I Should Update More Often.
So, LJ land... what's going on?
I start back to school in a week and a half. :D I was asked to grant permission to publish some of my projects from last semester's art class on the UCD department website, including my multimedia project on Edvard Munch, which was pretty cool. I'm looking forward to my new batch of classes, and find it funny that my French Culture class is using a text called Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French. Should be fun!
It's been freezing here! I guess it's freezing pretty much everywhere. Even Florida has iguanas falling out of trees as they freeze and immobilize and lose their grip. Sheesh. Makes for a funny video, though! Here, it's been in the negative temps and snowing this past week, but we're expecting 50's this weekend, so that's a nice break.
Spent last night at the Cub Scout Leader's house building a Derby Car with Jhonen. We were sweetly invited to dinner over there and a private build in the garage, bc we hadn't really planned to participate (didn't have the materials and came into the Scouts late so we were out of the loop until the last minute) but Dean insisted. It was fun. The race is tomorrow in the school cafeteria (since All Souls sponsors the pack). Jhonen's dad is taking him (since they're with him every Fri night through Sat 6pm), but I'm gonna go watch too.
RCIA starts back up on Sunday, after a two week hiatus. Jhonen will be involved in a presentation with his 2nd grade class at Mass, for their upcoming First Reconciliation & First Communion.
Monday night I'll be attending Safe Environment Training at the Church so I can volunteer with the kids, while Bela and Jhonen go to the LeManske's for a Cub Scout meeting. Worked out with Dean to give them a ride home afterwards, which helps immensely when I'm overbooked.
Tuesday afternoon I've taken off work, bc I go back to the ob/gyn for another check, since my summer colposcopy issue, and then we all have dental appointments when the kids get out of school. Sometime inbetween, we have to go apply for Bela's passport, and I have to pick up my last few textbooks for classes and a parking sticker.
Thursday I have parent-teacher conferences: with Bela's teachers at 7am, and with Jhonen's teacher at 5:40pm, and then I have baptism class for Jhonen at 7pm (which is two Thursday nights in a row). The kids are out of school Thurs, Fri and Monday.
Jhonen is to be baptized on February 6th. Kim will be flying in from Nola for that weekend to be his Godmother, and we're trying to get James here to be his Godfather. It will be fantastic to see Kim, as it's been about two years(?) since I was in Nola for Mardi Gras.
I've been arguing back and forth with the ex for a month now trying to get him to sign an authorization to get Bela a passport. I plan to take her with me to Paris in March. How cool would it be to turn 13 years old in Paris? Her dad is being difficult about it, though, on the grounds of not wanting me to get my way. Meh. Will be fantastic if I can get the signed paper this weekend.
I've been watching LOST through my holiday break, and a few episodes of the BBC show SKINS. I'd never watched LOST, except a few scenes when my mom was watching it, but I thought it was interesting that they used so much mythology and names of philosophers and stuff, and I have Netflix where I can steam episodes... so... it has kept my attention, which is saying something. Saw 2012 with Carmen during the Xmess break, which was suspenseful and kept me tense for 2.5 hours. Great effects.
Christmas went well, though I missed James. The upside is that I may see him very soon, and then for a week or more in March, and then again in April for Easter Vigil (when Bela will be baptized). The kids racked up all kinds of gifts. Bela got an iTouch, which means the iPod that used to be mine, and then hers, now belongs to Jhonen. He's pretty stoked about it. I got a copy of The Decameron, a lovely shawl, frankencense, and other lovely gifts from James. Carmen gave me the latest season of Weeds on DVD and a gift card for 711 (coffeeeeee!). Work gave me a gift card, which I used to purchase a subscription to the Magnificat, and I used some rewards points to subscribe to Biblical Archaeology Review, National Geographic Traveler, and Smithsonian magazines. My dad sent money, but it all went to textbooks for school, and my grandparental money went to the kids. The only thing I really wanted and didn't get was a good loofah, but I'm going to go hunt one down this weekend. :o) Hello exfoliation!
The State of Colorado is just waiting for one more document from my divorce in Florida to push the child support through their office, and then it can be modified. Orange County Clerk's office called me yesterday to process the payment to send out that last document, so I should have it within a week. I got a letter from the Denver Tribunal that my annulment paperwork has been received in their office and is being reviewed, although annulment cases can take up to a year or more to complete, so I'm trying not to think about it. It was a 30 page typed single spaced question and answer packet that I finished and sent.
I've been doing a lot of books on cd at work, since I rarely find time to read anymore, and I have a reserved pile to pick up from the library tomorrow. These include Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Camus' The Stranger, Ovid's Metamorphoses, a travel memoire entitled When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home, Adam Gopnik's Paris to the Moon, and Elizabeth Gilbert's Pilgrims. I also picked up a copy of Elizabeth Gilbert's Committed, which is her follow-up to Eat Pray Love (which is now being made into a movie with Julia Roberts). In Committed, Chapter 2, she discusses the anthropology of marriage, from ethnography done in Vietnam. Bela, btw, is currently studying Vietnam for a school project. Anyway, Gilbert denies that she's an anthropologist, but basically it's the beginning of an anthropological study, so I found it interesting.
