Behold!:

MICHAELMAS!


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Naaaaaahhh naah naah na na na naaahh ... na na na naaahh....Kinda flying right now. Just spent the last three-and-a-half hours with Kevin, one of my best friends from Notre Dame, who I hadn't actually seen face-to-face for 14 months, since visiting him and Frannie in Tulsa a year ago last December. He had discovered a few weeks ago that he would ( Read more... )

Not doing the school thing still feels like a bit of the end-of-the-year luxury, and so maybe that's part of why the dissertation is slow to warm up. On the other hand, the project is like getting back together with a girl I've been dating long-distance for awhile: I'm having to re-acquaint myself with the reality of it all again. Especially ( Read more... )

Wagghh. Everything's been so much about grading over the last week that I've not really been online to speak of, other than to take care of emails about grading. I'll have to catch up on other people's journals as well as my own ( Read more... )

Back in from Chicago. I had just missed the train to Milwaukee when I arrived at Union Station this morning, so I had an afternoon's ride up here, running along the nature reserves and bike paths that line the tracks, the trees and fields all a streaming galaxy of colours, still with much of the glory of "peak week," and shining in today's ( Read more... )

The final full day of my Wyoming visit was a week ago Sunday, and was the day where the Flemings gave me the most indulgence in an indulgent visit. That was the day Kevin and I went off just to do some more serious walking. There was a lake that Frannie had suggested I hike to, on the shoulder of the mountains, about a 4-mile trek, but we ended ( Read more... )

Well, it's been a busy week, settling back into school after the time off in Jackson, Wyoming, but I do want to finish my account of those fun days.

You know, it seems that every time I come out to Jackson, I find myself eating some new animal: wild boar, bison, elk, and now this time - quail. I know, I know... that's probably a lot less exotic ( Read more... )

Mike and Donna bought a place last year, a Milwaukee Bungalow in the Riverwest neighbourhood, that needed lots of work done on it in order to convert it from duplex to the single-family home that they wanted. Now, when I think of "fixing up" a place I move into, I'm thinking painting and maybe some very basic wood surface work. Mike, like Dan, ( Read more... )

Friday featured my interview with Peter Giersch of Cathedral Consulting Group on the prospect of taking the Headmaster position at a local private Catholic academy. I had told him up front that there was something like less than a one percent chance that I was really interested in the position, but that I would be interested in talking with him ( Read more... )

For at least a month, I've had the DVD of American Psycho on my coffeetable. I admit it: I've been foot-dragging. I don't generally care for horror movies. There are images I have no need to have in my head. Yet, I will also admit recognizing The Silence of the Lambs as a fabulous film when I saw it, and important as a kind of study of evil, ( Read more... )