With apologies to Dave Edmunds. [and this was only started when it was almost Saturday night; finished on Sunday] I guess, since I haven’t written since Wednesday, and even then was writing about Sunday – we are due for a wrap-up. Wednesday was Mark’s birthday. We took him out for dinner at Pig in a […]
We got back from Canada on Monday night at about 7:30. It took me until 11:30 to get unpacked and get the furniture De-cat-haired and the countertops De-cat-footprinted. On Tuesday I had hella catch up day at work – the usual, cleaning up email, etc. but I had to get slides ready so I could […]
On Sunday morning, I got up and made cimmy buns, and then drove to Milwaukee to help John move to Chicago for grad school. After we got the truck unloaded, we went to Al & Emma’s – barely 2 blocks away – and got cleaned up and then had dinner – at 9:30 PM, at […]
So, now that the election’s over, it’s back to life as usual, right? It’s been a lost week for me, 26 student advising appointments at work, election day as a poll worker, and a cold … or maybe it’s strep. I do have a stuff to cook list again, not in my phone, but in […]
I got a really funny message from my BFF, Rach, on Tuesday evening about how oh, it’s a Tuesday that feels like a Monday, and even though we had a 3 (or 4, in her case) day weekend, it wasn’t long enough. Lots of cooking fun over the holiday weekend – Baked a peach raspberry […]
Leftover greens & mashed potatoes So, I was out on Monday for Al’s move job, then yesterday I had to leave early to chauffeur Mark to his colonoscopy (pretty awful, but so funny to see non-drinking Mark drunk on the anesthetic) – and I think I must be on something like 9,000 committees. So, work […]
The downside of being so over-busy is that when I have a short span of UN-busyness, I have this unfocused inability to do anything. Like today – I recorded a lecture, read the discussion boards in my class, graded two assignments, kind of caught up on email, answered numerous student questions, met with a student […]
Last Friday I made a luau themed dinner for a group of 22 who were having some kind of luau-tiki-mystery dinner. All I knew was that they needed three courses, and it should be tropically themed. I made shrimp salad in wonton cups for starters, grilled tequila marinated chicken breasts with grilled pineapple (Chicken not […]
We’ve always differentiated between being busy – which isn’t neccesarily bad – your days are full, you have lots to do, you’re not bored – and stupid busy – which IS bad. Too much to do, you forget stuff, you miss stuff, you get cranky. And stupid. I have been stupid busy for the last […]
Subtitle: “or, why I’ve had no time to write”. The good: the week-long orientation session for incoming distance students, beginning their degree in library & information studies. I was the chief organizer, but this event was pulled off with a cast of thousands, er, uh, dozens at least, including the 29 students themselves. This was […]