Actually I have no idea how many semesters I have left to go. Part of that depends on how many courses I’m going to have to take. Guess I’ll need to work on figuring that out.
Wrote the final exam in my Biomaterials class today. Think it went ok, although as usual, most of the exam ended up covering material that I didn’t study quite as much of or quite as thoroughly as the rest.
There end up being more on biomaterial and tissue interactions than I was expecting. I was still able to pull out some answers out of my brain, although not in quite as much detail as I might have liked.
So, first semester of being back in school has been interesting. Fitting it into the work schedule hasn’t been too bad thanks to some work flexibility, but has still been challenging.
The most difficult thing so far has been getting back into the habit of actually remembering the details of the material I’m studying rather than just remembering the general stuff and where to find the details if I need them later.
The down side of going back to school while you’re working is that when school’s out, there’s still work. It only gets a little less busy.
Well, gotta pay for school somehow I suppose.
Where’s the spell check?!
While writing down some notes studying for my Biomaterials final, I couldn’t think of how to spell a word. I wrote what I thought it should be and waited to see the squiggly line to tell me that I spelled it wrong.
On my pad of paper.
I think I’ve been spending too much time on computers.
Dinner with friends
Brought friends with me to Friday Night Dinner at Ted’s Butcherblock and had a pretty good time with Yaenette, Theresa, Clay and Kenny this evening. During dessert, Clay and Kenny got distracted showing off their cell phones to an older couple next to us, Theresa and Yaenette started talking horses, and me, I just happily polished off my dessert. This week’s meal was pretty good, especially the shrimp. I don’t think it was quite as knock-your-socks-off good as some of the previous dinners, but still pretty tasty.
Caper, Olive Oil & Sweet Lemon Marinated Grilled Shrimp / Roasted Root Vegetable & Baby Eggplant Caponata with a Fennel-Tarragon Pepperonata Sauce / Parmesan Creamed Rice / Orange Blossom Pistachio Cake with vanilla Thyme Crema
Melody’s Happy Tail
Yay, another happy story from one of my former foster dogs, Mel.
Dear friends at Wild Heir,
It has been a year now since we adopted Melody from your group, and wanted to let you know we are doing great!! She has really come out of her shyness for the most part, and is a joy to our family!! Enclosed are pictures, one at Sullivan’s island, on the beach, which she loves, and the other with my son’s dog, Izzie. They are best friends, love to wrestle and play tug of war as you can see.
We live in VA, but out son lives in Charleston, so we were there to visit last week. I wish you could see her in person, you would be so proud, as we are!!
Thanks for taking care of labs like Mel, and providing a place for families like ours to find a wonderful dog. Keep up the good work!
Help-Portrait Charleston: Help wanted
Had a great first meeting this evening with other people interested in participating in the Charleston Help-Portrait project. There were many things discussed, including the kind of gear to bring, number of people we’d need, work flow and most importantly, how we’re going to print the photos.
Printing the photos is where we’re going to need a lot of help. We’ve got printers, so we need the supplies like ink cartridges and photo paper to print on. The group decided on printing 5″x7″ photos, but if we could manage it I think it would be really great if we could give people 8″x10″ photos. Whether we can do that or not will depend on the supplies we get.
The most important thing though is that we be able to give people their photos soon after their pictures is taken. To do that, we need the supplies: ink cartridges, photo paper and folders or envelopes to put the photos in. We could also use backdrops and one or two of those big 10×10′ tents to keep the sun/rain off us. If you have hair/makeup skills, we can use those too! If you know anybody that can help us out with this, drop me a line or better yet, join the group and drop everybody a line.
This video from a Help-Portrait event in Dallas a few weeks ago is a great example of what it’s all about.
Help Portrait (Dallas) from jordan bellamy on Vimeo.
Here’s another video from a test event in Nashville. This is the kind of thing we want to accomplish here in Charleston.