Mark’s in Chicago so this is one of my single girl nights. I had a big salad for dinner and ate while I watched the Wire – that is, I re-watched selections of the season four finale. The selections where I fell asleep last night. I roasted vegetables for the crazy roasted vegetable sauce. I […]
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, […]
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 […]
I was kind of a couch potato, again – but maybe a little more productive than Monday – baked the rye bread for the soup dinner Thursday. Which served nicely as my excuse for hanging on the couch, waiting for it to rise, and then bake. I realized in the morning that there was a […]
One deserves such things, right? I worked until 5:30, then took the bus instead of walking. I didn’t do a yoga DVD. I made myself a nice little dinner – the last of the mushroom soup from last week (tho I only ate a few spoons, seemed to have lost its appeal – the mushroom […]