1) Three of the courses I am interested in taking next semester are already full.
2) My registration time isn’t until 1:45pm today, right about when I’ll be boarding an airplane. Who schedules registration the day before Thanksgiving??
3) My mom has flu so I have to stay at my grandparents house in order to avoid getting sick because I never got a flu shot.
I have never lived so far west within a time zone.
Today’s sunrises
This is the first place I have moved to where I have really noticed the difference, probably because of the huge difference between Chicago and Ann Arbor. It still feels like the day is starting 45 minutes early.
tags: annarbor, chicago, home, providence
Things I like about being home:
Things I dislike about being home:
Back in the day I used to spend my Saturday mornings at swim meets watching Ashleigh, Maurie and Maddie and the rest of the team and talking blurry action shots. 1 I even had a pool-themed layout for this weblog.
Although I clearly wasn’t destined to be a sports photographer, I loved going to those meets. They were more exciting to watch than the other sports I also tried to photograph (track, cross country, lacrosse, football) I got to hang around right next to the pool with the team and vaguely feel like I was part of a school-related activity.
All of this is to say that I thoroughly enjoyed watching Olympic swimming this week, the highlight being definitely Michael Phelps 8 gold medal quest. (Did you know he’s from Maryland? In an painfully sentimental way this makes me proud of my home state.) And I’d like to think that I appreciated it more because of all those Saturdays crouched on the floor at MAC and MLK in high school.
1 At one of my first swim meets an angry parent yelled at me for interfering with light that goes off to mark the start of a race. The camera I was using at the time didn’t even have a flash, but I still felt horrible, and once I got a new camera with a built-in flash it took me months before I felt comfortable using it.
tags: home, photography, swimming
Haven’t posted for awhile, but not because of laziness.
I went home last week. Hung out with Maurie and the Kathans, which was very very good. Should have taken more pictures.
I have been trying to learn as much as possible from my coworkers at ITG. In addition to the formal-ish PHP/MySQL lessons, I’m trying to pick up Illustrator and Flash while I’m at it. This is what I have made so far:
For the longest time I was really anti-Flash, because of accessibility issues. I guess I still am a bit — I still get frustrated too often when trying to navigate Flash-based sites. But for making animations, and even certain types of graphics, it is a pretty amazing piece of software. Clearly I have yet to master the semi-realistic-looking walking ostrich (it’s not so bad if you try not to focus on the legs), but what I have done so far only took about an hour, including a fair amount of trial and error, so I don’t feel that bad.
I also decided that I am going to move to Chicago at the end of the summer. I am excited, but also stressed out about moving my stuff, finding a place to live, getting a job, and making new friends. Even so, it feels good to have a plan.
Well, I finished that paper somehow and took my Statistics final. I still haven’t gotten a grade in Statistics.
I’ve been home for over a week now. It’s nice, even though I haven’t been doing much. Went shopping a bunch of times, went to a couple doctor’s appointments, ate a lot of food at Ma and Papi’s. On Friday night we went to see the Festival of Lights at the Mormon Temple. It was very beautiful but inside the Visitor’s Center although friendly Mormon women tried to convert us about every 10 minutes.
I also saw Juno with Mummy a few days ago, and as expected, liked it a lot.
Katie is visiting. She drove down yesterday. I think we might go downtown today.
Other than that I have been knitting and glued to C-SPAN Iowa caucus coverage. It’s an All-Politics Weekend.
tags: home