For my honors thesis project for UW I am taking a graduate school class with visiting eminent writer Rebecca Solnit and UW professor Alyson Hagy. For this class, my peers and I are going to create an Atlas of Laramie, Wyoming that detail things besides just the intersections and highways based on the Rebecca’s recent…
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Metropolitan weekend
On Friday I went to the 36th Annual Juried University of Wyoming Student Exhibition where many talented UW artists’ work were displayed including three of Evan’s paintings and two of Jessica‘s [bad picture of Evan’s “Crow Reservoir” -sold-] [Evan’s “Creatures” -$800-] [Jessica’s painting (“campfire”?) -sold] Afterward, we went to the Art Show after party in…
A lack!
GRRR! First failure of the 2011. A late assignment for my online class! [You DO NOT have to read this tale of woe, skip to “anyway” if you know what’s good for you] I wanted to go see Common, the key note speaker for MLK Days of Dialogue today at 7pm so I made sure…
Changing Education Paradigms
For this week’s movie, I’m posting this “lecture” by Sir Ken Robinson, though that makes it sound less interesting than it is. It’s interesting to watch the animation, and it’s an informative speech on education. My friend posted this on Facebook—and speaking of which, we all watched The Social Network last night. I just have…
Goings On
Deep breath—here we go! Reading: What is the What? By Dave Eggers. Sad book based on a true story of a Lost Boy of Sudan.While the subject material could make for an overly dramatic retelling of war, death, and displacement, Egger’s treats the subject well and it is a very good story that is approachable.…
Gleek
You know, when I was in high school “gleek” meant spitting. Does it still? Anyway, I used to like Glee, but the plot somehow got even worse so I can barely watch it long enough to enjoy the corny dancing. But I love Artie. I’m thinking about having videos every Monday, what are your thoughts?
Get a head start on the next holiday season…
I got this from the GOOD magazine website. Have you ever been? GOOD caters to talking about “good” things, people, and places, which speaks to my world view. You should visit! They discuss everything politics to design to culture to media.
Oxford Comma
If there is ever a comma that I feel confidently about, it’s the Oxford comma. Although some style books say that it’s not necessary, I think it makes perfect sense. The Oxford comma (also called the serial comma) is the comma used before a coordinating conjunction in a series: The flavors were chocolate, strawberry, and…
Make the most of your sleep
Carissa showed me this website and I thought it was neat. It gives you a suggestion on when you should sleep according to average sleep cycles (though yours might be different). Give it a whirl! I wish I knew about this sooner.
Questions? Answers.
Hello. I’ve decided to start a formspring account in case anyone would like to ask me a question (or make a comment) more anonymously and without some of the hassle of wordpress commenting. I’m trying it out to encourage people to comment who have been already looking at my blog. Feel free to ask to…