Photos of Travalon's Ramblings

 

Yesterday I worked on campus and met the Professor Formerly Known as Lute Player for lunch. In the afternoon I went to my first Academic Staff Assembly meeting. It was more high-tech than the University Staff Congress; for example, we had to swipe our ID card to sign in, whereas the other one just had a piece of paper with your district number on it, and if that piece of paper was missing, it was assumed that you had taken it. That's how they took attendance. I was there for two reasons: the chairs of the committee I was on to do a report on ageism in the university gave their presentation of our final report, and I volunteered to be the alternate for my district, since we have a representative but no alternate. The Assembly seems more female and clean-cut than the Congress, and the weird thing is that their executive committee sat at the front, facing us like a row of mean girls in the high school cafeteria. There were also a lot more of them than there were on the Central Committee, of which I was Vice Chair. I'm a bit sore with them because I had been on a protest response team for years as a University Staff representative, so I applied to be an Academic Staff representative, since the position was open... and they didn't choose me. In the evening I had yet another meeting, for our condo board.

Today I worked from home and had two meetings this morning, and in fact someone tried to put yet another meeting on my calendar at the same time as those two. Travalon and I walked on Governor's Island at lunch, and after work I went to Adoration as usual. I led Night Prayer, as I often do on Tuesdays, and today every regular showed up, so we had a baker's dozen of us. 

Here are the things Travalon got at Greek Fest on Saturday. The fish is a fridge magnet.

Our neighbors were just chilling out this morning.

Here are some photos from the boardwalk in DeForest that we walked on this past Sunday. It's right next to the Yahara River.

It's a long boardwalk, and it feels like you're in the jungle.

Travalon got a Hot Wheels car he had as a kid - it's from 1974 and is called Large Charge.

Here are some other photos Travalon sent me. A tree up by the monastery on Highway M is already changing colors, and this was last week!

While I was at Irish Fest, he went on road trips. Here's the Lafayette County Courthouse in Darlington.

This is the waterfall at Governor Dodge State Park.

This is Stewart Lake County Park in Mount Horeb, which I have never been to in all the times I've been to that town.

And this is Junk and Disorderly Antique Shop in Blanchardville.

Travalon went there when he visited Yellowstone Lake State Park.

As you can see, he didn't get bored while I was away fiddling and speaking in Irish.

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