Maybe this time
Posted on 2008-Jan-27 at 10:22 in A day in the life..
I have tried to make a post in here about 6 times and have not had the time to just do it. I still don't since I have to make a 'quiz template' in Flash which is one program I really loathe to work with.
But I am going to take the time anyway-Well here I am typing this and making it happen!!
This is mostly just some images I took in Arcata and at Humboldt State Uni again from my recent three day trip up there to go to Jemma's orientation days. It was a grueling bus ride but I got to read a lot, crochet some and try to rest-that didn't happen.
The weather was pretty nice- no rain there or on the way. But it was freezing cold in Arcata and it's so damp that my asthma had a fit! I was using my inhaler, which I rarely ever use at home, a lot! It was so cold that when we got out to her little Volvo there was a coating of ice on the windows about a 1/4 thick. Jemma was finding this incredible and saying "what the hell?" I told her," Aren't you glad you were raised in Sonora and know how to scrape ice off a window?" She didn't appreciate that comment very much.
The first day went from 8 am to 8:30 pm with my daughter running from mandatory peer groups one after another. I went to two parental unit meetings and one peer groupy thing with her that they let me attend.
It was on diversity and tolerance.
So here are some photos of the beautiful campus again, and Arcata where we walked around a bit and had lunch.
Here is the square and a very weird sculpture in Arcata. The sculpture looks like the end of a snail or planariam worm or something to me:
The only trees left in the square:
Extremely cool house in Arcata- Adams Family goes 70s.
Jemma's little Volvo lives in Arcata now!
Some cool looking windows in town:
Back at the college:
Giant redwood tree next to Siemans Hall.
The library from the front
painting inside the library lobby.
The scull team is already practicing on the quad.
I had to be sneaky to get this image-she was NOT in a good mood by this time....At the HSU bookstore...$$$$$$$$
Looking out over the quad toward Sieman's Hall on the dead on.
Better close up of the cement tree wall at the front of the quad.
Gorgeous slate floor in the health clinic
On the way home:
Vineyards galore!
Some pointy mountain:
Shows how much I travel my own state derrrr...
Well that was my trip-one of many more to come. I didn't mind the train/bus connection. Just a lot of sitting which is hard on my back. I had been having some pain in my right hip socket for about two months and the trip really exacerbated it. I finally limped into Prompt care and they xrayed it and said I had bursitis. OUCH. No wonder it hurts so bad. So heat and Nsaids is the name of the game. It woke me up again this morning so it's not a whole lot better. I am sitting on a heating pad for goodness sakes-what more can I do?
I won't apologize for the downer post I made last time and I really do appreciate all the wonderful pep talks I got, but I am just going to have to deal with being lonely I guess. I am so busy most of the time I don't even think about it but there is every night when I go to bed-that's when it really hits me.
On another note, very saddened by the untimely death of Heath Ledger-whom we watched from his very first movie "10 things I hate about you" to his last one- I joined Netflix on a trail basis and watched BrokeBack Mountain Friday night.
Now I have to admit that I wasn't comfortable with the sex scenes but I just made myself some tea at that point and tried to keep an open mind about the story. I found myself very emotional about the love story in this movie-how terribly hard it would have been in the 70s for any kind of same sex love affair. The love these two actors portrayed for both being straight was unreal-it was tangible. I thought how tough, how brave you would have to be- and how strong was a love that transcended the norms and the barriers?
So it was a powerful movie and I am glad I did watch it. I feel very sad about such a talented young father dying so young- only 28 years old.
RIP Heath.
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