Today I made the brunch that I probably would have made last Sunday for Mother’s Day, if I hadn’t been at the iSchool graduation instead. Asparagus tart – with ramps and a shallot that had been in the bottom of the veggie drawer for months, and a little bit of goat cheese. Rhubarb muffins. Bacon. … [Read more…]
Somehow I thought May would be less busy, since the UW semester ended May 3. I gave my students until May 10 to submit final projects, which means I just finished grading today (May 16). And the University must’ve tightened some regulation or something, because I (and lots of other faculty & instructors) got all … [Read more…]
Time for Wisconsin, and Illinois, fun. I collected my bag and drove home from the Milwaukee airport and was home by 2:00. Plenty of time for unpacking and a dinner of leftovers (Beef enchiladas, Metcalfe’s deli coleslaw, Zatarain’s Spanish rice mix with added chicken) followed by Game of Thrones, the Starbucks cup episode. I remain … [Read more…]
And remembering what I did in New York. I’m sitting at LaGuardia wondering why my flight hasn’t started boarding – but they’re only 5 minutes late so far. Ah – looks like passengers are disembarking thru our gate so that must be why. I kind of told you about Thursday. The best flight I could … [Read more…]
Here are the pics, more words soon. View from the cab window in Harlem, tulips on the UWS, blooming trees & flowers in Central Park, daguerretypes & guitars & the mando Peter Buck used for “Losing My Religion” at the Met, wandering the High Line, and the Vessel with John, New Museum, and Devan Shimoyama … [Read more…]
Trying hard to remember the last couple of week’s food. There was Passover, and then charoset muffins, which I enjoyed but neither Anna nor Mark would eat. Last Friday we had beef enchiladas for dinner. I made a big batch of enchilada sauce using strained veggie broth that had been the base of our matzoh … [Read more…]
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…]