March 27, 2009
For the last week, in bits and pieces, when I have a few minutes here and there, I’ve been putting all my work up on my favorite photography site, of which I’m now a member. Members are allowed to basically have unlimited images posted to their account, so instead of having three measly images I now have a “gallery.” And within my gallery I’ve even got folders that catalog my work and allow visitors to view it as a slideshow and such.
March 25, 2009
I’m pleased to report that, so far anyway, the term is going swimmingly. Tons of work, but not so much that we can’t keep up easily. In fact, it looks like we’re getting ourselves a bit ahead, which is good because M’s out of town next week for a business trip and won’t have as much time to devote to studying.
March 24, 2009
This morning as I was dropping Zozer off at school, I had a very interesting conversation with one of her teachers, Ms. Marya.
March 22, 2009
Another instructor felt the need to point out to use the academic integrity rules of our university…although this time he was pretty cool about it. He waited until the first week’s posts and included his observations that our contributions are completely different both in nature and in context.
March 18, 2009
We’re less than a full week into our new term, and I’ve already identified The Most Annoying Classmate Ever. At least for the next nine weeks.
March 18, 2009
I was going to be selfish and keep this one to myself, but I love it so much I had to share it. It’s my favorite image from the weekend.
March 18, 2009
Last weekend was a good weekend for photography. We went to the art museum and saw a small exhibit on street photography (and by small I mean like 10 images, but worth visiting nonetheless). We went to the cemetary and visited my friend and photography inspiration Kevin (gone 17 years now). And we went to the park where I got to actually use my camera and make some great images of my beautiful daughter.
March 13, 2009
It’s the first day of school! M and I start our new term today, and even though I’m still tired from the last one and want grad school to be over already dammit, I get a little thrill on the first day of class. Everything is clean and fresh and I haven’t gotten pissed at the instructor or moronic classmates yet. (I’m ready to throw the Org Behavior prof from last term under the bus at this point…we’re a week out from the close of last term and he still hasn’t graded any of the work from the second half of the term, which of course means we don’t have our course grade yet either.)
March 12, 2009
Read an article yesterday about Generation X (my generation) taking a double whammy by being hit hard first during the dot com bubble burst and now the recession. Gen X is seeing the highest rate of unemployment right now when compared to the Boomers, Gen Y and the Millennials, and it’s hitting us worse than the others because we’re too old to move back in with mom and dad but not anywhere close to retirement. The article went on, however, to talk about the resiliency of Gen X, and the author interviewed some economists and social commentary pundits, one of whom said this:
March 11, 2009
