07/30/04 07:51 - ID#33418

Last Day

Today I'm finished with the workshop. It's been fun. At first I was nervous and freaked out but now that I'm in the swing of things the class is ending. The students have to make their final animations today. They catch on fast. Well, some of them are quicker than others but... They seem to have a pretty good grasp on the programs despite my disjointed, rambling, and often problematic demonstrations. This is my last day of waking up at 6:30 in the morning! Hurray!

Thanks for those tokens guys, they came in handy this week!

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Location: Buffalo, NY

07/28/04 04:46 - ID#33417

Arise from a Deep Sleep

They wanted to kill this woman. She was in a mansion. They caught her and put her in a bathroom but then everyone got distracted. She thought she could get away. She ran over the fences and over the grass. Then she was captured. She had a huge slit from her bottom rib to her left collar bone. Some tall blond German man was in front of her in a lab coat. He was looking at her talking. She was beautiful in his eyes with lipstick and everything but in reality half of the skin on the face was torn off and she didn't have a nose.

Then I was going out with Andy. I got embarrassed because of the nicotine stain on my shirt so Andy traded shirts with me. He put on my shirt and said "Eww I can feel the nicotine" I said, "You mean smell the nicotine" he said "No it's more like I'm feeling it."

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Location: Buffalo, NY

07/27/04 03:05 - ID#33416

TOps!

I ride my bike to Tops but if i had a car i'd go to Wegman's. They are both better that Walgreens but Tops would not let me write a check a few weeks ago becasue I don't have one of their special savings cards. That sucked.

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Words: 47
Location: Buffalo, NY

07/27/04 02:56 - ID#33415

day 2

it's getting better

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Location: Buffalo, NY

07/27/04 02:35 - ID#33414

math is hard

My first day teaching was somewhat of a disaster. I left my apartment at 7:20 AM taking my bike with me, just in case the shuttle bus wasn't running. Then I hopped on the train. When I got to S. Campus I wheeled my bike outside and I could see that people were waiting for the shuttle bus. Then I realized that I had left my bag on the train. So I flipped out, dropped my bike, and ran back down to the train as fast as I could but it had already taken off. I found a woman who worked there and she radioed and they found my bag safe on the train. I had to wait for it though so I ended up being 5 or 10 minutes late for the workshop.
Then I did the clown dance for the kids for four hours. I've gotta get together a structure for tomorrow. One of the things that I'm going to do is show them a few episodes of Sealab 2021 and pass out copies of this article

. Then we can have a little discussion on appropriation.
I've got to figure out a good exercise for them. I think I'll give them an assignment to work on so that I can go around and help people individually. It's difficult because the kids have different skill levels. I'll be happy when I'm teaching basic video, that way I can show lots of work and we can have lots of discussions and it wont just be me in the center of the room endlessly clicking and rambling.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

07/26/04 06:55 - ID#33413

last one

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Location: Buffalo, NY

07/26/04 12:53 - ID#33412

another one

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Location: Buffalo, NY

07/25/04 09:00 - ID#33411

late fear

I just woke up looked at the clock and freaked because it said 7:30. I thought it was the morning so I popped out of bed and ran into the living room turned to the TV to look at the news and Malcolm in the Middle was on and I realized that I'm safe. Jesus Christ! I got sunburned yesterday.

I was up till noon making a collage. This is the pattern and result.

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Words: 77
Location: Buffalo, NY

07/24/04 03:31 - ID#33410

malarkey

I'm planning on making a collage using around 100 or so of these girl scout patch things.

I also need to clean up and prepare for the workshop.
Good God Y'all!

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Words: 32
Location: Buffalo, NY

07/23/04 03:46 - ID#33409

third person dream

The king made an announcement to all the people in the city that he had put 3 million dollars in a building across the bridge and who ever got to it first could have it. All the people rushed to the bridge. The women had scarves hiding their hair.
There were thousands of people all rushing and crowed together on one small and long bridge. Then a storm came and the bridge collapsed. The destruction was terrible and many died.
The few who did make it to the other side were having trouble getting into the building. Their spirits were crushed because of the death friends and family. They milled around exterior of the building desperately seeking a way inside.
Inside of the building was one man with dirt and plants. The building was a greenhouse. The king had lied to the people. The man inside knew of the lie. He was nervous and antsy. He could hear the people outside. He got crazy and started to bang on the door but he was locked inside.
One woman on the other side of the building heard him and banged on the door on that side of the building. This door opened for the interior man and he let the woman inside. When she could see that there were no riches she despaired and told the man thousands had died. Then the man despaired as well.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

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