Labor Day Weekend

Only time for a quick post. I promised pictures of my niece, and here's the best one ever! (Good job on the photography, K!)

Isn't it funny how it looks like she's wearing a bonnet, but really it's the burp-cloth on my shoulder? :)

Next time I see her she'll be five months old. Insane! (She's just two months here.)

And here's the classic "yawn" shot:


And just because I want to, here's me and Ms. "I Love Ithaca", aka Monica, before I left the Roch-cha-cha. :)


That's all for now, more to come in the next few days, hopefully.

Graduation Photos, As Promised

Here are some select photos from graduation. The quality suffered a little when I shrank them down, but you get the idea. (Hopefully this won't take too long for my family on dial-up...)



This is the area where the graduates would be sitting. I sat in the middle section, just about straight ahead.

This is the stage before the dean and the other "special people" came in.

This is my home away from home for the past two years, LBJ, Building 60, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.

Here I am out in front of NTID with my nice little folder which I'll eventually be able to put my degree in.

Since I graduated with a master's degree, I got to wear the fancy hood. Brown and orange are RIT's colors. The sort of aqua color (which you can see better from the front) I *think* refers to my degree being in education ... not sure, though.

My good friend and classmate, Sophie-Shifra Gold, the S-SG.

My professor, thesis mentor, and frequent project collaborator this past year, Dr. Harry Lang ("H-to-the-Lang" ... that one's for you, Monica!) :)

The Cats Came Back

The roommate has returned, thus so have Gus and Josie. I got a little used to them being gone -- I'd forgotten how much noise they make trying to open cabinets and closets. But it's good to have them back.

One more day ... Part of me gets the urge to be nervous, but it gets shut down by the part that says, "You'll go, and it'll be fine. It's not like you haven't done this before (excepting the students being deaf part). And at worst, it's only 10 weeks -- 9 if you throw out Spring Break." We'll see if that attitude holds when I'm trying to get to sleep tomorrow night.

Spent some time on Amazon earlier today ... resisted the urge to buy anything ... very proud of myself. Birthday's coming up, though -- maybe I should e-mail the link to my Wish List to a few people. Some of the books I want the most are from NCTM, though. Finally re-established my membership, so I can get those books cheaper myself with the member discount.

I actually read my "Student Teaching Supervision Handbook" last night. It's going to be a little weird being a student teacher after being a "real" teacher for 3 years, but I think it would be a much more negative "weird" if there weren't this new deafness element being thrown in.

I wonder how nervous my classmates are? Since none of them have shown any evidence of seeing this blog, I'll have to make some calls/emails tomorrow.