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I was thinking earlier that it would be interesting to see if I could go a whole month and post something every single day. I've known others to do it, and it looked interesting and challenging. I have a feeling it's a lot harder than it sounds. "Ah, no big deal, just come in and write an entry right?" Nah, I think that's where you're wrong, it really is tricky having to come up with anything to write in this thing sometimes.
The past few days haven't been too eventful. Yesterday was spent doing some scanning for one of my classes of notes that I have to study from for a test on Wednesday, and I looked over the paper I completed the day before just to see that it made sense after a night's break from looking at it. It did make sense, I'm happy to report, and it doesn't have to be a research paper anyway--just something on the particular reading assignment we had to do--so it wasn't too bad. The fact that I put more work into what seems like anything and everything I do, though, that's where it usually makes things interesting.
Yesterday also included reading a lot for pleasure. I've read a lot while I've been here. I first finished the book Wish List, (I forget the author, but I think it's a foreign name that's interesting to spell), and last night I finished the book The Night of the Bat. Wish List was about these two teenagers who robbed and hurt an elderly man and were sent to the spirit world. The boy was sent straight to hell, but the girl, Meg, was given a chance to redeem herself and go to Heaven if she went and helped the man she killed fulfill his last wishes before he, too, died of a heart problem. It's a rather interesting book, and I don't want to give too much away should anyone ever want to read it.
The Night of the Bat was about a teenage boy who goes into the jungles of I think it was Brazil to visit his father who's doing an expedition on collecting and observing bats. His dad is a batologist, (I think that's the word--one who studies bats), and it turns out that a few men had recently disappeared from the expedition. A really scary huge bat comes into the picture, and that's where it gets interesting. Jake, the boy, is not really taken seriously by his father, but by the end of the book, both people learn valuable lessons. That's where I'll end the description of the book, but you can get both from NLS if you really want. I read both in hardcopy Braille, because sometimes that's just really cool to do. Braille displays are nice, but there's just something about an actual hardcopy Braille book that just isn't there with electronic displays...
I'm now reading a biography of Leader Dogs for the Blind, which is really interesting. I'm not too far into it, only having started it last night, but it's good so far. I don't know when I'll get to finish it as I really don't think I'll take it back with me to school--though I probably could, it isn't like I live 4+ hours away and coming over to mail the book back is an issue--and when the semester is over and I have time to read, I'll be headed straight up to Ithaca, and when I'm finished with that--I'll actually be leaving the internship a week early do to my apparently "busy" schedule full of commitments--I'm home for three days and then it's off to Seattle. I actually can't wait for both of those, I'm really excited about my summer:). The Ithaca internship conflicts with the Seattle conference, but I let the professor at Ithaca who's heading the internship know about that before hand, and she said she didn't think it would be a problem if I left early, as long as my obligations and whatnot for the project I'll be working on are finished before then and the rest of my team knows I'll be leaving early. Anyone who knows me well knows that getting everything done most likely won't be a problem, at least on my end of things, and no big deal--I'll just let my group know that I won't be able to stay the whole time. It'll all work out, and it's going to be exciting. Back to what I was saying--I come home on weekends a lot, though, so I could always read the book then.
Speaking of Ithaca, I emailed the mobility instructor that I worked with up there about orientation to campus again just to brush up on things, and he said that was fine, he'd be happy to work with me again. Things are looking up on that front, too, which is definitely good. I'm looking forward to seeing him again as it's been a year or so since I've seen him, and I'm almost sure Liv is as well--she absolutely loved it when he'd come and we'd go out on various trips and whatnot around the area. We'd be walking from class or something, and she'd see him and get excited, even if he was trying to hide--that apparently doesn't work with Liv no matter how well you try it. I've also made contact with the disabilities people up there, and I'm looking forward to seeing them also. I'm going to email them again next week, to see if they'd let me use the technology they have there if I need to. It shouldn't be a problem, but I just want to make sure. It pays to have been up there before and know people and some of the ropes, so to speak, it really does.
It's actually taken me some time to write this. I've been interrupted by various phone calls, Kristen asking me somewhat nicely to get my clothes out of the dryer, and the fact that my dog wanted attention. The phone calls have ended, laundry retrieved from the dfyer, folded and put away, and I think my dog is somewhere outside in the backyard being a dog. It's gorgeous outside though, so she likes it out there.
Hmm, what else to write about? I'm not too sure. I emailed my Voc Rehab counselor yesterday, and we're meeting next Thursday to discuss plans for the Fall in terms of what needs to be done on her end, and also--it's a scary thought--what I'll do after graduation, which in all reality isn't really that far away. I also want to email my advisor to see if we can meet to discuss courses for the Fall. I honestly have no clue what to take, the unfortunate setback of last semester still pervading into this one having complicated things just slightly. Ah well, I'll email her, and we'll go from there. I'll explain to her my concerns and whatnot, and hopefully things will be okay.
With that, I think I'll call it an entry. Peter just called a bit ago to tel me he's on his way down here. I think we're going to go brave the Christiana mall as scary as that sounds. Kathryn will probably come with us, so that should be interesting. I don't know what else we'll do, maybe we can watch the documentary that's supposedly on the second disk of the Rent DVD. I tried to figure out how to watch it yesterday, but I think it's somewhere in the menus that I don't know how to get around, so I couldn't figure it out.
