Monday, the eighth-to-the-last day of April, I seemed to be encountering the “everything’s an outrage” point of view a lot. It is common currently, in academe, and in librarianship, where I live as a professional. It makes me tired. I try to assume – as I told the two fellow UW academic staff, who appeared … [Read more…]
A pretty good summation of how one, or me anyways, doesn’t really feel that good about spring, when it first arrives, throwing off winter’s covers. Though we do get to celebrate spring holidays, like Passover & Easter, which I mostly do through food. In fact my understanding of the Passover sedar is that it actually … [Read more…]
So what the heck happened to the rest of last week, and weekend? (Zombie dragon) Because now it’s Tuesday already. Thursday afternoon I went to a retirement party for one of the technology guys at the main UW-Library. We were in library school at the same time, and he is a good bit younger than … [Read more…]
Man, this is a week, and it’s only Wednesday. Sunday we went to a memorial for the husband of Mark’s former boss, who died suddenly at the age of 45. He’d worked in a variety of positions around the University, related to evaluation primarily, and had just been made Assistant Dean for Academic Analysis, Planning, … [Read more…]
This week started with the election and is ending with the WI Film Fest. I took two days off to work at one, and volunteer at the other. Tuesday I worked the election and it wasn’t terribly busy – it was the election for mayor and school board so seemed like really only permanent residents … [Read more…]