It was another weekend of Wisconsin sports, although not a very cheery one. We packed up the car with another load of books and other odds and ends for the condo and headed over early Friday afternoon. We went over early to see the ground breaking ceremony for the new Chemistry building. The Chemistry department is building a new (as if you could build an old), nine story building to house teaching labs and classrooms. Turns out that 60% of students graduating now need to take a chemistry course - who knew that chemistry had gotten so popular. The department had been struggling to provide enough course options when crammed in to their current facilities. What this means is that the main entrance, old teaching labs, and lecture halls where we spent many an hour will be torn down. We reminisced about the seminars we had to present in the lecture halls, the fun of teaching undergraduates in the labs, and caught up with a few professors. Fun times especially finding the chart of all the graduates where our names are listed (you can now find us displayed in two buildings in the US - quite the stars).
Saturday we got up early and took a nice long walk to see some of the flooding that occurred on the east side of Madison and to pretend we got a little exercise. That helped us justify picking up a cinnamon roll at the Farmer's Market to add to our breakfast. We tried to be good by not getting the morning bun we usually add - we're sure we were calorie neutral between all that walking and the one cinnamon roll. We then headed out to do a little more furniture shopping - coffee tables where on our list this weekend - before the football game. Afterwards, it was back home for a quick lunch before lathering on the sun screen and spending three hours baking in the hot sunshine watching the Badgers lose to Brigham Young. Great way to lose about 15 pounds of body weight through sweating as the day was very warm and very humid. Wisconsin is supposed to be cool and dry this time of year. But, even though we lost and had completely sweated through our clothes, we had a great time cheering on our team, watching the band, and spending the day outside. We also tried to keep reminding ourselves that we will miss this heat come the November football games.
We headed home early on Sunday so that we could finally get to the gym on a weekend and also so that we could catch the Packer's game. Another not so great game and coupling that with the Brewer's losing to the Pirates, you can see why it wasn't a very cheery weekend for Wisconsin sports. Nothing too exciting planned for the week, the usual mix of work, exercise, and home chores. Oh that and packing up another load of boxes to continue the transfer of stuff from one house to the other.
It was another weekend of Wisconsin sports, although not a very cheery one. We packed up the car with another load of books and other odds and ends for the condo and headed over early Friday afternoon. We went over early to see the ground breaking ceremony for the new Chemistry building. The Chemistry department is building a new (as if you could build an old), nine story building to house teaching labs and classrooms. Turns out that 60% of students graduating now need to take a chemistry course - who knew that chemistry had gotten so popular. The department had been struggling to provide enough course options when crammed in to their current facilities. What this means is that the main entrance, old teaching labs, and lecture halls where we spent many an hour will be torn down. We reminisced about the seminars we had to present in the lecture halls, the fun of teaching undergraduates in the labs, and caught up with a few professors. Fun times especially finding the chart of all the graduates where our names are listed (you can now find us displayed in two buildings in the US - quite the stars).
Saturday we got up early and took a nice long walk to see some of the flooding that occurred on the east side of Madison and to pretend we got a little exercise. That helped us justify picking up a cinnamon roll at the Farmer's Market to add to our breakfast. We tried to be good by not getting the morning bun we usually add - we're sure we were calorie neutral between all that walking and the one cinnamon roll. We then headed out to do a little more furniture shopping - coffee tables where on our list this weekend - before the football game. Afterwards, it was back home for a quick lunch before lathering on the sun screen and spending three hours baking in the hot sunshine watching the Badgers lose to Brigham Young. Great way to lose about 15 pounds of body weight through sweating as the day was very warm and very humid. Wisconsin is supposed to be cool and dry this time of year. But, even though we lost and had completely sweated through our clothes, we had a great time cheering on our team, watching the band, and spending the day outside. We also tried to keep reminding ourselves that we will miss this heat come the November football games.
We headed home early on Sunday so that we could finally get to the gym on a weekend and also so that we could catch the Packer's game. Another not so great game and coupling that with the Brewer's losing to the Pirates, you can see why it wasn't a very cheery weekend for Wisconsin sports. Nothing too exciting planned for the week, the usual mix of work, exercise, and home chores. Oh that and packing up another load of boxes to continue the transfer of stuff from one house to the other.
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