On the mend

Well, I didn't make it to class on Monday but I was back at it on Tuesday. Good thing; Dianne Palmer-Quay was presenting on ethnomusicology. Good class, lots of visuals/audio.

Got a vernacular media program plan due on Friday (to present, oral and written form), a group project. We're getting along pretty well. Gotta synthesize our plans. I'm writing up the audio cassette plan portion. "Audio cassettes?", you may well ask. Yeah, a people group on a string of islands in the Solomon Islands chain. Not into cds yet, not exactly flush with disposable income. But they've mostly got cassette players by now so that's what we'll produce. Or, for the purposes of this project, pretend to plan to produce. We have been consulting with a real live translator though, one who has helped produce their New Testament and is now working on Genesis with them. She likes our plans so far, may implement some elements when they go back to the Solomons.

Didn't make it to Lenten "soup supper" tonight. Too much homework. And Rob shaved himself a goatee thing. Didn't tell me he did it either; I just turned around from the computer to see him sitting on the couch with his laptop, looking all goatee-y. Impetuous man. I like, though.

Argh

Yes, the time of posting is correct. I kind of woke up coughing and now I'm fully awake so I thought I'd do a little posting. I seem to be not recovering as quickly as I usually do. I was out of school Wednesday but went back on Thursday with just a sore throat and some minor spaciness. Friday was OK but I began to feel worse later that evening. I missed the introduction to bee-keeping course on Saturday and church yesterday. I got no homework done whatsoever. Hence, the title of this posting.

I was supposed to be doing my student teaching portion of the course tomorrow, talking for 15 minutes about the Analysis of Non-Western Music course that I took last summer at GIAL. I'm not seeing that happening though, unless they're OK with me winging it.

Sick day

Yeah, I was out sick yesterday. I knew something was wrong when I woke up Wednesday morning just before 7:00AM and realized that I had slept through the whole night without waking once! Then, I felt the achy fuzzies from head to back. Ugh. So, I slogged about the apartment all day rather than infest my classmates.

I was productivesque though. I made a pot of chicken soup with the leftovers from our Sunday chicken. I did people group info comparisons from the Joshua Project website on the countries we're looking at working in (Cameroon and Namibia) and the people groups we're looking at working with (the list is longer). I read an entire book, "More than a skeleton" by Paul L. Maier. It's sort of the Lutheran (LCMS) version of the Left Behind series. Good read. I lay around alot. I irrigated my sinuses. And today I was able to go back to class. Yay!

Our group project today was to develop and script an 8 minute radio program based on a parable of our choosing. Maybe I'll toss the script up here when the project's done so you can see the kind of thing we're learning to do.

Web Trekking

http://home.earthlink.net/~eshinee

Our new permanentish website, for photos, official info on what we're doing and current contact information. Bookmark and keep checking back to it; a work in progress.

Hilary Swank

OK, I had someone approach me in the cafeteria yesterday and tell me "how much" I look like Hilary Swank. Here's the freaky thing; I've been casually observing her hair for a few years now and we seem to have had the same length of hair, cutting and growing at the same time, for as long as I've been aware of her. I don't know. Here are a few pictures with dates. Those who have known me a while and remember the stages of my hair ... what do you think? Uncanny coincidence?


sometime in 1999


March 17, 2000


Spring/Summer 2001


March 2004