Sunday, Every Sunday

Hello. It's me again. Starting now, August 3, 2008, I will be posting EVERY Sunday. That's right. I'm committing right here, right now to post and update every Sunday. Alright--I actually made the decision earlier today, but that's not really important now is it.
SO, for those who have been checking on a regular basis and were becoming so weary and disappointed to only find dust collecting on this internet portal, a bridge is being extended to you. So every Sunday, if that is a good day for you to check in on me, (which reminds me I have phone call to return from one of my three lovely grandmothers) you will be delighted to know that whether sunny or rainy, I will sit with my computer and send some sort of electric pulse through the internet that shares with you something of my life. Even through the business of busyness.
Sound good?

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A few highlights from the last few months:

A college graduation (sadly, not mine.....yet)
***When you're president of SGA, you get to sit on the platform.
And a post-graduation gathering.
***I'm standing between the SGA president and vice-president.My grandparents come to visit:
***Walked through Hezekiah Alexander's homesite

Grandpa made me pose with this statue....I'm not even sure it's Hezekiah
***He wanted me to lean into a pretend kiss then proceed to tell the fam of my "new love" (or something) Grandma supported me by rolling her eyes with a chuckled "Oh geeze" or similar remark. A great time, none-the-less and for the record, I let him use my camera to take the photo since his battery died.

One day, we drove to Asheville to visit The Biltmore.
Our tour finished with a visit to the estate Winery.
***Grandma and I missed the wine tasting, but enjoyed a bit of time together while waiting patiently;)That's it for now though I have much more to cover and pictures to post.
Maybe tomorrow?
If not, see you next SUNDAY!

Laundry, bed-making, reading, coffee drinking: a typical Saturday spent. Despite the months between posts, there isn't much to report.
-I have lived here almost a whole year but how quickly it has gone by! The whirlwind will sweep through once again in about a month and another year will soon be completed.
-The garden has given me cherry tomatoes, zuchinni, cucmbers,banana peppers, bell peppers, jalapeños, and green beans. Squash, eggplant, and a few other varieties of tomato will soon be harvested. Cool season crops will be planted soon too.

another semester over

4.0


Hooray!!!!

some discoveries

1. want to offer brownies to your roommates but insure a large portion for yourself? bake walnuts into half the batch. ("oh, you don't like walnuts??")
2. create a list of things that you would like to accomplish outdoors for spring. wait. wait. wait. continue waiting, and mother nature will do it for you. that pesky rusted metal shed you want to tear down? done, one windy-windy-windy day later.
3. i do not want to teach art (or anything else) to middle schoolers. ever. (formally). i never planned to teach this age group, but while i'm at it, i should add elementary and secondary ed.
4. when you saute onions and garlic, it smells good. when your roommate sautes onions and garlic it makes you want to open every window and door in the house, even if its freezing outside and there is a storm of sand blowing through your neighborhood. (not to mention kick him in the shin for creating such a horrible odor)

That's about all for updates. I'm slowly looking forward in thinking about summer jobs, and maybe fall for that matter. We're done in early June, and I have at least one lead for summer that involves travel, leading, biking, and getting paid. I'll have more details later and will definitely share once I have them.

Oh, and though we don't have snow and ice and all that freezing, it's still cold sometimes, and a 35 degree day does feel cold after a 65 degree day. (really cold)

And as many are, I'm impatiently awaiting spring. I started a few herbs inside and think about the garden that I will plant this spring, although this potential summer job will get in the way of tending to such a garden.
OH! I now have tomatoes growing too...a tomato I purchased in the produce department decided to sprout its seeds while they were still inside the tomato. I was weirded out and fascinated at the same time. I first researched what the heck was going on, then transplanted six tiny sprouts to one of the trays I already have seedlings in. We'll see what happens. I found a picture that looks like mine did, only my tomato was red.

hitting the nail on the head

Check this out.

How do people come up with this stuff??

Photo update

Click here to see some photos that have been taken over the last few months. I have found something that will make posting photos in the future much simpler...hooray!
But since I had already started on this method, it will just have to wait until next time.

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new year, new blog

I've been horrible these past two weeks--horrible in my not-so-timely replies to e-mail messages, voice mail messages, and I'm on break from work and school. And just like the laundry, not writing a little bit here and there has left me with many weeks and three whole holidays to catch up on.

I'm not sure where to start, so here are some pictures that have been taken over that last 4 months:

-The mural in its beginning stages


-the front doors of the school are perpendicular and to the right of the mural. basically, it's the first thing you see when you walk in...-and these are most of the students that worked on it. we started with 10, and each week the number would fluctuate. (mural still incomplete in this photo...)



-this one is at hart witzen gallery in the noda neighborhood. it is where we had our 'WOW'--the finale of a Citizen Schools semester where students show what they have learned. we had a great turnout.



-this one is probably my favorite.


I still don't have a photo of the 'completed' mural...

And now it's nearly 2am. Loading, positioning, and captioning photos is taking much longer than expected so I'm going to try and find another means to post some pictures.
Staying up late and getting up late is a bad habit to develop on break. School starts next week!