2006-08-22 16:45:22
Here it is:
- a new post to the blog
- eliot is excited about something other than mechanical devices
- they finally started painting our house
- a new roof is scheduled to follow
One Morning in Maine is Eliot's favorite new book, and the story goes something like this: A girl named Sal, presumably a little older than Eliot, and her little sister live in Maine, near the coast. The girl has a loose tooth. She goes to the beach to help her dad dig for clams, where she encounters a hawk, loon, seal, and seagulls. She loses the tooth. They come home from the beach and are joined by little sister to venture across the bay to town. The guy at the general store gives them ice cream cones, and then they head home for "CLAM CHOWDER FOR LUNCH!" This is fantastic. (OK, so this is a grand simplification of the story. It's a 64 pages!)
Eliot and I walked to the beach yesterday, and got ice cream on the way home. And we were only a little distracted by the trains...
It's actually a little early to say that they are actually painting the house. However, they are gung-ho scraping it right now. The paint seems quite eminent. Finally.
And a new roof to follow? The painter says he's going to tear back part of our old, deteriorated roof to replace some of the woodwork. He says that this means that a new roof will be necessary, and the roofer guy has already been by to scope things out. Sounds good to me!
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2006-01-18 20:44:14
No baby yet. It could be any minute now. I start my new job as admissions webmaster tomorrow. Studies are consuming any remaining moments after eating, sleeping, walking, kissing, working, listening and psalmodizing. It makes me happy. The postcard I sent says "wish you were here."
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2005-11-23 12:39:02
It's been over three years since I graduated from
CSI, and I will finally be returning to school to finish up an undergrad degree at
WWU. It's been good to be away from school, and it will be good to go back.
This time around I'm not going to be studying physics, as I once intended. I realized that while physics is exciting and prone to breed intellectual arrogance, I don't want to be stuck in a lab or in front of a computer indefinately. Enter
Huxley College.
Huxley College at WWU offers a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science, which sounds like a much better fit for one who would like the opportunity to be a scientist guy who works outside a bit more often than not. I hope to concentrate on terrestrial ecology and
GIS. However, I'm not nearly as singleminded about this as I let on -- it will be a miracle if I graduate without seventy-two minors in esoteric subjects.
I've completed all the prepratory coursework required by Huxley, with the exception of a biology sequence which I will begin in January. All told, Winter Quarter I'll be taking: Biology 204, Linguistics 201, and Fairhaven 332 (northwest mycology, i.e. mushroom field science). Fun!
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