In pajamas making desserts until 11:00 – not so bad for good Friday/Passover/my one real day off of UW spring break! [answered one work email so far; see if I can keep it that way]. Both types of puddings say to top with pistachios – so I’ll have to chop some. We’ll see if I […]
I think my brother is right, winter break is boring. The problem I have is that I go from being ridiculously too busy with work, and cookie season, and general holiday preparing, then the holidays are over and I get some free time, and I don’t wanna do the stuff I should do. And this […]
Sunday was by no means sunny, but at least it wasn’t raining. Instead of breakfast out, we decided to just eat a little something at the cabin and try to catch the 10:00 ferry to Rock Island. We had two bananas that needed to be eaten, anyways. I had mine with peanut butter and Mark […]
Our first night we had sammiches for supper – bread and Nueske’s smoked turkey from the fancy grocery store in Fish Creek, tomatoes & cucumbers from my CSA box, brought from home – then we watched Gosford Park on VHS tape. Thursday morning we weren’t sure of the weather, so we went out seeking coffee […]
After a summer bookended by week long events that I was co-chairing (the teaching academy summer institute and the new distance students’ bootcamp), with 36 studnets in internships in between, I now am trying to get three online courses ready by next Tuesday, September 2. Which means that, since last Wednesday, the last time I […]
Well, I just survived co-chairing the Teaching Academy Summer Institute – TASI14. This was my 2nd year as co-chair which means I’m done – they have to find someone new to partner with Tom, who I worked with this year, for TASI15. I’m relieved, but as usual with this type of thing, a bit […]
I made 2 ducks that I got from Matt Smith, using this Gourmet recipe from 1943. I followed the recipe pretty exactly, except instead of celery in the bottom of the roasting pan, I used celeriac, and I didn’t add the orange zest to the sauce. Which was delicious even without it. Oh, yea, and […]
Mark’s birthday morning – we got up about 8:00 and rode the cabin bikes – way too big for both of us – over to the coffee place, Red Cup. Kinda assumed they’d have wifi, but no. So now we’re hanging out in front of the public library using theirs. I tried calling both kids […]
So far there’s no at&t cell service whatsoever on washington island – thank you AT&T – so we’re at a bar w/ free wifi & a giant black lab sticking his nose in our laps & old guys in the corner playing jazz. I’m still feeling not quite right – I can’t live like Mark […]