3-12-15

Party for the 100th anniversary for the C of Ed. Orange and Blue style. 

3-10-15

I got a new computer! This is my office at school. 

3-8-15

Crab gumbo. Literally. 

3-6-15

No sleep for many nights. Migraine so bad my student Kat comes over to bring me flowers and bananas and yogurt. 

3-2-15

My students learning engineering design. 

3-1-15

Dinner at The Hound

2-28-15

 I finished this little outfit today so that my friend, drunken waffle, can use it in a photo shoot she has coming up. I'm looking forward to the time when I can make little things like this for my grandchildren.

 Dan came home today. Then my mother came over with a cake that she  made during a cooking class she taught.  I got to watch all my favorite TV shows again with  Dan  since he missed them week.

2-27-15

Drunken Waffle and I  went on a road trip to Camp Hill, Alabama  where we saw some Tibetan monks making a sand mandala on the floor of an old Unitarian church. We also drove around and looked at decaying small towns.

2-25-15

 Tonight a friend of mine from work came over to learn how to knit. She was a very good student, and after three hours I had her doing all the basic stitches. It was really fun to get to know someone new out of the work setting.

2-24-15

 I making this hat for my friend to use in a photo shoot,  and I tried to figure out how to put pink fluff in the ears. This was not the best way to do it.  I taught class tonight, and when I came home and had a terrible headache and really needed my evening dose of medicine. It was difficult to get through the day. I didn't even go into work until  it was time to teach, and I couldn't find a place to park because there was a basketball game and a baseball game going on.  One of my students had to take my car out of a loading zone and move it for me.

2-22-15

 My friend Doug made these for me. He dropped them off today in a box. They are so cute! I would like to have one for every window in the house.

2-20-15

 Today is my mother's 81st birthday. She had a party for herself with another friend whose birthday is the same day. The food was really good, the cake was exceptional, and I enjoyed catching up with some of her friends who are now my friends too.

2-21-15

 Dan is out of town, and I am tapering, so therefore I'm doing a lot of knitting.

2-19-15

  I hosted another knit night tonight, and even lit a fire in the fireplace. This is my friend, drunken waffle, figuring out how to cast on.  I taught a student from Saudi Arabia to crochet.

2-16-15

 Class Tonight

We did the Mystery Tube activity.

2-14-15

 Valentine's Day

Dan I Went To Country's Barbecue  For a Down-Home Dinner.

2-12-15

Dan finally got the purchase order from Texas and shipped three pallets of my kits. What an order! 

2-10-15

 This Is Not a Hat.

It Is a Hyperbolic Space.

2-9-15

 Class Tonight.

Took This Video Of My Students Working on the Little Circuit

2-8-15

 Square Is Making Beer Again, And It Is Taking up the Fridge.

2-7-15

After a week of tapering, Dan and I drove up to the lake and went on a 3 mile hike. It was so beautiful.

2-2-15

Class tonight- roller coaster physics and the 5E Learning Cycle. I loved it.

2-1-15

Sock #1 done!

1-31-15

Sock progress.

This is the strangest sock recipe... but it looks pretty good on my ankles. 

Today I worked on student lab schedules, graded homework, went shopping, got some more wool roving, talked with Aza, and felt perfectly perfect.

I have no pictures from yesterday, but yesterday I gave a workshop in Montgomery for 42 teachers and it went really really well. I felt great and the teachers all seemed engaged and seemed to learn a lot. 

1-28-15

Truth be told, I've had a rough month. I started tapering on January 9th again (off the medication I've been on since 2002 for facial pain) and the taper is very rough on me. It makes me very anxious and brings on migraines and a return of face pain. But, I'm going to get off this medication. I've been tapering since May bit by bit, and this month was particularly hard. I'm very thankful for knitting and spinning though... it's my life saver. It calms me down and keeps my hands occupied when I'm feeling particularly bad, which is frequent. 

Today I decided to treat myself and I got a manicure.

1-26-15

Monday night class... we did Milk o Motion and a bunch of other demos and it was fun. I'm trying to do activities in class each week this semester and give my students lots of activity ideas along the way. We are following the book Science Matters, by Trefil and Hazen, and I'm trying to design activities that match each chapter each week.

1-25-15

More yarn eye-candy.

I'm thinking this is pretty addicting.

1-24-15

I made this. Double ply yarn. Look how awesome it is!

1-23-15

This is what I spun. I used food coloring on the raw wool roving to make two different color ways. Next, I plan to ply them together.

1-21-15

I'm spinning.

First I crocheted, then knitted, and now the yarn thing has graduated to spinning.

1-19-15

Selma, Alabama

Home of the Civil Rights Movement

On the Alabama River

Where Martin Luther King led the march over the bridge to Montgomery to demand fair voting laws.

Today was Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and we spent the day in Selma. 

While there, we actually saw the movie, Selma. 

It was a very moving day, to say the least.