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By way of Making Light:
This guy who paints himself to match his surroundings and blends in perfectly.
Emma says I can brag on her all I want. She's brilliant! She's compassionate! She's recovering from knee surgery and taking four classes (which is a class extra in a quarter system, because you ahve only nine weeks to do everything) and was working till a couple weeks ago and working on two plays, one of which she is writing with a couple other students!
And yesterday she helped me get over the hump of posting crap on Craig's List.
I'm posting:
-- a vintage rapidograph technical pen set in okay condition (posted yesterday as part of the tutorial process)
-- a pantograph (manual enlarger/shrinking device for hand-drawn pictures), lightly used
-- a telescope (I need to get the list from upstairs before I post details, but it's huge)
-- a darkroom timer
-- a ricoh 35-mm camera
-- a small classroom-sized cuisenaire rod set
-- a small-group sized base-ten set, no thousand cube
I got to see some of her photos from her Seattle honeymoon too.
And I had her banana bread for breakfast.
Daughters are fantastic.
Progress: I have emptied like ten of the wtf? boxes. I have put all my clothes away. I have sorted out maybe six boxes of books for the used book store. I still have the equivalent of ten miscellaneous papers boxes to go through. Fortunately many of these turn out to be stuff I kept because I thought I might be a high school teacher again, and I have definitely closed the door on that. As much as I enjoy teaching reading, I only miss it a little bit, and I don't miss educational politics at all. I think I'm going to stick right where I am, if that turns out to be possible, until I die or retire (the latter may be unlikely, though, because it doesn't pay that much).
This guy who paints himself to match his surroundings and blends in perfectly.
Emma says I can brag on her all I want. She's brilliant! She's compassionate! She's recovering from knee surgery and taking four classes (which is a class extra in a quarter system, because you ahve only nine weeks to do everything) and was working till a couple weeks ago and working on two plays, one of which she is writing with a couple other students!
And yesterday she helped me get over the hump of posting crap on Craig's List.
I'm posting:
-- a vintage rapidograph technical pen set in okay condition (posted yesterday as part of the tutorial process)
-- a pantograph (manual enlarger/shrinking device for hand-drawn pictures), lightly used
-- a telescope (I need to get the list from upstairs before I post details, but it's huge)
-- a darkroom timer
-- a ricoh 35-mm camera
-- a small classroom-sized cuisenaire rod set
-- a small-group sized base-ten set, no thousand cube
I got to see some of her photos from her Seattle honeymoon too.
And I had her banana bread for breakfast.
Daughters are fantastic.
Progress: I have emptied like ten of the wtf? boxes. I have put all my clothes away. I have sorted out maybe six boxes of books for the used book store. I still have the equivalent of ten miscellaneous papers boxes to go through. Fortunately many of these turn out to be stuff I kept because I thought I might be a high school teacher again, and I have definitely closed the door on that. As much as I enjoy teaching reading, I only miss it a little bit, and I don't miss educational politics at all. I think I'm going to stick right where I am, if that turns out to be possible, until I die or retire (the latter may be unlikely, though, because it doesn't pay that much).