{"id":1685,"date":"2010-09-04T17:11:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T22:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2010-09-05T13:29:24","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T18:29:24","slug":"summers-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/summers-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer&#8217;s End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My brother wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/327words.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/summers-end.html\">post of the same title  a few days ago<\/a>, listing his accomplishments, or at least what he did, for this summer, so I thought I would follow suit.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I taught an online class on web design for 24 library masters&#8217; degree students. I felt that it was one of my most successful online courses &#8211; the students did well on the assignments &#8211; they got it &#8211; the medium seemed to suit the message. It&#8217;s because when one wants to learn web design, there&#8217;s a ton of good infor out there on the web, so it worked nicely.<\/li>\n<li>I went to Washington D.C. for the <a href=\"http:\/\/ala.org\/ala\/conferencesevents\/past\/index.cfm\">big librarian&#8217;s conference<\/a>. No big deals, a few nice meals, especially <a href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/2010\/06\/27\/conference-food-3\/\">Jaleo<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I got to go to Chicago TWICE &#8211; once for a <a href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/2010\/07\/13\/chicago-trip-for-fusion\/\">software user group<\/a>, and once for <a href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/tag\/lollapalooza\/\">Lollapalooza<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I coped with the bad-match foster kid, mostly by sending her to stuff &#8211; while we were at ALA, she went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phantomlakeymca.com\/\">Phantom Lake<\/a>, which she liked. It&#8217;s the sleep-away camp where my <a href=\"http:\/\/johnlusisphoto.tumblr.com\/post\/894171998\/brother\">younger son Al<\/a> is a councilor. I also was kind of the home away from home for some of Al&#8217;s camp kid buddies &#8211; they passed through a few times for showers and sometimes we fed them, like <a href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/2010\/05\/31\/memorial-day-weekend\/\">Memorial Day<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/2010\/08\/22\/its-been-real\/#1\">few weekends ago<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In July foster daughter went to MadCap, a theater daycamp that she had wanted to do, but then did not like &#8211; which made things even more unpleasant at home. The play she was in, <a href=\"http:\/\/madcap.shutterfly.com\/pictures\/687\"><em>Middle School Madness<\/em><\/a>, was quite good.<\/li>\n<li>I organized a <a href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/2010\/08\/07\/the-good-the-bad-the-ugly\/\">week-long on-campus orientation<\/a> 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.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>I biked a lot &#8211; I think I only got my CSA box by car twice &#8211; except now that it&#8217;s fall,\u00a0 the heavier stuff will be coming in. I carried a lot of groceries with my two panniers &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Z24uOlpbKq0\/SmDis7H4JII\/AAAAAAAAFPY\/6aafk9__4PE\/s320\/fennelbike2.jpg\">the old black one<\/a>, and the new <a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Z24uOlpbKq0\/SzlMuBaUj0I\/AAAAAAAAF4c\/9eK_y85ipUE\/s320\/pannier.jpg\">Timbuk 2 one<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I served a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/brunch2010.html\">brunches<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/summersupper10.html\">dinners<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I redesigned the <a href=\"http:\/\/schoolwoods.com\/\">School Woods website<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Now I&#8217;m gonna go make chicken poblano corn burritos &#8211; if they&#8217;re good, stay tuned for the recipe. (they were good; Mark loved them &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/recipes\/chicken-poblano-burritos\/\">here&#8217;s the recipe<\/a> &#8211; or just go to <a href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/recipes\/\">the recipe page<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217; degree students. 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