Got home from work pretty hungry and had what seemed like a perfectly reasonable snack – a toasted slice from the loaf of long rise white I made a few days ago, with a little blue cheese on one end and a little goat cheese on the other, with a few sun-dried tomatoes. I […]
Time is especially funny this time of year. Two weeks ago Christmas was barely over – and it was still 2012. Barely a month ago – Dec. 14 – it was the day before the cookie party, and my life was quite different. Rather than slaving over a hot computer, trying to compose meaningful exercises […]
Whatever that is – My brother’s writing about the string of snow days in Seattle that disrupted his schedule, and I’m in Madison still feeling conference-time-shifted. For me, rather than snow storms, I think it’s the perfect storm of a long weekend in Dallas, including one twilight zone day, (capped off by Mark’s bout with […]
My winter break got cut short by my unhappy discovery that our syllabi for spring term classes are due Jan 10 – I was operating on the blissful assumption that I had till the 17th. So I’ve spent way too much of the weekend on the computer, trying to get the syllabi for my two […]
A lot of people have been saying that 2011 was a sucky year. In the women’s bathroom at the co-op the other day, on the chalkboard provided for grafitti, it said, “good riddance to 2011” but underneath someone else had written, “never wish for time to go away – it’s all you’ve got”, and below […]
And speaking of how time flies …. Yesterday was the going-away party for one of my librarian friends. He’s moving back east – he’s also from Pittsburgh – to work at Longwood Gardens, a botanical park in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, built with DuPont money. I’m starting to worry that it’s the beginning of an exodus; […]