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…]
Or, between two breakfasts. Here’s the first one: On Tuesday morning I got up at Omigod (4:45am) and drove to the train with Mark. We were in Chicago at quarter to 9:00 and my flight wasn’t until 12:10, so I went looking for breakfast and ended up at Corner Bakery. After breakfast, I took the … [Read more…]
To wintry mix and a head cold, or well, it was a head cold on Wednesday when I started writing this, but now it’s Friday, and it’s in my chest. Wintry mix falling on HC White building courtyard from Debra Shapiro on Vimeo. Since I’m so belated in writing, here’re a few snapshots of the … [Read more…]
Just so you know – I have still been having a life, I just haven’t managed to write about it much, recently. I blame work – I was totally overloaded this fall semester, 3 classes instead of 2. I finished grading at 2:48 PM on Christmas eve. (Although I think I was grading on Christmas … [Read more…]
Friday afternoon I had just finished saving all three of the syllabi I have due on Monday, and was wondering if it was time to check with John & Megan if they were still coming to Madison this weekend as planned, when John called to say they were not coming – because they had gotten … [Read more…]
Lamers, yes, but we still managed to do some fun things, and I cooked a lot. We saw two movies, neither of which was overwhelmingly good, but still entertaining. [portfolio_slideshow pagerpos=disabled size=large] On Friday to start off the long weekend, we went to see Our Kind of Traitor and then came home and ate assorted … [Read more…]
We turned our Memorial Day weekend into a mini film fest, and saw three movies. Friday – The Lobster We really wanted to see this at TIFF, but it was one of the movies that only was shown twice, so too hard to get tickets. I liked it, but it was a real film fest … [Read more…]
It was raining this morning so I decided to work at home. As soon as I got out of bed – before 7:00, before feeding the cats – the meanderings started. I turned on my computer to send a message to work that I was working at home, and checked into my online course to … [Read more…]
I’m a little unhappy with my post about last weekend, our crazy Chicago to Madison to Chicago weekend for two graduations. I feel like I reported, but didn’t really express everything I was thinking and feeling. This is a tiny bit due to my desire to protect the names of the individuals involved, but primarily, … [Read more…]
Going to try to do the whole thing in one post, except for the Sunday of the Fest – that’s its own story. For me, the film fest started on Thursday, although I’d been to two volunteer trainings already. I worked at home, and took a break to go out to airport, and pick up … [Read more…]