The start of a great Needle Felted Face
Neato!
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Found on Flickr
gingerbread house
Oooo... wow! There's lots of neat gingerbread houses in this person's Flickr stream!
Gack!!! Mmmm... cake!
Well, I had my first class, and I wasn't lynched, so things must have gone okay. They all stared at me, and wrote down what I wrote, and sometimes whispered, and sometimes giggled... but mostly stared and wrote. I got them to provide a few brief one word responses, so they are all alive and well. My ROASS had one formatting error, and one cut-and-paste error. I looked stupid once (in my opinion), when I couldn't do an example I thought I would be able to. But I survived. I will correct the errors for the extra few ROASSes I need to print out (the online version is correct, it was converting it to latex that I messed up), and I will have the example nailed for next class.
Then I came upstairs and had my post-lecture "Gack!!!", and H gave me a celebratory piece of cake. Mmmm! Cake! Chocolate zucchini... chocolaty, moist, and zucchini unnoticeable. (I don't mind zucchini if I can't detect it.) Mmmmm!
Now I'm having happy cake thoughts. And will find/create some nice exercises dealing with logarithms, so my students can refamiliarize themselves with them... if they so choose. The best I can do is provide them with opportunities to be good students, and hope that they choose to use them.
Thinking happy cake thoughts...
Then I came upstairs and had my post-lecture "Gack!!!", and H gave me a celebratory piece of cake. Mmmm! Cake! Chocolate zucchini... chocolaty, moist, and zucchini unnoticeable. (I don't mind zucchini if I can't detect it.) Mmmmm!
Now I'm having happy cake thoughts. And will find/create some nice exercises dealing with logarithms, so my students can refamiliarize themselves with them... if they so choose. The best I can do is provide them with opportunities to be good students, and hope that they choose to use them.
Thinking happy cake thoughts...
Monday, May 05, 2008
Life is Still Crazy
And feels like it's getting crazier, if that's possible.
I'm still not ready for my first day of class tomorrow, but I need a mental break. I thought I'd write a short post, and perhaps read a few blog entries (of the 807 I'm behind on reading).
This weekend was crazy, but great. I got lots of great comments on my art, and a flattering number of votes for the people's choice awards. (Not enough to win, but enough to feel tickled about it.) A little girl was upset that I didn't have cards of one of my paintings, so Friday night I stayed up way too late in order to put together some PDFs for cards of that painting and two others. (Which my mom then kindly printed and assembled in the morning... thanks mom!!!) I can't remember exactly how many I sold of the 18 that were printed, but I'm pretty sure it was over half. (And more than enough to pay my mom for the materials and a pittance for her time. She set her own rate.)
I've just noticed that I can't seem to write grammatically correct English today. I'll try to proofread this so it isn't too horrible before I hit "post". (This weekend was so full that I feel mentally exhausted... not good for a Monday, especially the Monday before my first class.)
Other stuff that happened this weekend: I did laundry and washed a bunch (but not all) of dishes. I actually looked at the art at the show with my dad, and went to Canadian Tire to look at the TVs they had on sale. (I'll wait until the current one is dead for real.) I went to my dad's concert. (Great singing!) My demo at the art show was really well received. I got some knitting done between taking credit card orders. Everyone at the show was in a tizzy after one guy bought *16* paintings!!! (None of mine, though. But that's okay... I'm happy for the other people!) I bought two paintings with my exam period tutoring earnings. (Your (Canadian) tax dollars helped an ADD student, then me, and then local artists. Aren't you glad?) I also baked bread for lunches this week. Hmmm... what else? I washed the (remaining) leaves of my small ficus that seems to be having a bizarre fit after I repotted it (it may not survive). I hung up some more art on the walls. (Mostly my work that had been at the show.) I'm getting better at getting pictures exactly the height I want them. (I have a tendency to miscalculate... bad me.)
Speaking of miscalculating, my brain is getting even fuzzier. I think I'll stop writing for now. Thankfully I don't have any students in the Help Centre (yet) today. I've got half a ROASS* document, but no course material prepared. The web pages now refer to the current course offering now, though. (Not that there's much there... but at least what *is* there is correct, except for the broken links to the as-yet-to-be-uploaded ROASS document.)
