It being Sunday, I walked to the co-op and bought a few things, then crossed the street to Westman’s Bagels, and took my spot in the long line that you have to wait in, even if you’re buying whole bagels to take home, and not a sandwich. The line looked pretty much like this when … [Read more…]
We did a Wednesday to Monday Door County vacation, me, Mark, and Anna, our AFS student who’s barely been here 10 days. Wednesday was a travel day and White Gull Fish boil for dinner. I had 32 5-page papers to read from my summer class and the cabin WiFi was a little iffy, so I … [Read more…]
Since 2010, I’ve been organizing an in-residence orientation, or Bootcamp, for our new incoming class of online graduate students. Bootcamp takes place during the last week of summer classes at UW-Madison, which always fall on the first full week of August. One of my colleagues has started saying, “Bootcamp ruins the summer” – and it’s … [Read more…]
So, just 2 weeks ago Saturday, the high was 54°, and one week ago it was blissful 72°. Today the high is predicted to be 89°, but I bet it goes higher than that, because yesterday it was 90°. Mark’s got the AC on upstairs and I don’t blame him. I don’t even get my … [Read more…]
We got all packed (stopping for selfies) and took out the trash, and returned the keys to the airbnb to their lockbox, and started our travel-home day with coffee at the Balzac’s at the (closed, because it was Monday) St. Lawrence Market. We drank our coffee and split a muffin at one of the outside … [Read more…]
On Sunday we were gone from the airbnb for over 12 hours – from 8:00 am to after 9:00 PM. It was like a very long work day, but at least included dinner. We got coffee at the closest Starbucks – not the fastest customer service but just down the stairs from the airbnb – … [Read more…]
Friday was another 3 movie day, two family dramas and one romantic comedy. We hung around at the airbnb and ate yogurts and banana and peanut butter toast for breakfast because The Wife, our first film, the first family drama, didn’t start until noon, plus we had dinner reservations between our 2nd & 3rd movies, … [Read more…]
On Wednesday, we started our day with bacon sandwiches at St Lawrence Market. That was a heap of bacon. After the bacon, we proceeded on to Darkest Hour, yet another cinematic depiction of WWII, before the US got involved, like Dunkirk, and yet another version of Winston Churchill. We last saw him played by John … [Read more…]
On our day 4, Monday, our first movie was Happy End directed by Michael Haneke, the Austrian director. It’s kind of a sequel to sequel to 2012’s Amour, that I think we tried to see at our very first TIFF. It was really well done but hard to feel sympathetic for all those rich people. … [Read more…]
Days 1, 2, & 3 for us anyways – the Festival really started Thursday, so our day 1 was actually day 2 officially. It didn’t start getting confusing until Monday, when all the introducers started saying, “welcome to day 5” when it was only day 4 for us. But that’s the next post. <grin> Day … [Read more…]