Heads Up

As I write, another tornado makes an appearance only 30 miles away. Sweet. They seem to follow me. This might be a reason for me to remain in rural vs. urban regions.

However, it was dry enough that we didn’t have to keep the students after study hall. Study hall ends at 9:00 pm, and by that time, both students and teachers are going crazy. Tonight was a fun study hall, but I feel bad if the students have to stay past 9 for weather reasons.

Tonight we reconstructed the pots I “borrowed” from the trash-can of the art building at Miami U. The kids noticed that one whole set of dishes and platters were supposed to be for someone’s wedding. I feel sorry for the artist who went through so much work to make that set only to throw it away.

I feel slightly evil… I’ve already taught my TA the joys of breaking pottery and playing with people’s minds. These are nice hobbies to have.

Then sometimes I feel slightly out of my league. Did you know that Kepler hints at the math that Newton creates/steals about gravity (calculus)? Apparently, it’s all the news in the field of the history of math. I had an astronomer and a math genius/musician argue about the particulars for 30 minutes while I was grading my homework on how to classify buttons. Eventually, the philosophy-of-the-mind instructor jumped in, but by that time, I had lost the thread of the argument.

Now in defense of buttons, they are rather hard to classify. There are two-hole buttons and the four-hole. Some of them only have the one loop on the back, and sometimes I even throw a hook-and-eye into the sample bags to confuse students. ACK! Well, my class have more fun than most here. We spent 2 hours today making pots today, and tomorrow we’ll make stone tools. We are aboriginals. Hear us yell!

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JoeyGirl Says:
July 9th, 2007 at 9:47 am
I really think you should yawp instead of yell, to take a page out of Whitman.

Hi, sister darling! Do call me sometime. I would love to hear what you’re up to, and I want to make wild and devious plans with you for the time I spend with you in Pennsylvania and elsewhere!

But one other thing…cnn.com this morning said that Pennsylvania was closing down some parts of its government, including museums. Is this going to affect you any?