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Feb. 14th, 2020 03:18 pmI went to chorus rehearsal on Wednesday and actually felt like a human being, and got home at a semi-reasonable hour, and then forgot the Fifteenth (or so) Commandment and tried to get the Bonaire photos I took with the actual camera from my computer to my phone. And that took most of an hour, so I got to bed late, even though I did finally get what I wanted where I wanted it (and, now that I have a phone with sufficient capacity, I got all my music on my phone too). The Fifteenth (or so) Commandment is: Thou shalt not attempt to update or sync anything in any PM hour that starts with double digits.
What I wanted the photos on my phone for was to have coffee on Thursday with a former coworker who also used to dive and wants to get back into it. So naturally she canceled the appointment on Thursday morning. To be rescheduled, which means it won't ever happen. I more or less knew that was going to be how it went, but it wouldn't have if I hadn't gone to all the trouble with the photos.
Thursday night was dive club, which was supposed to be Jonathan Bird talking about Blue World and the IMAX film he's just finished working on. Except he had a server crash problem with the IMAX film files he was about to send for final editing, so he was working on that and we got one of the cameramen on the subject of filming in caves instead, which was good too. I have no particular interest in cave diving, at least not in narrow caves. Cenotes might be fun someday, though (a cenote is a very deep hole, but it opens to the sky). My current plan is to get my advanced open water certification and then buy a GoPro camera and start messing with that. I think by then I'll be confident enough to add video for dives less than 40 feet.
Today I'm getting swamped with externship letter requests. In the last three days I've written about 15 letters, for about four people. And then there's the "oh, and can you fill out the second page of this form for UPenn, and sign this form for VCU, and can I get another letter for this other program?" It's 3:45 on the Friday before a long weekend and the next person to ask me for a letter this week owes me coffee.
What I wanted the photos on my phone for was to have coffee on Thursday with a former coworker who also used to dive and wants to get back into it. So naturally she canceled the appointment on Thursday morning. To be rescheduled, which means it won't ever happen. I more or less knew that was going to be how it went, but it wouldn't have if I hadn't gone to all the trouble with the photos.
Thursday night was dive club, which was supposed to be Jonathan Bird talking about Blue World and the IMAX film he's just finished working on. Except he had a server crash problem with the IMAX film files he was about to send for final editing, so he was working on that and we got one of the cameramen on the subject of filming in caves instead, which was good too. I have no particular interest in cave diving, at least not in narrow caves. Cenotes might be fun someday, though (a cenote is a very deep hole, but it opens to the sky). My current plan is to get my advanced open water certification and then buy a GoPro camera and start messing with that. I think by then I'll be confident enough to add video for dives less than 40 feet.
Today I'm getting swamped with externship letter requests. In the last three days I've written about 15 letters, for about four people. And then there's the "oh, and can you fill out the second page of this form for UPenn, and sign this form for VCU, and can I get another letter for this other program?" It's 3:45 on the Friday before a long weekend and the next person to ask me for a letter this week owes me coffee.
