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Well, I just survived co-chairing the Teaching Academy Summer Institute<\/a> – 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.<\/p>\n I’m relieved, but as usual with this type of thing, a bit nostalgic. I’ll probably volunteer to be on the planning committee for next year.<\/p>\n I was supposed to walk with Ann first thing, but I got to her house and she couldn’t walk since she was about to leave for Cincinnati because her 97-year-old dad is failing.<\/p>\n I had a date to meet a friend for coffee at Memorial Union – that was a nice bit of catching up with someone who’s also a long time university employee, but, like me, feels kind of out of the mainstream.<\/p>\n Came home with the plan to quick<\/em> check email, and of course, seemed like stuff was blowing up on several fronts – student internships, conference programs, online course … so I did the best I could with it all, and then the plan was that Toni and I were going to Costco, primarily for fruit for Heike’s graduation party on Saturday. Fussing over the email meant that we didn’t leave until almost 4:30 instead of 3:30, but when we got out to Costco, there were still plenty of parking spots, so not so crowded after all, even on a Friday.<\/p>\n Came back from Costco, and had a quiet night at home – we ate the sliders<\/a> I’d frozen after Memorial day, and Unky Dave’s potato salad<\/a> (Mark being sure to get as few peas as possible in his portion, just like my Dad would’ve; I recall him asking David why anyone would put peas and carrots into potato salad anyways), and salad – and I made Smitten Kitchen’s rhubarb bars<\/a> – pretty good, but not my favorite rhubarb treatment. I think I like these bars<\/a> better.<\/p>\n Kinda wish I’d gone down to the Capitol to watch everyone<\/a> getting married<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here’s one of the couples – John was friends with Rose in high school. She’s the daughter of a guy who worked at Memorial Library for a long time, Suzy Grindrod’s bother, so Ed & Suzy’s niece – who I’ve known even longer. I still have a folder of photos of John & his friends from a weekend they spent at Rose’s cabin on the lake north of Milwaukee, the summer of 2005, right after they graduated.<\/p>\n