Monthly Archives: January 2010
A very fun yet exhausting new semester
Today was the first day of sitting in classes for me this semester. I am taking a full day of classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It turns out that my classes are all over campus, and I walked about 4 miles today while walking between buildings. The University of Utah campus is absolutely huge! I [...]
Raspberries are straight from heaven
I believe that raspberries must be straight from heaven. I love them. I also believe they are a beautiful fruit, and I need to work on taking better pictures before I gobble them up. I need better lighting on the berries so I can improve my aperture setting. This would give me better focus and [...]
Teaching contract
I now have my new social security card, so I can finally become official with my teaching at the University of Utah and Westminster College. I will finally be able to be paid. It has been a bit of a mess as I have searched the whole house looking for my old card. I finally [...]
Liz is so cute
My youngest daughter is really cute. She is full of personality and 14-year-old-ness.
A candle’s flame
A candle’s flame is very mesmerizing and pretty. I love candles, but they wreak havoc with my asthma when burning. I use rarely use them because of that problem. Once again, our Salt Lake valley is experiencing an air quality inversion. This is a phenomenon where bad air and cold air get trapped in the [...]
Ben’s Egg Machine
Ben has been working on a physics homework project that requires him to create a machine that raises an egg within five minutes. Ben wants to become an engineer, and he has really worked hard on designing his machine. He decided to use pop bottle bottoms. As a result, a lot of soda has been [...]
I love my new job!
I started teaching at Westminster tonight. I am loving it already. These are my Westminster students for the semester. Don’t they look like a good looking bunch? They are awfully nice. This is going to be a good bunch of students. They all want to be there, and they are already motivated to do well [...]
Nishtha Hand-Stitched Handbags
I will be helping to create a website for an organization in India that helps women and girls to become empowered and able to sustain a healthy lifestyle. I feel honored to have been asked to help with this task. My friend Rebecca is designing the logo, and there are several very wonderful people from [...]
Oscar loves school bookstore bags
My really cute kitty cat Oscar loves the bags that I get when I buy supplies from the University bookstore. They are rather sturdy, as plastic goes, and opaque so he really grooves on sitting and sleeping in these bags. The problem now is that Katie cat likes to pounce on him when he is [...]
Blue Moon Last Year
We had a “blue Moon,” or second full moon of the month, on New Year’s Eve 2009. I have been getting better at taking night pictures, using fully manual settings. This photo was taken at 8:30PM with some cloud cover. I used my 55mm-200mm zoom lens, and I shot this at 145mm. Aperture was set [...]
