It’s been kind of a long strange week. With alternate schedules. Monday I had to be at the library by 8:00 to help unload a 200+ box book donation. I kind of frittered around getting out of the house trying to decide if I should walk or bike and what to wear and ran out … [Read more…]
So I kinda let last weekend and week get away from me – actually all of February so far, since my last post it was still January. And it was freezing cold & snowy then, as opposed to the sunny & 42° it is now. Or, well, one of the weather apps says 43 and … [Read more…]
Oh, hey, hi – remember me? I’ve been not doing a lot of stuff recently … not taking pictures of cookies, not writing blog posts, not keeping track of what I’m eating and how much I’m exercising in my diet & exercise app. Some days I walk 5 miles, some days none. I have been … [Read more…]
So, the last week and a half or so, I’ve been acquiring things. Maybe it’s the change in the seasons (it’s finally cooled off, although it still seems a little warm for October), maybe it’s coming out of pandemic, but I’ve been buying stuff, some for me, some for the house. Maybe it’s because I … [Read more…]
What a f**king day…. Fridays are supposed to be relaxing but this one just was not. Since 2010 I’ve been in charge of a multi-day orientation for students in the iSchool’s (formerly School of Library & Information Studies) online masters degree. We make them come to campus and meet in person, before starting their online … [Read more…]
Here in Madison, on Tuesday evening about dinner time, a Black man went into a Capitol Square restaurant with a bullhorn and a baseball bat, saying basically, “I’m here to F**k you up”, and when he got arrested, other protesters got violent and eventually pulled down the Forward statue, and Hans Christian Heg, who was … [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…]
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…]
Monday I worked at the Douglass-Truth Library, and then walked to Capitol Hill, intending to go to the big QFC on Broadway and buy some food, get some cash, and also charge my orca card. I came to the Whole Foods first, though, and shopped there which turned out to be a bit of a … [Read more…]
I guess. Tuesday was the election and in some respects the good guys won. We got rid of our evil governor here in WI, but as my colleague Meredith said Wednesday, “he’s already sold the farm to Foxconn.” And the map of our state still looks alarmingly red. New York Times WI election results Of … [Read more…]