On Friday I went and volunteered pouring beer at La Fête de Marquette, a free music festival that benefits the Wil-Mar Center. I worked the early shift, happy hour when everything’s half price, from 4:30-6:45 (tho happy hour ends at 6:00). I biked home as the sky was getting dark and there was a pretty … [Read more…]
… or week and almost a half, really. So not sure what’s going on with me. It’s been a 2-concert, holiday week, and lots of good things are arriving at the Farmers Market and in my CSA box, and I’ve been cooking them, but I haven’t written about any of it for the last 10 … [Read more…]
So, OK. On Monday, I got back from helping John sell the car and it started raining, so instead of biking I drove across town to the community center to see what I could make for the food pantry breakfast on Tuesday morning. Despite my hours of worry and dread, and the car smoking and … [Read more…]
I took the day off on Friday and we took the train to Chicago – driving to Harvard IL to get it. Don’t even get me started on how our evil governor deprived us of high speed rail, because it would have cost us Wisconsin taxpayers too much, and instead we paid for trains we … [Read more…]
Those annoying girls on the bus. They were all like, “My 21st birthday – I remember most of it.” “I would’ve been ok if I’d stopped. I had 3 shots of rum on the way and then a vodka cranberry when we got there, and it was a double. And then another.” There was also … [Read more…]
“Seeing, oh, January, oh” It’s official – I did a Sunday morning weigh-in today for the first time since before Christmas, and I didn’t gain any weight over the holidays. Although, in truth, I know I hit a cookie low at some point, actually probably multiple points. Because of the increased activity of staying up … [Read more…]
The first week was characterized by heat, tomatoes, and Rach was here. Wednesday was Rosh Hashanah and I made challah. I got my annual CSA 25-pound box of tomatoes, and made sauce and blanched and diced and froze a lot of them and also made four trays of oven dried tomatoes. Rach and I bought … [Read more…]
I haven’t written since we got back from D.C. two weeks ago. I could say it’s because I’ve been working on getting my fall semester online courses ready, and it’s so much the same, writing content and posting it online in a content management system, that I don’t have energy left for blogging. Maybe. I … [Read more…]
Last Thursday, the last day of the new online students’ on-campus orientation, I got a big, summer-y CSA box. That’s a few green beans, “silver” and green cucumbers, something like 2 1/3 pounds of tomatoes, bunches of basil and leaf lettuce, an onion two little melons, and 10 ears of corn. After I brought all … [Read more…]
Or, I don’t think I’m ever going to catch up. Mark’s brother and sister-in-law came to visit the weekend before last, and then by a fluke we also got Mark’s nephew, his wife, and their two kids who are 8 and 13, for an overnight. They were all on their way to the U.S. Open … [Read more…]