Month: September 2011

    • wilson is in panama, helping his cousin to buy a car
    • i am teaching right NOW, believe it or not!
    • students are working out a problem
    • rarely, but sometimes this happens
    • wheeee!
    • wil just tried to call, but couldnt get through
    • can’t talk while i teach anyway
    • they are working on filling out all the past tense from the excerable Celine Dion song, “Because you loved me”
    • can’t stand Celine Dion
    • but many of these older adult students seem to like her
    • gotta give em what they want
    • *sigh*
    • i’d REALLY like to be teaching them old sea shanties and all about age of sail SHIPS!
    • hmmmm

  • age of sail obsession

    i forgot to mention it.

     

    i have become obsessed by the age of sail.

     

    I realise now that I have always been captivated by the ‘boaty’ bits of books, and disappointed when they go back to land. it took reading “the bounty” for the full-fledged fully-aware obsession to bloom.

     

    and now I am reading Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series – on which the movie MASTER and COMMANDER was based  – and of which – oh joy! – there are 21 tomes.

     

    I have read the first three books twice (the second time I actually understood better what was going on in all that boaty-ness) and then read book 4, and am about a third of the way through book 5.and only have book 6 on standby……

     

    HMS Surprise – used for the movie “Master and Commander”

     

     

  • wet season

    not very wet this year

     

    hmmm

     

    also, i have barely written.

     

    or done many of the things i like to keep busy doing

     

    must try to change, write more, post more, visit xanga, my first and truest internet love

     

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    lily is finishing up her last year of school. how amazing is that? amazingly amazing.

     

    bela and elias are becoming brooding teenagers.

     

    heaven help us as they all three move that way!

     

    we hoped to go home to australia for christmas, elias and I, but doesn’t look like it will work out. =(