Springtime and Immigration
I am so sorry for the lack of posting. This semester has been flying by. In addition to teaching at two different universities, I have been engaged in non-teaching activities.
I made a presentation on my time in Costa Rica to ADK, a retired teacher's sorority. I also presented a paper to a group at UK. Later in March, I jet-setted out to Vancouver for the SFAA Meetings where I presented a paper entitled, "En Esta Vida Nada es Gratis": Maintaining Rural Households through Urban Prison Employment in Costa Rica. My sister, Melissa, and her husband, Dave, drove up from Portland for my time there. We ate out a lot and they bought me a couple of nice meals. We had a good time. I stole their hotel lotion, because it smelled better than my hotel lotion. I stayed at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. They were at the Westin. It was an old school meets new school kind of contrast in hotel architecture and attitude.
Vancouver was nice, but I easily grow weary of urban environments and was not unhappy to return to my pastoral bliss in Bath County. After Vancouver, I participated in a free trade panel at Transy the following day my teaching was evaluated by the department chair at the other university where I work. Overall everything went well and I am ready for the end of the term!
Ancho and I have been working like crazies both in Lexington and on our homestead fantasy. Recent accomplishments include:
We cleaned out the old tobacco barn down the hill from our house.
Ancho slaughtered 6 roosters on Sunday, while I graded 5 zillion papers that recounted the murder of Crazy Horse.
Ancho has been fixing the electric garden fence in preparation for the first spring sowing.
I planted pansies in planters.
We have been to several gardening centers to purchase seeds in hopes that this will be the year we take it over the top with agricultural production. Now that I have managed to steal my mother's pressure cooker the sky is the limit!
The most satisfying act of welcoming spring thus far has been ripping the piece of insulation we put up around the (very old and rickety) bathroom window. Now the bathroom is ablaze with afternoon lsunlight, and the jade plant has been relocated to the bathroom to benefit from the infusion of ultraviolet radiance.
This past Monday I attended the pro immigrant rally in Lexington where I chanted "Yes We Can" and "The People United Can Never Be Defeated" in Spanish. It was great. My friend Olaf even filmed me yelling like crazy. I felt that the rally allowed me to marry my former cheerleading talents with my revolutionary fantasies, and so for me it was a very satisfying experience. The
turn out was pretty good and the weather was amazing!
The dissertation work continues and should get ramped up with the end of the term at UK in early May. Then of course there is that little ceremony Ancho and I are having at the end of July.
I welcome each and every one of you to spring!
I made a presentation on my time in Costa Rica to ADK, a retired teacher's sorority. I also presented a paper to a group at UK. Later in March, I jet-setted out to Vancouver for the SFAA Meetings where I presented a paper entitled, "En Esta Vida Nada es Gratis": Maintaining Rural Households through Urban Prison Employment in Costa Rica. My sister, Melissa, and her husband, Dave, drove up from Portland for my time there. We ate out a lot and they bought me a couple of nice meals. We had a good time. I stole their hotel lotion, because it smelled better than my hotel lotion. I stayed at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. They were at the Westin. It was an old school meets new school kind of contrast in hotel architecture and attitude.
Vancouver was nice, but I easily grow weary of urban environments and was not unhappy to return to my pastoral bliss in Bath County. After Vancouver, I participated in a free trade panel at Transy the following day my teaching was evaluated by the department chair at the other university where I work. Overall everything went well and I am ready for the end of the term!
Ancho and I have been working like crazies both in Lexington and on our homestead fantasy. Recent accomplishments include:
We cleaned out the old tobacco barn down the hill from our house.
Ancho slaughtered 6 roosters on Sunday, while I graded 5 zillion papers that recounted the murder of Crazy Horse.
Ancho has been fixing the electric garden fence in preparation for the first spring sowing.
I planted pansies in planters.
We have been to several gardening centers to purchase seeds in hopes that this will be the year we take it over the top with agricultural production. Now that I have managed to steal my mother's pressure cooker the sky is the limit!
The most satisfying act of welcoming spring thus far has been ripping the piece of insulation we put up around the (very old and rickety) bathroom window. Now the bathroom is ablaze with afternoon lsunlight, and the jade plant has been relocated to the bathroom to benefit from the infusion of ultraviolet radiance.
This past Monday I attended the pro immigrant rally in Lexington where I chanted "Yes We Can" and "The People United Can Never Be Defeated" in Spanish. It was great. My friend Olaf even filmed me yelling like crazy. I felt that the rally allowed me to marry my former cheerleading talents with my revolutionary fantasies, and so for me it was a very satisfying experience. The
turn out was pretty good and the weather was amazing!
The dissertation work continues and should get ramped up with the end of the term at UK in early May. Then of course there is that little ceremony Ancho and I are having at the end of July.
I welcome each and every one of you to spring!
posted by ancho and lefty at 9:30 AM
2 Comments:
You were a cheerleader? I had no idea.
I told the class today about my favorite educated Gen X expression, your "Pshaw. Whatever."
You must have mellowed.
hello, I just read this because, I am new on this blog thing, I felt the same thing about the inmigration rally, Thank you for sharing it.
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