that it was one of my most successful online courses – the students did well on the assignments – they got it – the medium seemed to suit the message. It’s because when one wants to learn web design, there’s a ton of good infor out there on the web, so it worked nicely.
- I went to Washington D.C. for the big librarian’s conference. No big deals, a few nice meals, especially Jaleo.
- I got to go to Chicago TWICE – once for a software user group, and once for Lollapalooza.
- I coped with the bad-match foster kid, mostly by sending her to stuff – while we were at ALA, she went to Phantom Lake, which she liked. It’s the sleep-away camp where my younger son Al is a councilor. I also was kind of the home away from home for some of Al’s camp kid buddies – they passed through a few times for showers and sometimes we fed them, like Memorial Day and a few weekends ago.
- In July foster daughter went to MadCap, a theater daycamp that she had wanted to do, but then did not like – which made things even more unpleasant at home. The play she was in, Middle School Madness, was quite good.
- I organized a week-long on-campus orientation for 30 new distance library masters students. Despite being the highly experimental first one, and construction, and the angry teenage girl living with me, it went well.
- I went to Minneapolis and helped Al move, and then came back and moved the foster kid OUT. Today I took the last of her stuff to the group home. Whew.
- I biked a lot – I think I only got my CSA box by car twice – except now that it’s fall, the heavier stuff will be coming in. I carried a lot of groceries with my two panniers – the old black one, and the new Timbuk 2 one.
- I served a series of brunches and dinners.
- I redesigned the School Woods website.
- Now I’m gonna go make chicken poblano corn burritos – if they’re good, stay tuned for the recipe. (they were good; Mark loved them – here’s the recipe – or just go to the recipe page)
