french roast was probably a bad idea

This week marks a return to normalcy around these parts. The past two weeks have been busy, busy, busy: first a friend rolled into town last weekend, and then we all reconvened in Green Bay for yet another Highland Days. It's been a whirlwind of ugly '80s sweaters, cold beaches, green olive burgers, Hendrick's, Gerald Ford, wedding dress shopping, squash roasting, and playing Apples to Apples to the sounds of Rock Band. I was lucky enough to have the AV riding shotgun with me as we drove our way all the way around Lake Michigan this weekend, and I was also lucky enough to see the B for all of ten minutes yesterday at a Kwik Trip south of Milwaukee. And it's been fun.

Fun, but also not big on sleep. This morning I let the alarm go unheeded, then put on some coffee and tried to get through my To Do list. I have this week and early next to move through a bunch of important stuff before November hits and we start thinking about portfolios and turkey gravy and head back out on the road.

Yeahhhhhh. You know those days where you're supposed to be doing lesson plans, but then midway through you decide to call up your old bank and close your accounts (even though they're fine, there's no activity, and that small task could probably wait until you get through your explanation of effective logo design), and from there you realize that your textbook orders are due, so you get into a complicated back-and-forth with the department secretary regarding ISBNs, and then you freak out over kenneling the dog the weekend you're heading back to Fredonia and OHMYGOD better get your glasses tightened and talk to the guy who's doing your author Web sites and then it's three-thirty and you're surrounded by a pile of half-completed shit? Exactly. I have no doubt that tomorrow I'll step into the classroom with these "lesson plans" only to find that instead of discussion questions, I have written

In your groups, analyze the logos that each group member is brung to discuss. Then determine which are the most effective in regards to the following characteristics:

• butternut squash
• polenta (one tube)
• ???Truman grooming???
• CALL JIM N. RE: WEB SITES
  

And the studes will turn their beautiful, blank faces to me, and I'll shrug. Hey, don't worry, guys! THIS SHIT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE, BUT AT LEAST I GOT TO BLOG ABOUT IT. HEY, GOOD LUCK ON THE JOB MARKET.