May Day is different things to different people, right? I wanted a wobbley cat – but most of them say general strike instead of May Day. Here in Madison and around the country it was Day Without Latinx and Immigrants’ – thousands of people marching to the Capitol. At least it’s not April any more!
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…]
Starting my Saturday with a little freezing. The election is Tuesday and I attended the Saturday morning training where we pick up our giant totes of all the stuff we need, and I drove because the Chief Inspector, and my neighbor, that I work with, didn’t have a car that day. She wanted to park … [Read more…]
Sometimes I’ve said that the only good thing that ever happened to me in March is my older son John’s birth. Mark used to say that I get weird around John’s birthday, but I think I just get weird in March. It’s spring, but it’s dirty crusty old snow spring. And sunny but a … [Read more…]
Sorry, I kind of left you hanging about the lump I found on my shoulder, last Saturday. I went to the doctor, and the verdict is it’s arthritis. I guess it’s sort of like the bunion I got scraped off from my left big toe, back in the early aughts, 2003 or so, a lump … [Read more…]
We are having a typical Madison, Wisconsin problem – two nice liberals running against each other for mayor, and it’s hard to follow one of the rules for radicals, “Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.” Sam Brown, The Washington Post (26 January 1977), because the differences between the candidates … [Read more…]