What a Week

This has been a crazy week in Kentucky. We printed the senior projects on Monday and Tuesday and installed them at the KY museum. The installation went well, it was actually a lot of fun. The seniors were layed back and hilarious. Poor Ellie, had worked nonstop for three days with little food and sleep to get her boards done. They really worked as a team to get everyone's work hung.
What I had planned to be a successful week at the university started off on the wrong foot. My guest speaker from 3-Form changed the date on me. She has been hard to get a hold of, I think she was hoping I would go away. The bright spot was a visit from the Sherwin Williams rep who talked about color trends for 2008. I love the colors and how they were used.
I am looking forward to this weekend, I am traveling to Louisville to see my daughter. My youngest daughter is in school at U of L studying electrical engineering. I also plan to do some shopping. I found this great blog on this shop that carries european antiques. I can't wait to see what she has.

Weekend Fun

Yesterday was a great day. I had breakfast with my oldest daughter Sarah and my husband. We went plant shopping in the cold drizzly KY weather. Sam and Sarah cleaned out the fish pond and I have 42 fish now. We had a mishap last year when Sam poured in the wrong chemical and killed all but two fish. So, I am happy to see the pond being productive over the winter. Our day ended with supper at our friends house. Randy and Denise are good friends that have had a couple of trying years with illnesses. Randy is recovering from a mini stroke, and has quit smoking and now eating more healthy. We love them dearly. Randy is a master cook and supper consisted of grilled chicken, grilled potatoes and onions and a grilled veggy medley. We ate, talked and laughed.
This morning I am checking e-mail and doing laundry while Sam continues to work on the outside to ready the house for spring. I will have to take photos when it is finished.

Earthquakes

Well, the scariest thing of nature in Kentucky to worry about is the occasional tornado. This morning I was awaken by vigorous shaking of the sofa I was sleeping on. I jumped to my feet about the time my husband was opening the bedroom door. At 4:30 in the morning, one can not make sense of their environment. I was more worried about it being a storm and never thought about an earthquake. Hmmm, don't those happen on the west coast? Let me tell you, I could not live in California. My husband opened the front door, calmly walked back upstairs, announced it's an earthquake, opened the door and promptly went back to sleep. This just makes me crazy, the man has no problem sleeping.
At 10:15 this morning, we felt an aftershock of 4.5. I have been amused by the chatter on facebook this morning from former students and present students along with my 19 year old daughter Samantha, who thinks this all fun.

Waiting for slow websites to load!

I teach interior design at Western Kentucky University. I love teaching and it amazes me how talented my group of students are. My problem solving class recently completed a new project using Photoshop, newspaper and fonts to create four self-portraits. Here is an example of one of the student's work.

When you want to get work done it never fails something will always get in the way. I am beyond frustrated right now waiting for blackboard to load so I can look at student projects. For those of you that are unfamiliar with "blackboard," it is a Internet course site where you can teach online courses or enhance your face-to-face course. I love working with blackboard except when it runs slow.

1st week of April

My husband and younger daughter have been in Costa Rica on a mission trip with our church Living Hope all week. I had received word last week that practically everyone on the mission trip were stricken with a nasty stomach flu. Costa Rica has an interesting practice of allowing thier pharmacies to dispense injections. Not sure I would want the local Wal~Mart giving me an injection.