I’ve had mixed feelings about the opening of the first Trader Joe’s in Charlottesville. It’s hard to imagine what we’ve done to deserve it—we are, after all, a town of fewer than 40,000 people, though the county surrounding us is…
In the ‘Ville
Updates, random thoughts, musings, practical jokes
School’s Out!
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For summer, but not forever. I’m done with grading. I’ll be blogging again soon.
25 Random Things
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1. Birds love me. Especially hawks. I used to get visits from a red-tailed hawk and a Cooper’s hawk (separately of course). They’d fly down to my deck to check out the action at the bird feeder and look in…
Liveblogging the blizzard…
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This is an oops. I made this post and forgot to publish it back at Christmastime. But now that we’ve had the hottest, driest summer since 2002–our record drought–it’s kind of interesting to see what was going on a few…