I spent very little time at home this weekend. What time I was home was mostly spent sleeping, with the rest on eating and chores. No downtime leads to fuzzy brains for me. I'm too tired to deal with proofreading the rest of this... (I took care of the first bit right before I wrote the first comment on how bad my writing is) I hope it isn't too bad. Sorry if it is.
*ROASS stands for "Responsibilities Of Academic Staff with regards to Students." It has stuff like my info, office hours, course outline, important dates, grading breakdown, academic dishonesty, etc.
I'm still not ready for my first day of class tomorrow, but I need a mental break. I thought I'd write a short post, and perhaps read a few blog entries (of the 807 I'm behind on reading).
This weekend was crazy, but great. I got lots of great comments on my art, and a flattering number of votes for the people's choice awards. (Not enough to win, but enough to feel tickled about it.) A little girl was upset that I didn't have cards of one of my paintings, so Friday night I stayed up way too late in order to put together some PDFs for cards of that painting and two others. (Which my mom then kindly printed and assembled in the morning... thanks mom!!!) I can't remember exactly how many I sold of the 18 that were printed, but I'm pretty sure it was over half. (And more than enough to pay my mom for the materials and a pittance for her time. She set her own rate.)
I've just noticed that I can't seem to write grammatically correct English today. I'll try to proofread this so it isn't too horrible before I hit "post". (This weekend was so full that I feel mentally exhausted... not good for a Monday, especially the Monday before my first class.)
Other stuff that happened this weekend: I did laundry and washed a bunch (but not all) of dishes. I actually looked at the art at the show with my dad, and went to Canadian Tire to look at the TVs they had on sale. (I'll wait until the current one is dead for real.) I went to my dad's concert. (Great singing!) My demo at the art show was really well received. I got some knitting done between taking credit card orders. Everyone at the show was in a tizzy after one guy bought *16* paintings!!! (None of mine, though. But that's okay... I'm happy for the other people!) I bought two paintings with my exam period tutoring earnings. (Your (Canadian) tax dollars helped an ADD student, then me, and then local artists. Aren't you glad?) I also baked bread for lunches this week. Hmmm... what else? I washed the (remaining) leaves of my small ficus that seems to be having a bizarre fit after I repotted it (it may not survive). I hung up some more art on the walls. (Mostly my work that had been at the show.) I'm getting better at getting pictures exactly the height I want them. (I have a tendency to miscalculate... bad me.)
Speaking of miscalculating, my brain is getting even fuzzier. I think I'll stop writing for now. Thankfully I don't have any students in the Help Centre (yet) today. I've got half a ROASS* document, but no course material prepared. The web pages now refer to the current course offering now, though. (Not that there's much there... but at least what *is* there is correct, except for the broken links to the as-yet-to-be-uploaded ROASS document.)
I spent very little time at home this weekend. What time I was home was mostly spent sleeping, with the rest on eating and chores. No downtime leads to fuzzy brains for me. I'm too tired to deal with proofreading the rest of this... (I took care of the first bit right before I wrote the first comment on how bad my writing is) I hope it isn't too bad. Sorry if it is.
*ROASS stands for "Responsibilities Of Academic Staff with regards to Students." It has stuff like my info, office hours, course outline, important dates, grading breakdown, academic dishonesty, etc.
Saturday, May 03, 2008
Found on Flickr
Juan and Iota
I have been neglecting my blog, what with all the other stuff I'm doing these days. I saw this on Flickr this morning, and decided that if I'm not putting much else up, I can at least put up something adorable. ;)
Enjoy!
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Found on Flickr
Carved soap
Wow. What intricate, well done designs.
I hate to say it, but my first thought upon discovering these are carved soaps was actually "someone has too much time on their hands."
Do you think anyone uses these? It seems a shame to use them, but then soap isn't exactly a permanent medium either. I suppose you could display them for a while, and then use them.
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