So the Willy Street Fair was partially rained out and definitely the reduced edition. Like only one stage instead of three and no parade. So I didn’t see nearly the number of people I was wishing for. After I asked Mark for us not to leave for our Yorkshire Dales walking trip until after the … [Read more…]
Seems like every morning this week I woke up at 4:30 and couldn’t go back to sleep. So, I’ve definitely been a bit draggy. I guess it’s because of the time change, fall back – but I like that Sunday with an extra hour (that was just last week) so much that I’m not too … [Read more…]
Part of being this age is being unable to escape this song for this birthday. I just scrolled through the comments on the YouTube and some of them are pretty good, especially the guy who said he never thought he’d get to 64, which seemed impossibly old back in 1967 when Sargeant Pepper’s came out … [Read more…]
I’ve been trying to write something since last weekend, or I guess that’s actually weekend before last since I started writing this Tuesday, and now it’s Wednesday, Thursday and I’m falling further behind all the time. Let’s see if I can at least remember the food. This is going to be a looong post, Blogger … [Read more…]
This week I made a mistake that I always advise my students not to make – I took on too much. After all that telling students not to do it, I’m not at all sure why I thought I could do it – fit in two volunteer gigs around everything else: two shifts at the … [Read more…]
Or malaise. Or something. It was lightly snowing while I walked downtown Tuesday, to catch the bus to Chicago to see Mozart. Like I said in my last post, it’s last time of the year when everyone starts trying to feel good because it’s spring, but I’m not ready, and also have this guilty feeling … [Read more…]
I think it’s a natural thing that as you age, you start feeling like you’re no longer “at the pulse of it all” like Arthur Kane, as Robyn Hitchcock sings in N.Y. Doll. This weekend, somehow, I felt worse than that – like I’m becoming invisible. Probably much of my malaise is related to the … [Read more…]
For most of last week, I had this vaguely embarrassed, staggering around incompetently feeling. I think it was in part because I was still getting over writing my annual report, reading my bad evals from last year. And I think teaching face to face makes me have that flop-sweat feeling more than teaching online, because … [Read more…]