Laura visited this week and it was, of course, awesome. She got sick, but we still did all sorts of stuff. We went mountain biking, got caught in a rainstorm. Studied a little, quietly on the porch. Cooked. Played music. Laura went to xing-yi and apparently rocked the house. She got sick(er) on wednesday and slept for an absurd amount of ( Read more... )

From my response to an essay by Douglas & Hargadon, "The Pleasures of Immersion and Interaction
(these responses are unstructured freewrites, but i usually end up with complete paragraphs anyway. Most of the time.) "...To step back a minute, the attempt to understand what makes people ENJOY reading texts is a good one, and one that is, i think, ( Read more... )

The things i got done over break and the things i needed to get done over break hold little in resemblance to each other ( Read more... )

i'll get back in the habit of using this. I've been slacking on using words to keep track of how i'm doing -- the stimulation has all been from the outside world in, rather than accurately knowing what the inside is. So, words. I've been surrounded by them everywhere, sure, and students even ask me for advice on using them, but the solitary- ( Read more... )

i'm back from skiing.
Skiing rocks.
I hurt.
Now to party.

Some days just aren't your day. 1-3. After the first game, my only win, turned into a gigantic moral dilemma, i couldn't focus. Everybody else at VT did great, though, with a couple 2nd place finishes, and everyone did well enough to win a pumpkin. Oddi donated his to me, and i'm going to see if i can't make some pumpkin pie from real pumpkin ( Read more... )

big homeworks due tomorrow and monday, paper tomorrow too, don't forget the big project due wedsnesday and a performance tuesday night ( Read more... )

funny thing happened today. In the weekly writing center meeting (where today we just chatted for about 15 minutes and then broke to go carve pumpkins), the professor called me aside before we started and asked me how things went this morning. Turns out, one of the students said that my comments on his paper "took away all his self confidence and ( Read more... )

the past few weeks have been filled with curry, most of it edible. Life has fallen into its groove here, or at least as much of a groove as i have: monday and wedsnesday are filled with work, tuesday and thursday i work at the writing center, have one class, and then get to put in a few more hours before i go home and study go, or on thursdays, ( Read more... )

between my Theory of Computation class and my Literature for Children and Computer graphics classes, i went home and baked cookies downstairs with Jeanette, while she baked a blueberry pie. The cookies turned out fantastic, too (Chocolate chip oatmeal). I really, really like being off campus -- it was a little overdue. I got my job at the ( Read more... )