on track?

Got my laptop back from the computer place, seems like they cleaned it up real good. So I am going through the GLO records looking for prairies. Man this is dull work. The college boys next door are moving out and I am watching them load a trailer through my bedroom window as I "work". Got a very nice email from E today which made me feel good about the future. Spending too much time on Facebook, which makes me feel guilty and stupid. Also have a sore throat and cough and body aches. But the lady still likes me and my kids are happy.

Design project

I have decided to put a copy of my Grad Studio 1 design project up here for safe keeping. The assignment was to trace a drop of water after it leaves your rooftop and as it goes to the sea, and then back. To recall what you experienced living in your home town watershed, what you liked about it, what memories were pleasing to you and then consider what improvements can be made to the watershed to preserve or enhance those good elements. It wasn't a design problem so much as an exercise in interpreting and showing an understanding of one's home town watershed.

Sunday morning

Sad news yesterday, one of the dogs we are looking after around the corner suddenly became paralyzed and had to be put down. The owners are in Colorado. S spent the whole morning in the ER at the vet school. I cleaned the house a little. Balmy spring like weather with all the windows and doors open. I need to get to work on my prairie research, but it's hard with the kids out of school. My laptop is supposed to be fixed tomorrow.

a fog in your nog

A light rain tonight, what the Brits would call a heavy fog. S cooked a lovely meal of roast, rice and veggies. All the toys santa brought were gravity or brain-powered, which was nice. Played with marbles a lot today. Just back from checking on the neighbor dogs, they seem fine. Am enjoying some bourbon a friend gave me called Buffalo Trace. Also enjoyed a movie mom sent called "Howl's Moving Castle." I am living the good life. Wish you were too you sorry dog.

Adeste

Lots of shopping today and yesterday, not sure why, mostly to keep the economy alive. All Christmas related, more or less. We plan to cook an eye of round roast. New one for us. Sausage cassarole in the morning. Mimosas. That the plan. The new tub faucet arrived today, a nice project for tomorrow. The weather will be warm again. I am really happy with the picture of the sopping wet kids and mommies I took with my phone last saturday. One mom mildly annoyed, another bemused and resigned. sawyer saw it today and said "I look blue. Why am I blue?" I said because you are playing in a fountain five days before Christmas! I need to be working on my prairie research but it is much more fun and perhaps in the long run more beneficial to humanity for me to team up with my little boys and shoot at stuffed animals with foam darts.

Tuscaloosa

Just returned from a fun weekend visiting friends in Tucsaloosa, Abalama. Nice place. It was a warm day Saturday and we visited this plaza with fountain on the campus of the University of Abalama. Here the kids frolic not five days before Christmas. The warm weather is over, though, we are back in Starksville and are expecting a low 19. I did not have my camera with me and had to take these with my phone.

Jolly day

Been stayin up to the wee hours and getting up early working on my grad studio project. Now it is done and I am just a little tired. Another student is driving the projects to Hattiesburg, where it is snowing.

pretty...pretty...

Final project for design one coming along but still a long way to go. Here is a litttle piece of it I did today with GIS. This is where I used to play.

Hammered

Reasonable progress today. Cub scouts wrappen presents for the angel tree. Treated myself to the first three episodes of the fourth season of the Wire last night. You earned that buck like a motherfucker.

Hey where'd everybody go?

Upstairs in the studio working on my design project. Sure is quiet. I once heard somebody say: I have created a fool.

jumbo mumbo

Finished my watershed management paper, but was deterred greatly all afternoon by a trojan virus in my laptop. Zapper had it worse, getting two front teeth pulled at a surprise trip to the dentist. The orthodontist said they had to go, should have gone by now. Now gotta take the laptop to the doctor.

here i come baby

I am starting to feel, as Bob said a while back "totally committed to major independence." Got an embryo of a thesis proposal conceived today. The despair is losing that palpable quality.