This weekend I spent nine hours in Intensive Figure Drawing class. I found out where to go in Houston for studio time. I attempted to get a new USB cord for my camera, which was a colossal failure. Doh. I read aloud from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy over lunch. I didn't get enough sleep or enough work done. I took photos of photos but ( Read more... )

Yesterday I called Donna from my car and she said, "Why does it sound like you're listening to Martin Luther King, Jr or something?" And I said, "Because I am listening to the speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr on CD." And she said, "Oh, I'll have to borrow that for next year. I just did a unit on Martin Luther King ( Read more... )

This entry is being brought to you from Ginevra, while I sit on my bed. With Hillary and Peter's help, I got the wireless working. Yay!
Now back to writing out my paper correspondence.

I love Ginevra and her super excellent wireless! Here I am sitting in the courtyard of the Rice Memorial Center, listening to really extremely loud birdsong and the occasional carillon recording from the campanile tower just across the way. In a couple of hours my storytelling class will meet a little ways across campus, but for now I'm enjoying ( Read more... )

It's been raining for days. The sky is gray, the wind is cold, and the ground is overflowing. Yuck. This also means drivers are way more obnoxious. I spent a lot of time in traffic with idiots. Of course, I usually do that - especially idiots who don't seem to understand the width of the car in relation to the width of their lane. Get inside ( Read more... )

Mom continues her toil over the quilt square, and today we toiled (well, she toiled, I ate) to Little Miss Sunshine. Holy Effin' God, that was a funny movie!! Absolutely brilliant.
And I have recommended Mom watch Saved!, but we have to watch from the beginning or it won't be as funny. So far we keep missing the first half hour ( Read more... )

Things have been happening. I've been reading online again, shame on me. Not getting things done as I should. But, I've also been busy ( Read more... )

I am looking to get an external hard drive to backup and store some of my excessive files - music, photos, and the like, as well as acting as a possible backup to Roxanne. (With an eye to eventually transferring files to a new computer, as Roxanne is awesome, but has reached her upgrade capacity ( Read more... )

After installing updates to various drivers and deleting detritus from Roxanne, I’m hoping she’ll run a bit more smoothly. I still have to try adding the rest of the peripherals one by one, but I’ll wait a bit ( Read more... )