8/05/2004

 

Long time no blog

What can I say, summer break for me tends to wind up being summer break from EVERYTHING. So, the goings-on for the last month...

The Adoption. Info about that on our China Dreaming blog.

The trip out West. My grandpa and I flew to Denver and spent the next week and a half driving 2000 miles. We went up to South Dakota to Deadwood, saw Mt. Rushmore and Crazy Horse, drove across part of Montana to revisit an old haunt or two, down through Yellowstone (incredible), and across Wyoming. It was a very nice trip. Pics here.

The house. We have new carpet and paint in the living/dining rooms, new paint and tile in the front hall, new linoleum in the kitchen and laundry room, a new dishwasher, a new pantry cabinet...Wow! I feel like I live in a new house! It's wonderful and it looks great. We've still got plenty of loose ends to finish up, but hopefully they won't take too long...then we'll start on Emma's room.

The recital. We are doing a big clogging show/recital this Sunday. Lately that's meant two practices a week for me plus doing my part on the costumes (which would be much larger if I could actually sew.) We have no clue how many people to expect but it is by far the largest performance we've ever done - around 25 dancers, 23 songs, and several costumes for the older girls (7 or 8 for me and Ginger!) So hopefully there will be a good crowd to make it worth it! Ginger and a couple of other people in the group have put in tons and tons of hours to make all the costumes (and they're not done!) Wish us luck!

And finally, back to work. This is "get ready week". Next week is Faculty Workshop (for which I am giving a library presentation, which I didn't know about until I got the printed workshop schedule), next Friday and Saturday are freshman advising, the following Monday is Tour Day, and Tuesday classes start. I am way ahead of myself - I already have my syllabus mostly done! Now I just have to figure out what to do the first week of class...the subject matter is school history, and yesterday I came up wtih a kickass (if I do say so myself!) idea about making a set of Go Fish cards with photos of important people in Pfeiffer history, old buildings, etc. so the students can have fun playing a card game while they learn. But of course I came up with this idea too late for this year, so it will have to wait. Of course, next year I probably won't be teaching (unless Emma comes earlier than expected and I'm totally back in my normal routine by then.) But the other seminar profs may want to use the card game.

And on that note, I will actually GET back to work. :)

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