My friend Anna had a significant birthday back in July. I sent her a card saying I’d bake her the birthday treat of her choice and she chose banana cream pie. Delivery worked out to be the Friday of Labor Day weekend, and the day after the new student orientation for the on-campus students at … [Read more…]
So on my side of town, we got the most rain on Monday. About three inches here, that all came down between 4:00 and 5:30, and then again between 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. Resulting in about 30 gallons of water in my basement that I sucked up with the shop vac, and sopped up with … [Read more…]
We did a Wednesday to Monday Door County vacation, me, Mark, and Anna, our AFS student who’s barely been here 10 days. Wednesday was a travel day and White Gull Fish boil for dinner. I had 32 5-page papers to read from my summer class and the cabin WiFi was a little iffy, so I … [Read more…]
So, like I said, I organize an orientation for our new library science graduate students called Bootcamp, and that was last week. So, a busy week. On the Thursday, the last day of Bootcamp, but before I was able to leave, our new AFS student arrived, so I made Mark go and get her, at … [Read more…]
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…]