Ominous Thunder part deux

So the campus is now under a thick layer of haze and water. Lovely. I won't complain though, because I know we not only need the water, but also the haze. Why the haze... because it brings us back to the premordial dawn of time when haze floated over the misty seas.

Okay, so I really don't dig the haze, but I can't make it go away. I'll deal.

Saw Batman Begins last night. Fantastic. No spoilers here, just know that it manhandles all other Batman films I've seen.

Nothing more to say, just a simple post to keep myself from going mad with boredom. I bought a course packet today and figured it would take three hours to read. It took one. Leaving two hours of looking at rain and haze and listening to thunder.

Okay. Going off to count pixels now.

A+

Andrew

Ominous Thunder

Did I spell ominous correctly? I'm never sure. My English seems to be getting worse as does my French lately. I'm sure one or the other will soon turn around or maybe both if I'm lucky, but at the moment, I feel like a Man without a Language. It sounds like a movie title. Perhaps one day it will be.

So, updates... updates...

Oh yeah, the title of this blog post. Ominous (sp?) thunder has been... um... thundering outside of my office window for the last hour. At first I really thought the thunder was just the noise of construction equipment. For some reason, I don't recall hearing thunder like this before. Very mechanical sounding. Just another reason I sometimes believe that I live in The Truman Show. Fake sounding nature. So... what to say, what to say... nothing much to say actually. I'm just here at the office about two hours early because Amanda and I took my car in to have it fixed. The front passenger side tie-rod came off last week and we've just gotten around to having it repaired today. It won't be repaired today, of course, they said that it would probably be a week or so. Lucky for both of us that I have an extended warranty policy on my car so at least the parts will be covered. If the labor isn't covered, I'm hearing the cash registers ringing for about 400 dollars. I'll probably get new front tires and an alignment as well, because that's most likely what caused the problem in the first place. Ah, cars. What would my life be like without you.

Cheaper.
Easier.

Did I mention Cheaper?

Okay, gotta go waste time looking up ways to sell my body parts before the Estimate comes in.

A+

Andrew

Um... Yes... I have returned

From where? I'm actually not too sure about where I'm coming back from... obscurity sounds like a reasonable excuse for not having written anything for well over two weeks... or just about two weeks... or something approximating two weeks...

I have started the second week of my summer class schedule, the first week being a sort of practice week during which I learned how to use Dreamweaver software and the accompanying Fireworks MX suite. It's been a lot of fun, and I didn't even have to learn HTML or XML or AFL or NFL or whatever that coding junk is called. I have a sweeeeeet webpage with lots of cool buttons and rollovers, all stuff I made myself. I am working with a two other French students and our website is devoted to French Media. I will at some point post one of our buttons on the site so that you can see exactly how it works, I have not the access to the code at the moment, but soon I will. Then you can read your funny text till the cows come home.

Okay, I realize that this post was short, and will remain obscure, but that's just fine. You've been kept at bay with a few short paragraphs. Enough already!

A+

Andrew

Breathing again...

Finally a little time to post something.

I'm officially done with all the crap I had to do for my own classes.
12 page paper on Notre Dame de Paris, check
essay and translation exam, check
culture exam, check
exam for lit class, check

Giving my personal exam, check

grading my personal exam... well, I'm almost done. I guess that grading could be worse. I wrote a shorter exam for them than I had planned, and that does two things for me, makes my grading time a bit shorter, gives me more time to waste on the internet writing blogs.

Grading sequence commencing, sigh, I guess check.

A+ (but for my students probably somewhere in the area of C-)

Andrew