Fencepost @ The Hermitage
November 2009
A few weekends ago, when The Coach’s football season came to a crashing halt thanks to a nine-point loss in the first round of the state playoffs, we knew it was time to get the heck out of Sorta’ Cosmopolitan. With the exception of my up and back trip to a [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Road Trippin’ to Nashville
Posted in It's My Life, Travel, tagged Nashville, Presidents, The Hermitage on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So far, so good…
Posted in It's My Life, tagged Family, Holidays on November 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
No time for blogging today, thanks to my evil brother-in-law’s desire for a real Thanksgiving day meal. So far, I have made cornbread. I have my apples peeled and sliced (all 21 of them, from three different varieties). The pie dough needs another 20 minutes in the fridge before I can roll it out and get the [...]
Kicking off the holidays …
Posted in It's My Life, The Professoriate, tagged administrativa on November 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I must be truly insane. I kicked off my five-day weekend by — you guessed it — going to the office. It’s amazing what you can get accomplished when the students (and most of your colleagues) are gone. I arrived at 11 a.m., wrote an exam for my grad students, reworked the schedule for my [...]
Banned from my Thanksgiving Feast
Posted in It's My Life, tagged Food, Holidays on November 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Can you tell what food item has been
banned from my kitchen this year?
Thanksgiving Menu for Chez Disenchanted
(Serving four)
Brie, Pub Cheese, and Crackers
Red Bean Hummus with Flat Bread
Roasted Turkey, Brined and cooked with aromatics
Disenchanted’s Classic Southern Cornbread Stuffing
Roasted Fingerling Potatoes with Figs and Garlic
Broiled Figs Wrapped in Bacon
Roasted Beets
Candied Carrots
Cranberry Orange Salad
Apple Pie
Sick
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Sick on November 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Of course, I would get sick on the busiest day of my week. Just cancelled two meetings, two classes, and office hours. But hey, I haven’t grown a tail yet.
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Friday the 13th Edition
Posted in It's My Life, Miscellany, tagged Life, Travel on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Good:
The following email arrived in my mailbox this morning: ”We have finished processing your passport, and it has been mailed to you.”
Football season is over which means that The Coach and I can have a quiet night at home with frozen pizza and a movie.
Pre-registration advising is over and the stream of students invading my [...]
Cure for the Blues?
Posted in It's My Life, tagged Travel on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Since The Coach’s playoff hopes came to a crashing halt last night (although a senior *did* break the school’s rushing record), we are now free! Free, I tell you! No more Friday night games. No more Saturday film swaps. No more Sunday meetings. Of course, both of us are buried in grading (maybe today’s the [...]
Wanderlust
Posted in Travel, tagged Travel, wanderlust on November 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Ever since I dropped the application to renew my passport into the mail, I have been suffering from a bad, bad case of wanderlust. Maybe that’s not the only thing that has made me feel, well, restless. It is that time of the academic year when Dr. Disenchanted starts dreaming of escape. You probably know the [...]
Let the Circus Begin
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged Academia, administrativa, Advising on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ah, Monday, you’ve certainly made me your bitch. I have six people signed up for advising appointments today … and I still have a pile of grading to get through. Maybe it’s a good thing that I have to keep my department open until 6 p.m. today? Let’s just hope the traffic slows down after [...]