Ya know, I think I can get use to this entry-a-day thing, I really do. I'm enjoying it, and I honestly do miss writing in this thing as frequently as I once did. To![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kwviola, congratulations on the phone post/voice post, it was nifty! Yay for paid account features! Take care guys, more soon, I swear.
The past few days haven't been too eventful. Yesterday was spent doing some scanning for one of my classes of notes that I have to study from for a test on Wednesday, and I looked over the paper I completed the day before just to see that it made sense after a night's break from looking at it. It did make sense, I'm happy to report, and it doesn't have to be a research paper anyway--just something on the particular reading assignment we had to do--so it wasn't too bad. The fact that I put more work into what seems like anything and everything I do, though, that's where it usually makes things interesting.
Yesterday also included reading a lot for pleasure. I've read a lot while I've been here. I first finished the book Wish List, (I forget the author, but I think it's a foreign name that's interesting to spell), and last night I finished the book The Night of the Bat. Wish List was about these two teenagers who robbed and hurt an elderly man and were sent to the spirit world. The boy was sent straight to hell, but the girl, Meg, was given a chance to redeem herself and go to Heaven if she went and helped the man she killed fulfill his last wishes before he, too, died of a heart problem. It's a rather interesting book, and I don't want to give too much away should anyone ever want to read it.
The Night of the Bat was about a teenage boy who goes into the jungles of I think it was Brazil to visit his father who's doing an expedition on collecting and observing bats. His dad is a batologist, (I think that's the word--one who studies bats), and it turns out that a few men had recently disappeared from the expedition. A really scary huge bat comes into the picture, and that's where it gets interesting. Jake, the boy, is not really taken seriously by his father, but by the end of the book, both people learn valuable lessons. That's where I'll end the description of the book, but you can get both from NLS if you really want. I read both in hardcopy Braille, because sometimes that's just really cool to do. Braille displays are nice, but there's just something about an actual hardcopy Braille book that just isn't there with electronic displays...
I'm now reading a biography of Leader Dogs for the Blind, which is really interesting. I'm not too far into it, only having started it last night, but it's good so far. I don't know when I'll get to finish it as I really don't think I'll take it back with me to school--though I probably could, it isn't like I live 4+ hours away and coming over to mail the book back is an issue--and when the semester is over and I have time to read, I'll be headed straight up to Ithaca, and when I'm finished with that--I'll actually be leaving the internship a week early do to my apparently "busy" schedule full of commitments--I'm home for three days and then it's off to Seattle. I actually can't wait for both of those, I'm really excited about my summer:). The Ithaca internship conflicts with the Seattle conference, but I let the professor at Ithaca who's heading the internship know about that before hand, and she said she didn't think it would be a problem if I left early, as long as my obligations and whatnot for the project I'll be working on are finished before then and the rest of my team knows I'll be leaving early. Anyone who knows me well knows that getting everything done most likely won't be a problem, at least on my end of things, and no big deal--I'll just let my group know that I won't be able to stay the whole time. It'll all work out, and it's going to be exciting. Back to what I was saying--I come home on weekends a lot, though, so I could always read the book then.
Speaking of Ithaca, I emailed the mobility instructor that I worked with up there about orientation to campus again just to brush up on things, and he said that was fine, he'd be happy to work with me again. Things are looking up on that front, too, which is definitely good. I'm looking forward to seeing him again as it's been a year or so since I've seen him, and I'm almost sure Liv is as well--she absolutely loved it when he'd come and we'd go out on various trips and whatnot around the area. We'd be walking from class or something, and she'd see him and get excited, even if he was trying to hide--that apparently doesn't work with Liv no matter how well you try it. I've also made contact with the disabilities people up there, and I'm looking forward to seeing them also. I'm going to email them again next week, to see if they'd let me use the technology they have there if I need to. It shouldn't be a problem, but I just want to make sure. It pays to have been up there before and know people and some of the ropes, so to speak, it really does.
It's actually taken me some time to write this. I've been interrupted by various phone calls, Kristen asking me somewhat nicely to get my clothes out of the dryer, and the fact that my dog wanted attention. The phone calls have ended, laundry retrieved from the dfyer, folded and put away, and I think my dog is somewhere outside in the backyard being a dog. It's gorgeous outside though, so she likes it out there.
Hmm, what else to write about? I'm not too sure. I emailed my Voc Rehab counselor yesterday, and we're meeting next Thursday to discuss plans for the Fall in terms of what needs to be done on her end, and also--it's a scary thought--what I'll do after graduation, which in all reality isn't really that far away. I also want to email my advisor to see if we can meet to discuss courses for the Fall. I honestly have no clue what to take, the unfortunate setback of last semester still pervading into this one having complicated things just slightly. Ah well, I'll email her, and we'll go from there. I'll explain to her my concerns and whatnot, and hopefully things will be okay.
With that, I think I'll call it an entry. Peter just called a bit ago to tel me he's on his way down here. I think we're going to go brave the Christiana mall as scary as that sounds. Kathryn will probably come with us, so that should be interesting. I don't know what else we'll do, maybe we can watch the documentary that's supposedly on the second disk of the Rent DVD. I tried to figure out how to watch it yesterday, but I think it's somewhere in the menus that I don't know how to get around, so I couldn't figure it out.
Ya know, I think I can get use to this entry-a-day thing, I really do. I'm enjoying it, and I honestly do miss writing in this thing as frequently as I once did. To
kwviola, congratulations on the phone post/voice post, it was nifty! Yay for paid account features! Take care guys, more soon, I swear.
