… but the nickname of our new Wii is “Cat Wii.”
Archive for July, 2009
I’m not sure what this says about us …
Posted in It's My Life, Wat Stom!, tagged Shopping, Wii on July 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
What I’ve Really Been Doing
Posted in It's My Life, tagged Battlestar, Birthdays, Grading, Teaching on July 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
So, what have I been doing instead of blogging about my vacation? Teaching, grading, fielding grade complaints (ah, administration), advising students who forgot to register last spring, hiding under my desk. Okay, maybe not that last item, but I’ve thought about it a time or two over the last week. I spent my Sunday curled [...]
Day 7: Buffalo and Badlands
Posted in Travel, tagged Badlands, Custer State Park, south dakota, Vacation, Wall Drug, Wind Cave on July 29, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Buffalo in Custer State Park, South Dakota
What’s the best thing about camping in a suburban KOA? It’s the $1 all-you-can-eat pancakes, of course! The Coach and I were getting pretty darned sick of granola bars by this point in our trip, so we decided to get up early enough to hit the chow line before [...]
The Coach
Posted in Wifely Wisdom, tagged Birthdays on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you see The Coach today … it’s his birthday.
Happy 4~th, my little old man.
Day 6: From Monuments to the Biscuit Bandit
Posted in Travel, tagged Crazy Horse, Custer State Park, Deer, Mount Rushmore, south dakota, Vacation on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Profile Shot of our First President, Mount Rushmore
I come from a traveling family. We went all sorts of places when I was a kid – from Plymouth Plantation in the Boston area to the monuments around Washington, D.C.; from Hemingway’s house at Key West to my cousin’s big skate meet in Dallas; from my grandmother’s [...]
Day 5: From the Geographic Center of the United States
Posted in The Foodie Files, Travel, tagged Black Hills, Presidents, Rachel Ray, south dakota, Stavkirke, Vacation on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At the Black Hills Mining Museum, Lead, SD
I find mining things interesting because my grandpa was an iron ore miner.
If you have spent as many hours cooped up in a convertible, speeding across the country to Montana, then you’ll understand why the fifth day of our trip was not super-exciting. We didn’t cross long distances, [...]
Day 4: Dealin’ with the Devil
Posted in Travel, tagged Devils Tower, Vacation, wyoming on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Circle of Sacred Smoke @ Devils Tower National Monument
It’s been one thing after another – poorly written papers, late papers, requests for incompletes, advising sessions with students who have grade point averages that don’t even register as whole numbers, hiring adjuncts, dealing with silly colleagues, thoughts of irritation, grief, and rage. I haven’t had [...]
A Note on Grading.
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged Grading on July 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
You know that a student is not going to get a good grade when you’ve written 29 comments on the first six pages of a 20 page assignment. That is all.
Intermission
Posted in It's My Life on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The tale of my vacation will resume tomorrow. Tonight? I am teaching my last grad class and I know I’ll be dog tired by the time I get home. My evening plans include: eating a late supper, courtesy of The Coach; watching Conan O’Brien; and going to bed with a good book. Maybe I’ll be tired enough to [...]
Day 3: Motorin’ thru Montana
Posted in Travel, tagged Battlefield, montana, Vacation on July 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Pony @ Little Bighorn Battlefield
We dipped our toe into the Great State of Montana today when we headed up to the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. Located on the Crow Reservation in southeastern Montana, the site was pretty small — and pretty crowded. We stopped at a gas station before we entered the park, looking [...]
