Over the past two days, I have actually spent a good deal of time outside and have gotten... gasp!... excercise!

On Friday, I went hiking at the Big Four Ice Caves with Liz, and then today, I went swimming at Madison Park and got stung by a bee. While it was painful, I got to try out the new technique I learned for removing the stinger. Instead of ( Read more... )

I just had a really encouraging meeting with Thesis Committee Chair. He told me that he thinks I will be good to go after one more revision. He told me there is no reason I shouldn't defend this quarter, which was really good to hear. While the paper revisions definitely sound doable, I am more concerned about my ability to finish all the little ( Read more... )

Check out what I made in SketchUp using Benny's Pac-Man model!


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My week started off in a disappointing fashion. Monday I had to put my thesis aside so that I could work on my exhibit design for Museum Operations, which I did while watching the horrible images from Virginia Tech. Here are a couple of views of the exhibit I created.


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Despite a day full of frustration, I managed to have one of those 'Eureka!' moments that sends you running naked down the street, fresh from the bath.

Last night I went and saw a double header of Bullitt and Hot Fuzz at the Varsity. Both films were FAN-tastic! However, upon returning home, I found that I had misplaced my house and car keys. After ( Read more... )

That's right! The project that Erin, Morgan, Ingrid and myself slaved over all last quarter at the Frye Art Museum just got selected to be included in the Re-thinking Museums conference at the UW. We will be delivering a 15 minute presentation and our paper will be published in the conference proceedings.

Toot toot goes my horn!

I spent yet another afternoon typing in the Burke dungeon. I am pleased to say I have a solid 10+ pages of thesis written out of an intended 30 to add to the massive binder of appendices that will be my exhibit proposal. Today I revised the beginnings of my "greater context" section titled, "IMAX in Museums" and the moved on to write most of the ( Read more... )

You know what's disturbing?

Parents who get all worked up about their kid's performance in a virtual soccer game!

You know what's awesome?

Having your boss ask you to apply for the next level up the pay scale, because you got valuable skillz!

Today was a good, semi-productive day.

I woke up and read three chapters of Harry Potter. I had begun reading Order of the Phoenix over Christmas break and then got distracted by a thing called school. So, I am allowing myself a bit of fantastical indulgence on spring break.

Once I got up, I registered for classes, which thanks to our program being ( Read more... )