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Sunday, January 2, 2011
Jan. 2nd, 2011 11:24 pmWe finally made it to Brooklyn this morning to visit my grandparents and give my grandmother her birthday presents. The snow is slowly melting but it is still hard to find parking anywhere.
After weeks of waiting, I got my teaching assignment for my writing classes for the Spring, which starts in two weeks. I’ll be on Tuesday/Thursday afternoon schedule there and my classes are completely filled right now. I really will need to pace the grading. So Friday will be my only at home day. I will really have a busy semester and I’m actually looking forward to that. I need to start writing lectures from my Global class next week.
“Mountains of the Moon” – 1990 movie about Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke and their African expedition to discover the source of the Nile. Very much old school explorers movie; very British too. I liked it a lot. My favorite scene was when Burton and Livingston compared scars. Fiona Shaw was great as Isabel Burton.
After looking on the internet for various cross stitiching and craft idea I came upon this exhibition in Manhattan called “A Stitch In Jewish Time: Provocative Textiles.” It is a free exhibition and I will definitely put it on my ‘try to see’ list. The pictures of the pieces in the exhibition look very original.
Exercise – 30 minutes on the Wii – I do wish they had longer exercises; I don’t like to keep picking different ones to get to 30 minutes.
Cross stitch – I decided on two ply, I did most of the ball in two-ply with a middle yellow section in three to compare. Since there wasn’t a significant difference and two ply is easier to start the stitch with, I’ll do that. I also did satin stitch for the eyes of the toys. The needle is much sharper for the quilt cloth than for normal Aida cloth, I need to be a bit more careful.
After weeks of waiting, I got my teaching assignment for my writing classes for the Spring, which starts in two weeks. I’ll be on Tuesday/Thursday afternoon schedule there and my classes are completely filled right now. I really will need to pace the grading. So Friday will be my only at home day. I will really have a busy semester and I’m actually looking forward to that. I need to start writing lectures from my Global class next week.
“Mountains of the Moon” – 1990 movie about Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke and their African expedition to discover the source of the Nile. Very much old school explorers movie; very British too. I liked it a lot. My favorite scene was when Burton and Livingston compared scars. Fiona Shaw was great as Isabel Burton.
After looking on the internet for various cross stitiching and craft idea I came upon this exhibition in Manhattan called “A Stitch In Jewish Time: Provocative Textiles.” It is a free exhibition and I will definitely put it on my ‘try to see’ list. The pictures of the pieces in the exhibition look very original.
Exercise – 30 minutes on the Wii – I do wish they had longer exercises; I don’t like to keep picking different ones to get to 30 minutes.
Cross stitch – I decided on two ply, I did most of the ball in two-ply with a middle yellow section in three to compare. Since there wasn’t a significant difference and two ply is easier to start the stitch with, I’ll do that. I also did satin stitch for the eyes of the toys. The needle is much sharper for the quilt cloth than for normal Aida cloth, I need to be a bit more careful.