Friday, August 1, 2008

Mini Versions of Yourself


Check it out, you can make mini versions of yourself and use them as avatars/icons for AIM, etc. Just found the website yesterday. www.weeworld.com Plus you can pick clothes and accessories, as well as your hairstyle and stuff. Very cool!

Here's mini-me...

Monday, July 28, 2008

Books for Fall Courses

Oh! I forgot to mention! I'd like to give a great big THANK YOU to the Fall instructors for giving us the titles of the books that we need to order. Can't tell you how happy that made me. Yes, it's the simple things in life that tickle me pink.

I was very happy to be able to order the books and not have to worry about if they were going to arrive in time for the start of the term, etc. One less thing to stress about!

Thanks again!

I'm Done, I'm Done, I'm Done...

I actually did a little jig last night and sang "I'm Done, I'm Done, I'm Done..." to the horror stricken looks on my husband and children's faces. LOL Turned in my essay for LIS 2000 last night, which was my last assignment for both courses. Course, I still need to download the readings that I didn't get to read yet and watch last week's lecture, but the assignment portion of my courses is now complete!

My husband was particularly amused, until I pointed out that he is also taking a graduate level course this summer and how happy would he be when he's finally done with the assignments? He responded "happy", so I said "now multiply that by TWO, since I'm taking two courses on that level", then he finally understood. LOL

Oooooh....this means I'll have time to play Warcraft for a bit as well! My poor druid needs her epic flight form still, so I need to shuffle $2500 from my warlock over to her, so she has enough gold to get started on that line. I haven't played at all since this semester began, which my raid group was sad about, since I'm one of the main healers. Alas!

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Insanely Loud

Jeez, it's like the epi-center for chaos in this house! No matter what time I wake up (and I get up pretty early as it is), or where I go to get away from folks, peace and quiet escapes me!

No idea when I'm going to find time to write this paper as I need QUIET to do so, and there really isn't any of that to be had here. Since it's a little vacation town, even when we go somewhere it's nuts.

Usually everyone goes out to the beach after breakfast and stays there till at least lunchtime, so I thought today, I'd stay in and write while they enjoyed the sun and surf. However, there is a major storm blowing thru at the moment, and it's supposed to last for the next few hours. Even the weather is conspiring against me. *sigh*

Maybe if I duct tape all the children....and their parents.... (kidding) I'll just hope the weather clears up and try again this evening or tomorrow morning.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Dolphins!

Woke up this morning to the sight of a school of dolphins swimming along in the ocean. Very very cool!

Course, I could have done without the 3am wake up call from one of my nieces. She started screaming bloody murder and my husband found her wandering around in the living room terrified. Our best guess is that she woke up from a bad dream and came up here to find here parents, where usually there are at least 3-6 adults in this room at any given time, only everyone was asleep, which scared her even more. *sigh*

On the school side of things, I'm now finished with all of the books that I need for our paper that is due on Sunday, and I've amassed my bizillion quotes, so now I just need to find some "quiet time" to compile and write the paper. No idea when I'm going to find that time as even at 3am it is lively around here, as you can see.

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Blogging fom the beach

Wahoo! We made it to the beach! The drive on Friday wasn't soooo bad. We've been in worse traffic on other trips. We actually drove most of Friday and stayed overnight in Suffolk. Met up with two of my step-brothers and their families, so that was cool, then we all drove the rest of the way on Friday morning and met at Awful Arthur's for lunch. Course, then we waited forever to get into the house.

The house is really nice too! Typically they are furnished with the cheapo wicker furniture and such (as they have been the last few years), but this one has great hardwood floors, nice cushy couches and chairs, nice accents, etc. We lucked out and got a room on the 3rd floor, well away from all the babies that wake in the night. Whomever came up with "sleep like a baby" was a loon! Our kids are on the first floor, so far away, which they are enjoying. Given their ages, not a big deal.

The weather is lovely today, although it rained a lot yesterday. On the plus side, we got to see a rainbow over the ocean, which was totally cool.

Oh! I got "Digital Copyright" finished yesterday too, so one book left to complete before tackling the paper. Hard to do when here though. At least I'm the only one awake, so trying to get school stuff in.

Later!

Monday, July 14, 2008

Playing with PowerPoint

Today, I was playing around with PowerPoint and discovered how to embed videos in the slides, which was cool. My new discovery. LOL

Also watching Dr. Tomer play with Unix started bringing all that code back into my head, which is just freaky.

I have to say though, it's really great to meet everyone on campus and I'm having a lot of fun making those new connections. I think we have a really great bunch of people in this program and I don't think I've meet this many people in one place that I've had so much in common with in years, if ever!