how to peel an egg

okay, so these videos are sponsored by Sprint. Nonetheless, I love these tips. The egg thing really works. I did it five times in a row this morning much to my delight. We made hard-boiled eggs just to try this.

Check it out!

Going Native

Today we went to the ice races. It is rather hard to explain -- involves a couple hundred people, junker race cars, beer, snowmobiles, ice fishing shacks and a lot of testosterone all coming together on the frozen surface of Lake Michigan's Green Bay.

This video of our good friend Cyndee (who graciously invited us to join her on the ice and fed us Booyah) explains all. It also should be pointed out that Cyndee's outfit not only includes her hot-pink down coat and David's deer-hunting hat but also leopard print gloves and boots (not seen here).

how i got the job

we are in brooklyn visiting Hollis, Maggie, and Jane. we walked their dog to Prospect Park this morning where there are off-leash hours until 9am; there were more dogs in that park than students on the UW-Marinette campus. There are more restaurants on this block in Brooklyn than in the 2-3 mile radius around our house. (There are also oodles of non-white and/or non-straight people. Crazy!) This morning, Rhonda saw a squirrel run by the window with a styrofoam cup in its mouth, and she responded by shaking her head and saying "it is just not right. Just not right."

we are enjoying good company and good food. At the same time, the time to return to our midwestern homestead is nearing, and I am appreciative of this fact. It has been good to get away from life-as-we-now-know-it, and it will also be quite good to return to our new home.

Hollis made me dig up this video I made last year as I was preparing for the job market. please accept it as a token of my utter lack of sanity and as an insight into how I landed myself a gig as an english prof.