December 2008
Waiting to visit with Tony in St. Louis Starbucks.
Off to St. Louis Art Museum-printmaking show, yea! Then hot sauce from Trader Joe’s. Oh, and stop by art store. Perfect SL day.
Arrived in St. Charles to a house full of dogs with bad breath. Rereading the newspapers provides a little blocking action.
Back from Christmas Eve dinner with my family. Early to bed then off to the in-laws Christmas day. Get to listen to a lot of podcasts.
Merry Christmas to all. Good night.
Today I started reading Graphic Design: A New History. Leave it to me to read the instruction manual before the class starts ;-)
OK, so maybe I’ll stop reading a textbook and switch to Anathem. That should be a good read at the in-laws.
WatchPhotography tips from merlin for those who buy a camera.
merlin:
Seriously. Happy Holidays.
Like the man says. Have a good one, and see you next year.
Finally, what all typographers are looking for, a green font: http://www.ecofont.eu/ecofont_en.html
Nooo, I wanted to sleep in, but my body’s school clock kicked me out of bed at 5:30. The dog loves it-solid sheet of ice to slide around on.
Nothing like the threat of freezing rain to make me abandon chores I should be doing at school and zip home to Wamego. Uneventful 2hr drive.
Of course, there was a driveway full of snow waiting - as well as a very excited dog. Drive clear, dog walked, walk away from the computer.
Packing up to leave for Wamego. Will I be able to dodge the freezing rain?
Still at home. BU MacBook Pro, installing 10.5.6, catching up on tweets, reading feeds on Kindle. Back to school to wrap up semester soon.
Only the Typography final to grade and I’m finished with classes. All left after that is to clean up dept. paperwork, order supplies and….
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Read: Joseph Beuys-The Reader from MIT Press. Wear a felt suit and keep a cup of fat nearby.
Some days the students display more common sense than the faculty. I suppose it’s too late to change sides.
“Attention spans are short…life is long,” -Zerbina
Isolate and intensify.
Everything counts (and nothing counts).
A student asked me what 10 things she should have gotten out of my class. The other students gave her most of the answers.
Students brought doughnuts to last adv photo class. So, we ate donuts and watched artists from season 3 of PBS series Art:21.
Word of the day. (Roget's Thesaurus)
aperk:
Balustrade \BAL-uh-strayd; bal-uh-STRAYD, noun: a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling
Ooops, false alarm. Just had the backlight on my keyboard turned up too high so it looked like my fingertips were missing. Silly me.
just lost all fingertips in laptop mishap…must tweet before hospital trip…using nose on blackberry held by knees…can’t reach alt key