{"id":3545,"date":"2018-08-05T22:48:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T03:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=3545"},"modified":"2018-08-12T12:35:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T17:35:44","slug":"weekend-before-bootcamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/05\/weekend-before-bootcamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend before Bootcamp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since 2010, I’ve been organizing an in-residence orientation, or Bootcamp<\/a>, 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 really true.<\/p>\n

I looked back on my blog a bit to see what I’d posted either about Bootcamp, or around the time of Bootcamp, in years past – here’s 2017<\/a>, 2016<\/a>, 2015<\/a>, 2014<\/a>, and 2013<\/a>. And I think that’s enough.<\/p>\n

This year for pre-Bootcamp weekend, I made a couple of things with berries: a slab pie and some muffins. The pie was to take over to our neighbors coming back home party. It was good, just a little too thin. Since January, the neighbors have been on sabbatical with their three small children, and they had a major house re-do while they were gone. We got the guided tour and I felt very house-inferior, especially in the clean, supposedly water-tight basement, with full bathroom. I liked the muffins – they’re not my usual recipe but they’re somehow summery & blueberry-y – blueberry forward I guess we’d say now. The recipe is from Jordan Marsh, a now closed department store in Boston. I guess pretty soon no one will have memories of lunching with their mother in the tea room at the department store. I remember chicken \u00e0 la king at Kaufman’s.<\/p>\n\n\t\t