Life as Metaphor

 i started to post into the class (let's hope she gives me credit), tomorrow i am going to start making the final presentation...

i also have started to read the textbook on the next class (Environmental Toxicology); it is so ironic, to be reading much more advanced and complicated writings (i.e. human physiology, the metabolizing of chemical compounds, etc) is actually a bit comforting compared to just reading the history of laws/Acts/proposals...

i managed to also get a bit of walking in tonight, but did trip and fall (i'm okay, btw)...
i made Tony kiss me tonight, and promise that he will still love me if i get a C in the law-class... thank G-d, the class will be over SOON.
shalom - Ulla/e. & co.

constitutional: 1,565 steps. 

 i think i have finally recovered from that Law-class (unfortunately, the class still has one week left)..... i am convinced i will be able to finish ch. 10 by tomorrow night, this gives me 2 days of "free time", and i will be able to spend that last week just talking with the class (getting credit for participation) and working on the last presentation...  i also hope to be able to begin reading the textbook of the next class a little early (which would be a *huge* blessing, week #1 of every class is HELL with the amount of chapters they require the students to read)...

another happy thing that happened tonight was when i started a discussion at the RG-site:
 https://www.researchgate.net/post/Finding_the_taxonomical_identity_of_a_fungus

i had posted pictures i took of a fungus on a wasp's nest.. i had taken those fotos over a *year* ago and have not been able to find out what the hell fungus this was (and couldn't find ANY-one who recognized the fungus either)... i put up that discussion 2 hrs. ago and ONE hr. ago, a fellow-researcher gave me a RG-link (to an article) that is helping me *immensely*.... i *love* this RG-site!!

i have to confess though, i was part of a debate tonight ;) ..... some Economics/Philosophy researchers were discussing whether it was "money" or "philosophy" that was in control of "quality of life"..... i argued that *both* are necessary.... that we civilized urban humans have need for money to survive this modern industrialized world, but it that our own personal philosophies would define our QOL regardless of the amount of money that we have in our possession...... kvetching from both sides of the argument, but i'm not complaining, it was a hoot ;)

need to go unwind for a bit.
shalom! - Juju/e. & co.

constitutional: @1,100 steps 

 i have had 4 days or so of complete rest... i've been doing nothing but sewing and reading over at Research Gate (and uploading a handful of my own projects)... but i think i've reached the stage where i want to get back to reading the Law class' textbook (will start the book tomorrow), but i'm going to make it a point to take my time and not rush with the reading....

this house is a place of much angst... this morning Sasha (female bunny) was acting a bit "icky", she sounds a little phlegmy to me, and refused to take a cracker from her father (so he was inconsolable *all* day).. but after her nap, she ate crackers and ran around the house with her brother (Herschel).... honestly, i think it might just be allergies, her ears feel perfectly normal... i'm a little worried that she might be getting phlegmy from the crickets' shells... so i hope that our new lizard (that is having a fiesta) will put a damper on her reaction.. i am also cleaning the floor at least once a week, and plan to get an air filter to keep downstairs (but i might have to wait for the Pell Grant before i can afford this)...

time to go get ready for bed, need to play a bit of mahjong to "unwind", before i take the screen-shots from the satellites...
shalom - e. & co.

last night i handed in a *very* late paper for week #4 (of environmental law), let us HOPE she gives me at least a 70, but i have no idea if this teacher is going to let me pass this class...

i discovered "Research Gate" a few days ago when i was googling on Facebook, and looking to see if i could find anyone discussing how that website is having a detrimental affect on the general intelligence of the users.... i was able to read a conversation that was taking place at the Research Gate site, and joined the site myself so that i could send a message to one of the site-members..

i am striking up quite a friendship with the woman (Gloria) that i sent that message to... but i am still pretty clueless in how to use the site.... so far i managed to upload 3 of my "projects": Observation of the Arctic Ice-Sheet, Observation of the Antarctic Ice-Sheet, Observation of Nuuk Greenland.

so far 2 people have come across my projects and i have "recommendations" from them both (pretty cool!)

didn't get any walking in today, much sewing (have to show the pic tomorrow, i'm already in bed...
time to go rest.
shalom! - Juju/e. & co.

