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Monday, January 21. 2013
Jan. 21st, 2013 10:37 pmMy new teaching semester starts tomorrow and I’m staying at my parents’ house tonight so Papa can drive me to work early. I need to do a lot of photocopying, so I really need to get there early. I just watched the latest “Downton Abbey” episode on my computer and I will need to adjust to getting up at 6 something again, so I will go to sleep earlier.
Today was a national holiday – Martin Luther King Jr. Day – so almost everyone had a day off work. Bear wanted to go to Cradle of Aviation Museum in Long Island, so we went on a fun date today.
It was Inauguration Day, which I sort of wanted to watch, and it is my friend Sveta’s birthday and I was hoping to try calling her on Skype. She is 7 hours ahead in Belarus, and I knew with our outing I would probably miss the window. I did write her a birthday email and, hopefully, I will get to talk to her on Thursday or Saturday. So, despite some reluctance at missing these things, I got into a museum mood and it was a really fun museum.
We watched “The Universe” movie in their planetarium type theater with expands from Earth to Solar System to Milky Way to galaxy cluster to a wider universe. I do love astronomy. And then the museum traced the history of flight until modern era, including a replica of the Lunar Module (they were build on Long Island, so it was an actual Lunar Module that was supposed to go up on Apollo 19, which never happened. The museum had a lot if interactive features, from cabins you can sit in and gadgets you could touch. And there was a Blue Angel flight simulator. Definitely a good time.
After we got home around 5pm, I packed my bag and Bear drove me to the bus so I could go to my parent’s house. It is a little weird being here now. I did show my parents pictures of our Arizona trip on their big screen TV. (While in Arizona, I kept an actual paper journal, and I will write up something on it with some pictures, but that might take some time.)
I started reading “Doctor Zhivago” by Boris Pasternak. I promised Papa that I will read something in Russian this year, since I didn’t last year (I showed him my book list). So he emailed me “Doctor Zhivago” for my Kindle. I like it so far, and he is right – I need to keep my reading level up – I seemed fine reading “Stynx” in Russian a year ago, but for some reason, this seems harder. This book, on the other hand, is a classic and I barely remember the movie and it is one of those books that should be read anyway.
I’m also reading one chapter a day of unabridged “Les Miserables” this year. It has 365 chapters, so something like it, so I want to finally conquer it this year, after giving up twice in the past
Today was a national holiday – Martin Luther King Jr. Day – so almost everyone had a day off work. Bear wanted to go to Cradle of Aviation Museum in Long Island, so we went on a fun date today.
It was Inauguration Day, which I sort of wanted to watch, and it is my friend Sveta’s birthday and I was hoping to try calling her on Skype. She is 7 hours ahead in Belarus, and I knew with our outing I would probably miss the window. I did write her a birthday email and, hopefully, I will get to talk to her on Thursday or Saturday. So, despite some reluctance at missing these things, I got into a museum mood and it was a really fun museum.
We watched “The Universe” movie in their planetarium type theater with expands from Earth to Solar System to Milky Way to galaxy cluster to a wider universe. I do love astronomy. And then the museum traced the history of flight until modern era, including a replica of the Lunar Module (they were build on Long Island, so it was an actual Lunar Module that was supposed to go up on Apollo 19, which never happened. The museum had a lot if interactive features, from cabins you can sit in and gadgets you could touch. And there was a Blue Angel flight simulator. Definitely a good time.
After we got home around 5pm, I packed my bag and Bear drove me to the bus so I could go to my parent’s house. It is a little weird being here now. I did show my parents pictures of our Arizona trip on their big screen TV. (While in Arizona, I kept an actual paper journal, and I will write up something on it with some pictures, but that might take some time.)
I started reading “Doctor Zhivago” by Boris Pasternak. I promised Papa that I will read something in Russian this year, since I didn’t last year (I showed him my book list). So he emailed me “Doctor Zhivago” for my Kindle. I like it so far, and he is right – I need to keep my reading level up – I seemed fine reading “Stynx” in Russian a year ago, but for some reason, this seems harder. This book, on the other hand, is a classic and I barely remember the movie and it is one of those books that should be read anyway.
I’m also reading one chapter a day of unabridged “Les Miserables” this year. It has 365 chapters, so something like it, so I want to finally conquer it this year, after giving up twice in the past
