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…]
We didn’t really go to Chicago to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. We had tickets for the opera Saturday – the Lyric doing La Traviata – and we were supposed to go to a Chicago Symphony chamber concert Sunday afternoon. And, I wanted to take John out for his birthday, coming up on Monday. The chamber … [Read more…]
Friday – International Women’s Day – we went to the Madison symphony. It was a night of three featured soloists – who all play in the band: the concertmaster, on violin; first clarinet; and the tuba player. I find it hard to call him “tubist” although that seems to be the correct term. I made … [Read more…]
As an art history major I was taught to consider the artwork separately from the artist. But it just seems like everyday now we’re finding out about the feet of clay of yet another one of our idols, especially in the realm of pop culture, and I see a lot of people wondering if they’re … [Read more…]
This morning when I woke up I felt like it should be Saturday already, instead of only Friday. Somehow it’s just been a long week. Maybe the cold, maybe just everything. I’ve had several conversations with friends where they’re feeling like it’s the end of days. People snowed in up north and a 100+ car … [Read more…]