Luxor

Poor baby. He'd been sick for quite a while and he passed away last night.

My parents got him after I moved up here to go to school, but he was still part of our family and he was sweet and loving and I'm very sad he's gone.

Throwing Clay

How exciting!?

I had my first ceramics class this morning. The instructor gave an introduction to the course and we talked about clay and the steps in the process. He gave us our first two assignments and most of the class left. The three of us that stayed went straight to work on the wheels. I got 3/4's of the way through making a cylinder before I needed some help. The instructor walked me through the last step, but I think it's going to require a lot of practice.

Fun stuff! Messy... but fun!

Confusing ya

You know how you think you know something, but you don't really want to know it. And it's not really your business to know in the first place? But it seems pretty obvious and maybe you're in denial because you care about the people involved, though you're not in a position to do or say anything about it?

Yeah?

It sucks.

And then you find out not only were you right, but there's worse.

Sucks to the power of 10.

And if you followed that I'm amazed. So kudos.

Back to Nature

Usually I spend a good bit of time outside during the summer. However, with 3 and 4 jobs this summer I haven't spent any time outside.

So I found it absolutely wonderful when I was able to go for a nice walk in the woods with a friend yesterday. I went out to visit this friend, who has 40 acres in the woods. She cooked an amazing dinner and then we went on our tramp, where we saw a couple of fairly young deer bouncing through the trees. Afterwards we sat and spun on our wheels for over an hour. Good times. It was just the sort of relaxing evening I needed to get my mind off of things.

Vampires, past & future

Well apparently the people in charge of Moonlight realized that the public realized it was a total rip-off of Forever Knight. Seems they're making some changes... and swearing they're not ripping off Angel, while failing to acknowledge FK ever existed. The article mentions they've made quite a few changes... The love interest is now a reporter instead of working at a morgue, etc.

*chuckle*

Renovations

My *CLANG* landlords are doing some *THUMP* renovating *BUMP* in the apartment next to mine. *CRASH* They were nice enough to warn me about it yesterday... but wowsers I had no idea they'd be that loud.

Oh and apparently I'm not done with Concordia yet. Just got the schedule for this weekend and I'm working 5am-5pm on Sunday.

Ah well.

Once more with feeling...

It's that time of the year again...

Professors are slowly trickling back to prepare for their fall courses. I'm making up the fall lab schedule and looking forward to my last semester of classes... Possibly forever... though surely not. If I'm addicted to anything other than tea and chicken fajitas, surely it is education! I love learning.

There's a certain Feeling in the air that's hard to explain... it's just the Feeling that comes at this time of the year.

And it's also a bit different this year, because I know this is the last time I'll be helping professors get their computers up and running after a three month break, looking forward to old friends (and potential new ones) coming back after the summer and looking forward to classes.

Odd. To be looking forward to something and at the same time sad because it's the last time you can look forward to it...

Follow your heart...

This Watch can help...

*chuckle*

A Canadian friend of mine shared this link with me.

If you're bored and want a little chuckle you should watch the entire thing.

Apparently the USB is English...

/ponder

Instead of dreaming...

I've been reading... well scanning... too tired to focus on anything for too long, but this stuff looks promising. Will read more when the sun is up.

Government Grant to Preserve Virtual Worlds (Second Life)

Instructional Scaffolding

The Year 3000

Classroom Practices

EduBlogger World

There seem to be a lot of kid-adventure-fantasy-books-made-into-movies... movies coming out these days...

The Golden Compass
The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Seeker: The Dark is Rising

And there's a.. uhm... an Interesting version of Beowulf coming out.

*flip*

*flop*

*blink*

*stare*

*sigh*

It's 4am and I shouldn't be doing any of these things... but that's exactly what I have been doing since around 2:30am.

Bah.

Up in the air

Everything is... up in the air.

One job prospect turned out not to be a prospect. "They" (the higher ups) decided to cancel the position, nobody knows who is going to be doing the work... It still has to be done...

My other job prospect is still out there. I'm waiting to hear something... anything...

As for what I'm doing now... Well, I'm still working for the Ed Dept. I'm in charge of the lab, making up the Fall lab schedule, helping professors with various technology needs and working (alone) on the accreditation stuff.

I *think* I'm done working for Concordia. I'm not on the schedule for this weekend (and that's the last weekend for this summer). So... unless an emergency pops up I'll have my Sundays back! Woot!

This has been a lonely summer. That's the problem with living in a College society, everyone goes home for the summer. Except that THIS year everyone has moved on/moved off... Several went back home to the cities, others moved to South Dakota and Arizona. I only have two friends left here. I have lunch once a week with one of them and the other... well things aren't so good there.

Bah.

Dreaming of NZ...

Last night I dreamed I was back in NZ, this time with my parents. I was showing them the sights, visiting with old friends...

It could be because I know two people who are there now... because the last thing I watched before I went to sleep was Flight of the Conchords... or because three years ago tomorrow I boarded a plane for the biggest adventure of my life...

In any case... I haven't decided if it was a good dream or not... because I woke up missing NZ more than normal.

I will say it's gotten better as time has passed, but there's still a deep longing to return.

One day...

Near misses...

I finished picking-up and dropping off campers, climbed back in my Element and headed for home. I'd barely started out when something came falling from the sky, hitting the street a few feet in front of my car.... a baseball from the baseball fields.

A block from my house something came flying across the road a few feet in front of my car... a golf ball from the putt-putt golf place.

I was very relieved when no bowling balls came at me as I passed the bowling alley.

Flight of the Conchords

If you've never seen/heard of these kiwis you really should look them up. Now they have a show on HBO on Sunday nights.

I've only caught one episode, but it was hilarious... and of course I love their live shows.

You can find some clips of them on YouTube if you're curious...

I posted about them last year... but I want to post about them again... cuz they're pretty much awesome.