Bad Blog Mommy

I have been a bad blog mommy of late. I have allowed my blog to sit unattended and, at times, unbathed, for far too long. I would like to place blame on Sarah Palin, the University of Wisconsin Colleges, and Buddy, to start.

I have been having a hard time dealing with the wallop packed by the beginning of the academic year. You see, colleges and universities have this genteel etiquette of giving new faculty less responsibility in their first year. It was lovely back when I was new, and the only committee meetings I had to attend dealt with potlucks and the occasional campus event. However, as I begin my second year at a professor, I feel like it was a mean, mean trick to convince me that I really like my job, and then add twice the work. I am struggling to recapture that feeling of warm-fuzziness that was a regular part of my first-year experience, and in the meantime, I am disoriented and confused by the amount of meetings, charts, bylaws and agendas.

But enough whining. We did something very cool this morning: we bought 5 dozen ears of corn and par-boiled and then cut it off the cob. We now have 18 bags of corn (3 cups per bag) to last us all winter long.




Geez, I don't know. Maybe I complain too much. Maybe Sarah Palin is right -- we can have it all!