At 9:00 at the Center for Excellence in Curricular Engagement (CECE) at NC State, I met Myra, James, Caitlin, Heather, Michael, Alissa, and Elizabeth. James is Myra’s new boyfriend, and it was great to meet him. Caitlin, Heather, and Michael are all students, and this was their first service-learning immersion. Good kids. Our service today … Read more
I worked for a few hours in our new Service-Learning office. I met E-Ching, Sarah, Myra, Alissa, Patti, Elizabeth, Erin, Gregor at Southpoint where we all went to see: My favorite display was one on the nervous system. The first glance appeared alien-like, but once I realized what it was, it was just the coolest … Read more
I could throw up if I look at this long enough: I spent the day at Service-Learning today, where I finalized the information about a conference coming up in July, and I participated in a 1.5-hour post postmortem-type meeting about our Celebration of Learning on May 3rd. I also started going through all of my … Read more
I worked at my Service-Learning job today, and spent most of the time crafting a note about a conference coming up in July that, so far, Myra, Patti, and myself are planning to attend. It’s at Virginia Tech, Wednesday and Thursday, July 18th and 19th. Myra, Alissa, and I ran to Quizno’s at Mission Valley … Read more
WARNING: There is a bug in this blog entry! My alarm was set for 8:30 this morning, and I woke up to quiet at about 9:10. Turned out it was set for 8:30PM. I hate it when that happens. I had some “bus issues” today. On my way over to the stop at the Food … Read more
I didn’t mention that yesterday, before we left Helios, David’s lady friend told three great “Catholic jokes” and one gay joke, which were very visual so won’t work here, and in return, I shared with her the “picture of Jesus” and the “Jesus being a top” jokes, which she loved. We are all Catholics or lapsed … Read more
Cool ads: And a FedEx-Kinkos office products ad: And, finally, a clever quit smoking ad: I worked, basically, in an “on call” mode today, making myself available in case document-related bugs needed addressing during development’s “Defect Blitz,” going on yesterday and today. From 11:30–1:30, I met the Service-Learning team for our “Inaugural Lunch” in the new … Read more
My bug man woke me up at about 7 minutes after 8AM. Seems like whenever I want them on the front-end of the time range they estimate to arrive, they come on the back-end; and like today, when I would have preferred them on the back-end of the 8-11 estimate, they show up on the … Read more
It’s been one complete year now that I’ve only worked two days a week at IBM, and it’s been great. My biggest fear starting out last year was the effect that a 60% reduction in pay was going to have on my lifestyle, though I obviously thought it would be manageable or I wouldn’t have … Read more
I was up at 8:00 today, and at Sirtage Rental by about 8:45. The address of this business is listed as 12 Turner Street, which is just after the Arby’s on Hillsborough Street heading from Gorman down to State. The address is of a house, and on the porch that you walk up to there … Read more