… but I forgot. It’s been that kind of a week, meetings, like the one on Thursday talking about are we going to Fall conferences or what; getting our AFS student registered for school and starting running; grad student problem emails; updating syllabi … wondering what the hell is going on, both weather-wise, and pandemic-related. … [Read more…]
Mostly trying to catch up with friends, give cookies away, and eat and drink a little too much, in a typical holiday fashion. Saturday my Dad would’ve been 99 years old if he was still here having birthdays – he stopped in 1998 at 77 (though the metadata in this Pitt Archives photo is incorrect; … [Read more…]
26 December is the British holiday Boxing Day, which is kind of the leftovers holiday – wealthy families would give the servants the day off to go home and see their families, and give them Christmas boxes, with bonuses and leftover food to take with. There’s also the Boxing Day sandwich, turkey and stuffing and … [Read more…]
So ever since the garage job started the first week of August the overhanging question was would it be done in time for us to move all the stuff from the Chicago apartment into it at the end of October. And no, unfortunately, I did not meet my goal of taking daily progress pics, sorry … [Read more…]
After the cold wet spring (and late cold winter) we had some just beautiful weather for awhile there, I guess it was back in June, dry and cool, into the 50s at night so nice for sleeping, and not too humid. But I had to turn on the AC last week – Tuesday I slept … [Read more…]
I’m wearing wool socks on June 16th, 2019. It’s 58°. This is complemented by the memory of equally not-right, too-hot days, like 70s in November, biking to work and not even needing to wear gloves. Here’s what the weekend cooking looked like: The quiche was pretty standard; my usual pie crust recipe, with half the … [Read 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…]
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…]
I seem to have devolved into a once a week blogger, so I guess I might as well report on my week. Backwards – weekend to weekend. We were going to go to Chicago this weekend but got scared off by the weather predictions of ice storm and crazy wind. It turned out to not … [Read more…]
The Madison Schools have had six snow (or extreme cold weather) closure days this winter. Unheard of. That’s like 3 years worth of snow days – they only build about 1 or 2 extra days into the calendar each year for weather closures. Our global-climate-change winter has been crazy disruptive this year. And February’s not … [Read more…]