Since 2010, I’ve been organizing an in-residence orientation, or Bootcamp, for our new incoming class of online graduate students. Bootcamp takes place during the last week of summer classes at UW-Madison, which always fall on the first full week of August. One of my colleagues has started saying, “Bootcamp ruins the summer” – and it’s … [Read more…]
I was lucky enough to see the band the Baseball Project last night – at an outdoor show at Madison’s Central Park (renamed this summer to McPike Park, in honor of Mr. McPike, former principal of East High School, known for being tough but fair). The Baseball Project’s songs are about baseball like the very … [Read more…]
I was signed up to do the AIDS ride Sunday – so I tried to take it kind of easy the rest of the weekend. Friday I worked until 4:30, on a Friday, in the summer, which Rach and I agreed is like staying until 5:30, or maybe even 6:00 on a normal work day. … [Read more…]
I didn’t light any candles, as I have done in the past. I did make sure to eat broccoli and crackers and strong cheese, and drink white wine. When my brother and I exchanged emails about what we each were eating for Oma’s yahrzeit he said, “rye bread and Riesling” and I said, “aged Gouda … [Read more…]
And other UN-photographed food. I wanted to make this Dorie Greenspan cake that got printed in the NYT mag while Rach was here, because it has no dairy, and you can put berries in it, and I had a lot of blueberries. It’s Roman ring cake, a ciambella. It turned out pretty much as Dorie … [Read more…]
On Friday I went and volunteered pouring beer at La Fête de Marquette, a free music festival that benefits the Wil-Mar Center. I worked the early shift, happy hour when everything’s half price, from 4:30-6:45 (tho happy hour ends at 6:00). I biked home as the sky was getting dark and there was a pretty … [Read more…]
… or week and almost a half, really. So not sure what’s going on with me. It’s been a 2-concert, holiday week, and lots of good things are arriving at the Farmers Market and in my CSA box, and I’ve been cooking them, but I haven’t written about any of it for the last 10 … [Read more…]
I got a CSA box on Thursday that included: a quart of really ripe strawberries a giant Napa cabbage – almost 3 pounds Zucchini and summer squash, almost 4 pounds Broccoli, 2 medium stalks One green bell and one green frying pepper One kohlrabi a bunch of scallions, two healthy stalks of curly basil 5 … [Read more…]
So, OK. On Monday, I got back from helping John sell the car and it started raining, so instead of biking I drove across town to the community center to see what I could make for the food pantry breakfast on Tuesday morning. Despite my hours of worry and dread, and the car smoking and … [Read more…]
I’ve been going around in a black cloud for most of this week, worrying about money, primarily. And I know, I know, these are all problems of privilege – I am fortunate to have all this stuff to worry about. I remember being at the courthouse for something related to my second foster kid, with … [Read more…]