Life is better. I may have a class I can take that sounds spiff. You learn to date local buildings based on the materials of their internal structures. XD Exciting! So... I've written to the prof, and we'll see if that pans out... If it does, I've got to decide what goes.

Another question for those who have studied abroad ( Read more... )

Wow. Busy week. I must say, I feel like I accomplished a ton. Mostly for the bronzeware class. Plenty to do this weekend as well, but nothing actually due Monday or Tuesday. Nice. The people at the museum all know me now. It's kind of amusing. Networking is a strange thing. If nothing else, this bronzeware exhibit has made me research a ( Read more... )

Freitag! Ran into my drill instructor today. He's fun to talk to ( Read more... )

Oh. These are some links about the fire.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cookiejak/sets/297615/

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=3294311

I lived on the top floor. Crazy.

Hey everyone! Ok, anyway, I'm feeling much better. Anybody who wants the story can read below... Sorry that I haven't gotten in touch with anyone. It's been...rather busy ( Read more... )

My dorm burned down. All of my material goods = toast. All the clothing I have left is 8th grade stuff from home, and I don't have any of my sketches left from as far back as middle school.

My professors still want me to take exams and write papers.

Lighting project deserved, in the prof's words, "a gold star." Which is good, since it didn't really go right... First off, the blue that I had been using was missing, so I had to pick a new blue without ever having seen it--even in the light lab. Second, they fixed the mannequin, so it wouldn't lay the way it was supposed to at all. So... ( Read more... )

One of my profs left for South Africa without telling us. The TA is teaching for the rest of the year. Oddness ( Read more... )

They switched the heating to air conditioning today in my room! This is a minor miracle that will make everything about life at least a little better. One of my roomie's friends has a thermometer in her room, and it said it was 83 degrees inside. So yes. Air conditioning = love.