Got an email that there will be a guest speaker at UCD week after next on the topic of Companionable Objects and the Anthropology of Hurt Things, which makes me want to ditch work early and go. I'm going to try. :o)
I start back to school in a week and a half. :D I was asked to grant permission to publish some of my projects from last semester's art class on the UCD department website, including my multimedia project on Edvard Munch, which was pretty cool. I'm looking forward to my new batch of classes, and find it funny that my French Culture class is using a text called Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French. Should be fun!
It's been freezing here! I guess it's freezing pretty much everywhere. Even Florida has iguanas falling out of trees as they freeze and immobilize and lose their grip. Sheesh. Makes for a funny video, though! Here, it's been in the negative temps and snowing this past week, but we're expecting 50's this weekend, so that's a nice break.
Spent last night at the Cub Scout Leader's house building a Derby Car with Jhonen. We were sweetly invited to dinner over there and a private build in the garage, bc we hadn't really planned to participate (didn't have the materials and came into the Scouts late so we were out of the loop until the last minute) but Dean insisted. It was fun. The race is tomorrow in the school cafeteria (since All Souls sponsors the pack). Jhonen's dad is taking him (since they're with him every Fri night through Sat 6pm), but I'm gonna go watch too.
RCIA starts back up on Sunday, after a two week hiatus. Jhonen will be involved in a presentation with his 2nd grade class at Mass, for their upcoming First Reconciliation & First Communion.
Monday night I'll be attending Safe Environment Training at the Church so I can volunteer with the kids, while Bela and Jhonen go to the LeManske's for a Cub Scout meeting. Worked out with Dean to give them a ride home afterwards, which helps immensely when I'm overbooked.
Tuesday afternoon I've taken off work, bc I go back to the ob/gyn for another check, since my summer colposcopy issue, and then we all have dental appointments when the kids get out of school. Sometime inbetween, we have to go apply for Bela's passport, and I have to pick up my last few textbooks for classes and a parking sticker.
Thursday I have parent-teacher conferences: with Bela's teachers at 7am, and with Jhonen's teacher at 5:40pm, and then I have baptism class for Jhonen at 7pm (which is two Thursday nights in a row). The kids are out of school Thurs, Fri and Monday.
Jhonen is to be baptized on February 6th. Kim will be flying in from Nola for that weekend to be his Godmother, and we're trying to get James here to be his Godfather. It will be fantastic to see Kim, as it's been about two years(?) since I was in Nola for Mardi Gras.
I've been arguing back and forth with the ex for a month now trying to get him to sign an authorization to get Bela a passport. I plan to take her with me to Paris in March. How cool would it be to turn 13 years old in Paris? Her dad is being difficult about it, though, on the grounds of not wanting me to get my way. Meh. Will be fantastic if I can get the signed paper this weekend.
I've been watching LOST through my holiday break, and a few episodes of the BBC show SKINS. I'd never watched LOST, except a few scenes when my mom was watching it, but I thought it was interesting that they used so much mythology and names of philosophers and stuff, and I have Netflix where I can steam episodes... so... it has kept my attention, which is saying something. Saw 2012 with Carmen during the Xmess break, which was suspenseful and kept me tense for 2.5 hours. Great effects.
Christmas went well, though I missed James. The upside is that I may see him very soon, and then for a week or more in March, and then again in April for Easter Vigil (when Bela will be baptized). The kids racked up all kinds of gifts. Bela got an iTouch, which means the iPod that used to be mine, and then hers, now belongs to Jhonen. He's pretty stoked about it. I got a copy of The Decameron, a lovely shawl, frankencense, and other lovely gifts from James. Carmen gave me the latest season of Weeds on DVD and a gift card for 711 (coffeeeeee!). Work gave me a gift card, which I used to purchase a subscription to the Magnificat, and I used some rewards points to subscribe to Biblical Archaeology Review, National Geographic Traveler, and Smithsonian magazines. My dad sent money, but it all went to textbooks for school, and my grandparental money went to the kids. The only thing I really wanted and didn't get was a good loofah, but I'm going to go hunt one down this weekend. :o) Hello exfoliation!
The State of Colorado is just waiting for one more document from my divorce in Florida to push the child support through their office, and then it can be modified. Orange County Clerk's office called me yesterday to process the payment to send out that last document, so I should have it within a week. I got a letter from the Denver Tribunal that my annulment paperwork has been received in their office and is being reviewed, although annulment cases can take up to a year or more to complete, so I'm trying not to think about it. It was a 30 page typed single spaced question and answer packet that I finished and sent.
I've been doing a lot of books on cd at work, since I rarely find time to read anymore, and I have a reserved pile to pick up from the library tomorrow. These include Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Camus' The Stranger, Ovid's Metamorphoses, a travel memoire entitled When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home, Adam Gopnik's Paris to the Moon, and Elizabeth Gilbert's Pilgrims. I also picked up a copy of Elizabeth Gilbert's Committed, which is her follow-up to Eat Pray Love (which is now being made into a movie with Julia Roberts). In Committed, Chapter 2, she discusses the anthropology of marriage, from ethnography done in Vietnam. Bela, btw, is currently studying Vietnam for a school project. Anyway, Gilbert denies that she's an anthropologist, but basically it's the beginning of an anthropological study, so I found it interesting.
Got an email that there will be a guest speaker at UCD week after next on the topic of Companionable Objects and the Anthropology of Hurt Things, which makes me want to ditch work early and go. I'm going to try. :o)