I've been to Hawaii and back. That was fun! Mom had no idea. Though, apparently at one point while they were there, she had said something along the lines of "wouldn't it be great if Beth just showed up?" and Dad thought she knew. She didn't! To pick me up, Dad took a "wrong turn" to try to find a restaurant he had heard about and just ended up in ( Read more... )

Trip out to West Virginia and to visit Amy was good and a lot of fun ( Read more... )

A year ago, I had a terrible time at PopCon, at least concerning what I actually went there to do. Promises weren't kept and the whole thing was just a major cluster. I, of course, said I wouldn't return. Then Nolan North said he was coming to PopCon and lord knows how much I love that man and with the non-guarantee that I'd be where I could meet ( Read more... )

Two weekends ago (the beginning of June) I was down in Cincinnati and surrounding areas for some good ol' Cincinnatian Arch learning. We went to the classic Kentucky spots on Friday, taking in the older formations in the arch. I learned lots of neat things and collected some pink bryozoan things ( Read more... )

Heeeeeeeeeeeey ( Read more... )

I took back my Earth History class. I decided that having to deal with lateness of presentations is making me resent them more and more each day, and I don't want that. I also figure that, after three presentations, if they haven't fixed their style by now, it's not going to improve with a fourth one. I've two students who need to do a third ( Read more... )

Oh, man, let me tell you about Sunday ( Read more... )

Oh, man, we are hitting the time of the school year when everyone starts to freak out. Test 2 for my intro class is tomorrow and once I get that graded, who knows what everyone will say/do. Particularly the ones that didn't do well on the first test, have talked to me, and know that they need to do well on this test if they want to continue on a ( Read more... )

Spring break has come and gone. I didn't exactly get all the things done in the apartment that I had initially planned, but I got all the things that NEEDED to be done done. So yay ( Read more... )

It's nice to be on break. It's especially nice that DST started while on break, which means I get a chance to get used to it before it really matters. Yay ( Read more... )