It's been a busy couple of weeks. I just managed to get myself caught up on grading algebra, and have a lot more of my AP class to grade. Man, I'm so behind. I hope they don't kill me for not getting their grades in. Otherwise, I'm pretty exhausted right now. I believe I will take this opportunity to go to bed. Sorry for being so boring, but I lost coherency at about 9:30pm tonight.

I didn't expect to start the weekend in the emergency room.

The only two times I've been to the emergency room, it's been with the same person. Neither time was me being injured.

Yikes.

In the Heat

So, finally...usbank got the payment for September! Which is a relief.

In other news, ceramics. That's the undergrad course I'm currently taking. Working in clay is fun. The medium is "difficult" in the idea that it is imprecise and requires so much technique for craft. I guess traditional artists would feel the same way about my computer as a medium.

I think my students are a little surprised about how fast I can draw and animate in Flash. I feel somewhat the same way about how Bob works the techniques.

I am now officially a first degree black belt. :)

Busy and Broke

So things have been so busy with me. I've been teaching, taking an undergrad class (to get myself used to taking classes for when I start grad classes), and trying to do all the stuff associated with having a house.

I had one class cancelled during the first week of class (only 4 people in the class) and then was assigned another class on the second week of classes. I will probably only teach this class one semester...so it's a toss up as to reediting the course work to my style or just going with the flow...

The house is great. Of course, Wells Fargo sold the loan to usbank. I knew it was going to happen. But it sucks: I mailed an early payment to Wells Fargo. It has disappeared. So I paid them for Sept, and now usbank wants it too...

Grrr. So I'm broke. That and all the expenses started to pile up.

So I'm taking donations.

Send me money.

Please?

Or gift certificates to IKEA.

I'm running off to the closing night of my play. If I didn't note it before, I'll tell you that I'm a playwright as well as all of the other stuff. I'm actually pretty excited about this last piece I wrote, which features five incredibly complex characters and a Greek chorus. I didn't think it was going to work, but it does... and it's good... so anyway, I'll be back in a couple of hours or so.

Blah. It's way too late. Anyway, I've been burning some of my creative juices on ROM, and I'm happy to say that the next section of my rewrite has pretty much been completed. It should be pretty fun. Time to move onto the larger phase before I can release.

Anyway, my first full week of school is done, and I'm at the same time more prepared and busier than I was last year. I still have a lot of grad school work to do in the next few weeks, and I have a play opening (and closing) this weekend. I attended the dress rehearsal this evening, and essentially was stage manager. But now it looks like a number of my students will be attending, so I'm pretty excited about that. It's looking like it's managing along well.

One mob!

I would like to report that I just made one mob.

Of course, that one mob had four items on her, so I had to make the four items.

But that's ONE MOB!

Now, time to go to bed so I can get up for school tomorrow.

Happiness is...

An apple-flavored Mentos candy.

Well, school started yesterday. I have some interesting classes this year, and they're interested in having me help out with many different classes... so far I'm teaching 2, 4, 6, and 8th period. We'll see what else they put me on... whee.