Chicago
What day is it again?
So let’s see – we got back from Seattle last Tuesday, and Belana and I took a cab home, dropped our bags, and went to see Infinity Baby at the film fest. The first third was pretty funny, then it got a little too weird. We ate peanut butter sandwiches during the movie that we … [Read more…]
Cooking and not cooking
It seems a little weird to say I didn’t cook much this week when on Monday I prepped breakfast for 40 at the food pantry at the community center, and then went back to serve it on Tuesday morning. There were breakfast burritos and blueberry muffins. I made 40 burritos and 42 muffins and they … [Read more…]
The week that wasn’t
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…]
Here we are in Chicago
We (me and our AFS student) came down last night to see Robyn Hitchcock at City Winery. Kind of a fun place – definitely it’s set up to keep the customers well-fed and wined. It’s shared tables of 6 – 8, full dinner before the show, and they’ll keep bringing you drinks and snacks throughout. … [Read more…]
Just a bundle of nerves
Today when I was driving from Madison to the Harvard train, I felt all jumpy and didn’t trust any of the other drivers. I kept thinking someone would just pull over and cut me off – what’s to stop them? I was starting to feel better after a truck signaled to change lanes, and it … [Read more…]
First cold of the season
On Saturday morning, after Steve’s party, I woke up with a sore throat. Felt kind of flu-ish on Sunday and Monday, and wah lah by Wednesday evening, it had turned into a full blown gluggy runny nose sneezey head cold. But at least felt less like having the flu. I’ve been trying to get excited … [Read more…]
In Orlando…
…with the librarians, and in Chicago, too, to have dinner with John & Megan and catch my flight to Florida. Tuesday was a long day – at 7:30 AM I was on my way to the community center to serve waffles for the food pantry breakfast. At 7:30 PM I was in Chicago at Orchestra … [Read more…]
Oh for Pete’s sake …
… is kind of my new phrase, when stuff goes awry, when I’ve had just about enough, with apologies to all the Pete’s I know, although I think at least one of them would like being the epigram of gone awry. As in, “Oh for Pete’s sake”, I have been trying to write this thing … [Read more…]
John & Megan’s graduation weekend
[supsystic-slider id=10 ] So, my almost daughter in law, Megan, John’s girlfriend, has been living with me for the last two years, while she did her undergrad degree at UW-Madison, and John was in graduate school, getting an MFA in photography at Columbia College in Chicago. They both graduated the same weekend. UW-Madison and Columbia … [Read more…]