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Jun. 24th, 2015 12:16 pmAs much as I hate to admit it, I think I have to let the medical profession back at my shoulders and ask for an actual diagnostic test. "If it hurts, don't do that" isn't cutting it. I want somebody to be able to tell me what exactly is going on so I know what I can do that will actually help. (This rant brought to you by the fact that I can't zip my favorite dress more than halfway, and I used to be able to do the whole thing with minimal gymnastics.)
And now for something completely different...we missed out on the thunderstorms last night, but the sunset was absolutely incredible. Between the cloud show and the post-storm light quality, it looked like one of those landscape paintings that makes you think the artist went completely overboard. Pink and beige clouds and a shade of blue sky you only see after a storm when the light is a very particular color. I didn't take any pictures because I couldn't do it justice. But it goes right up there with the completely pink sunset I saw one summer in Noank (the ocean was pink too), and the lemon yellow and neon orange post-thunderstorm sunset I saw in Brighton years ago.
Today being Wednesday and it not being so hot and humid out that I can't stand the idea of hot food, dinner tonight is going to be some conglomeration of garlic shrimp, spinach, and fettuccine alfredo. The mere idea makes me drool all over myself in a highly undignified fashion, and has been doing so for a couple of weeks now, so apparently I REALLY want that. (Slurp.)
I was supposed to get some new music for my voice lesson tonight, but I didn't do it. I've got enough things to play with right now, and I'm not really concentrating on any one thing because I'm sort of cross-training. I'm applying the overall principle of "stop being a bagpipe" to several different genres. I have a tendency to take in a lot of air and then overblow it, which is not necessary and too much work and several other things I shouldn't be doing, so I'm trying to get used to not doing it.
I hate, I just HATE, several-month Monday-Friday courses with one or two lectures per day all given by different people! Because the end-of-course survey is sorted by lecturer, and the survey building tool will only let you add, delete, edit, or move one thing at a time (and kicks you right back up to the top of the survey every time it does one of those things), setting up the survey takes at least three times longer than it really ought to. Fortunately the course in question is the only several-month course that doesn't also include tutorials, so I don't have to keep track of the tutor evaluations besides. This system is Going Away at some point and I really hope it's replaced with something that makes my life a little easier. Having created this thing is no guarantee that the students will actually submit it like they're supposed to.
I seem to be officially grumpy. I had probably better go find some lunch. That'll help.
And now for something completely different...we missed out on the thunderstorms last night, but the sunset was absolutely incredible. Between the cloud show and the post-storm light quality, it looked like one of those landscape paintings that makes you think the artist went completely overboard. Pink and beige clouds and a shade of blue sky you only see after a storm when the light is a very particular color. I didn't take any pictures because I couldn't do it justice. But it goes right up there with the completely pink sunset I saw one summer in Noank (the ocean was pink too), and the lemon yellow and neon orange post-thunderstorm sunset I saw in Brighton years ago.
Today being Wednesday and it not being so hot and humid out that I can't stand the idea of hot food, dinner tonight is going to be some conglomeration of garlic shrimp, spinach, and fettuccine alfredo. The mere idea makes me drool all over myself in a highly undignified fashion, and has been doing so for a couple of weeks now, so apparently I REALLY want that. (Slurp.)
I was supposed to get some new music for my voice lesson tonight, but I didn't do it. I've got enough things to play with right now, and I'm not really concentrating on any one thing because I'm sort of cross-training. I'm applying the overall principle of "stop being a bagpipe" to several different genres. I have a tendency to take in a lot of air and then overblow it, which is not necessary and too much work and several other things I shouldn't be doing, so I'm trying to get used to not doing it.
I hate, I just HATE, several-month Monday-Friday courses with one or two lectures per day all given by different people! Because the end-of-course survey is sorted by lecturer, and the survey building tool will only let you add, delete, edit, or move one thing at a time (and kicks you right back up to the top of the survey every time it does one of those things), setting up the survey takes at least three times longer than it really ought to. Fortunately the course in question is the only several-month course that doesn't also include tutorials, so I don't have to keep track of the tutor evaluations besides. This system is Going Away at some point and I really hope it's replaced with something that makes my life a little easier. Having created this thing is no guarantee that the students will actually submit it like they're supposed to.
I seem to be officially grumpy. I had probably better go find some lunch. That'll help.