 i had a grand mal yesterday, so i spent all day monday AND today, like a lump.... couldn't think very clearly, felt icky, and just spent most of my time sewing....  i sent the teacher a letter letting her know that i had a seizure, and haven't been working on the paper, and let her know that i won't upload it until wednesday (but seriously, i am not rushing, might even upload it on thursday)....

i've totally given up on "pushing myself" for this class.. i will probably get a C.... i don't care anymore.

no walking today, i just didn't have the energy..
hopefully i will be able to feel more awake tomorrow..
shalom - Ulla/e. & co.

 read half of ch.11, and sewed a bit...
managed to get a bit of walking in, and had a good serious chat with my Anna (it's been a long time coming)...

shalom - e. & co.

constitutional: 1,656 steps 

 i managed to get thru the 25 pgs. of toxic chemical risk & assessment (it was HELL)..
i did manage to get a couple sewing "breaks" (see below), as well as able to save all the satellite screen shots, AND my power-walking (almost 2,000 steps actually)....

this entire time i was doing the usual bi-locating... the men usually "baby sit" for me if they are around and i have a lot of schoolwork to do, but today it was a little different.... Jules and Wesley wanted to go down to the sea, and Seamus wanted to go with them..... usually Melody skips along, side by side, with her 3 fathers, but not today... she decided to stay behind and play with her siblings (both babies were awake, not napping).... i agreed that she could stay behind IF she was a good girl and let mommy do her schoolwork.. (she was mostly focused on the babies, so it all worked out)...

but i was around 1/2 finished with the reading when she came to me and said that she wanted to change her name from Melody to a Hebrew name that meant the same thing... i just asked her "okay sweetheart, but to be honest, i have to google the computer a bit.. i don't know the Hebrew translation yet".... she very patiently let me go back to my reading after promising her that we would look it up in an hour or so....

Google gave us a handful of words but Melody refused a lot of them because of the gender of the words (obviously), i suggested that we just pick one of the words and alter the gender, but she would have none of it... but she read a word "Neh'ima" that means "tune, melody, tone, descant" -- i had to pause when i saw that last word (i had to make sure it didn't mean anything "ugly"), but once i read that the word generally referred to a rather soprano form of music sang in hymns/chants... the word also is used to describe a rather "loquacious" person, but Melody actually got a kick out of that..

she lowered her face just a smidge and smirked "i *do* talk a lot, ima" (making fun of herself), but as per usual i popped into mommy-mode "oh honey, but we LOVE that you ramble like you do, your words mean so much to us!"... Wesley had once told her "you are just sharing a large part of yourself verbally... we *need* those words" (his major was English Lit., i'm surprised he doesn't follow her around with a tape recorder)...

barush Hashem, for my Neh'ima 
shalom! - Juju/e. & co.

constitutional: 1,997 steps

 managed to finish the worksheet on time, but going to have to hand in the presentation at least one day late...

almost done with sewing the little house, but unfortunately no power-walk today..



time to go take the screen-shots of the satellites and then head to bed...
shalom - Ulla/e. & co.

read 33 pages, and managed to not pull out any hair, but wasn't able to post in the classroom at all....
tomorrow, i have to post at least 3 times to the class and get the worksheet filled out (i think i'll be okay)....

on monday i have to put together a presentation, i have NO idea if i'll be able to finish it or might have to drag it thru to tues...
either way, i don't freakin care haha
i have to be honest, this is NOT one of my favorite classes... i am just praying to pass.

as for my sewing, i'm on day 3 of painting the little house, and i'll probably be able to finish it in a couple of days:


still only doing about a thousand steps a day in the power-walking.. but i am starting to feel that it is simply easier to get from start to finish (without sweating my brains out), so i guess i am getting stronger BH :)

shalom - Ulla/e. & co.

constitutional: 1,243 steps

 i worked from around noon to 10 at night. but no complaints, it is DONE.... the paper was on the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974...
i also managed to get my sewing breaks and constitutional..... yes, finished paper but must stay SANE at  the same time.

now i must rest.
shalom - Ulla/e. & co.

constitutional: 1,141 steps