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IT'S ALIVE!!!!!
Sep. 4th, 2008 11:41 amI guess it's about time that I updated this thing, eh? *grin*
August wasn't a bad month, overall. I had a piping gig on the 8th which I was a bit nervous about—I had learned some tunes out of the Sullivan Ross Collection of Pipe Music, which a friend gave me a copy of several months ago. One of Sullivan Ross' grandsons still lives in the Sault, and I was asked to play some of his grandfather's music for him. It was a wonderful way to spend an afternoon, and I've been asked to make a recording of some of the tunes from the book. I'm working on learning them now, and I hope that the results will be satisfactory.
My brother was in town for about two and a half weeks, and we had a great visit. I even managed to drag him out to camp for a day or so. :)
Other than that, there's not much to tell. I've been writing again, some fanfic (including a follow-up on the Death Eater tent revival story and an X-Files/Harry Potter crossover that I'm having a bit of trouble with), some original fiction and even a bit of poetry. I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed putting my thoughts into a set form—so much of my recent poetry has been free-form or haibun—and I've been tinkering a bit with various forms, especially pantoums and villanelles. I'm considering setting at least one of the results to music, if only for my own amusement. :)
I got bored with the yellow colour scheme that I've been using lately, so today I thought I'd switch back to something similar to the original colours I had when I first set this journal up. I put the yellow up at a time when I was feeling particularly distressed about several things as an attempt to cheer myself up a bit—and usual, the attempt rather backfired because I found that I hated all that yellow staring me in the face every time I paid my poor, neglected LJ a visit. I guess I just can't force myself to be cheerful. :) But I like the new purple theme, and I think that even if I do tinker with it now and then, I'll keep it for awhile.
So...what else? I've signed up for another online AQ course this term. This time, I'm going to work on adding the Junior basic qualification to my certificate—I'll be able to teach grades 4-6, as well as the grades (7-12) which I'm already qualified to teach. I'm looking forward to it, and perhaps the knowledge I'll gain about this division will be helpful in developing my approach to teaching grades 7 and 8 as well—most of my classes in teacher's college were geared towards teaching in high school, which wasn't really all that helpful when I had my placement in a grade 8 classroom!
And that's about it for now. Maybe now that I've got a colour scheme on this journal that I actually like, I'll write more frequently here again. :)
August wasn't a bad month, overall. I had a piping gig on the 8th which I was a bit nervous about—I had learned some tunes out of the Sullivan Ross Collection of Pipe Music, which a friend gave me a copy of several months ago. One of Sullivan Ross' grandsons still lives in the Sault, and I was asked to play some of his grandfather's music for him. It was a wonderful way to spend an afternoon, and I've been asked to make a recording of some of the tunes from the book. I'm working on learning them now, and I hope that the results will be satisfactory.
My brother was in town for about two and a half weeks, and we had a great visit. I even managed to drag him out to camp for a day or so. :)
Other than that, there's not much to tell. I've been writing again, some fanfic (including a follow-up on the Death Eater tent revival story and an X-Files/Harry Potter crossover that I'm having a bit of trouble with), some original fiction and even a bit of poetry. I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed putting my thoughts into a set form—so much of my recent poetry has been free-form or haibun—and I've been tinkering a bit with various forms, especially pantoums and villanelles. I'm considering setting at least one of the results to music, if only for my own amusement. :)
I got bored with the yellow colour scheme that I've been using lately, so today I thought I'd switch back to something similar to the original colours I had when I first set this journal up. I put the yellow up at a time when I was feeling particularly distressed about several things as an attempt to cheer myself up a bit—and usual, the attempt rather backfired because I found that I hated all that yellow staring me in the face every time I paid my poor, neglected LJ a visit. I guess I just can't force myself to be cheerful. :) But I like the new purple theme, and I think that even if I do tinker with it now and then, I'll keep it for awhile.
So...what else? I've signed up for another online AQ course this term. This time, I'm going to work on adding the Junior basic qualification to my certificate—I'll be able to teach grades 4-6, as well as the grades (7-12) which I'm already qualified to teach. I'm looking forward to it, and perhaps the knowledge I'll gain about this division will be helpful in developing my approach to teaching grades 7 and 8 as well—most of my classes in teacher's college were geared towards teaching in high school, which wasn't really all that helpful when I had my placement in a grade 8 classroom!
And that's about it for now. Maybe now that I've got a colour scheme on this journal that I actually like, I'll write more frequently here again. :)
