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I'm Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
You thought I was gone.,didn't you??!!! Ha ha ha ha ! I love how I blog as if some one was reading this crap!!!!
Yeeeeeeeeah, right!!!

Sooooooo, I have been a way for a few weeks,away from this blog that is, and the class this was for is over now. School has ended for now as well and I am in full summer mode!!! The weather is burnin' up out side and says are lookin' sunny!!! Getting out of THESIS writing mode was a good deal for me! woooh!
The bad news is I am not sure what I will being doing in terms of summer work, and I am still working out my loans for the fall semester. But, I am optimistic my summer job will work out and I will get to teach this summer...And loans are a drag, but hopefully that will all be worked out too... And then, in the fall it's back to school to finish one more year of grad school!!! Gosh, can you believe it!!!?? I dream of our graduation day getting a job after I 'm done with school.. Oh to have a room at an actual school for my potential art class... I would make it look and feel beautiful and welcoming for my students and hopefully create with them a space for all to be creative,learn and have fun!

But for now it's still summer!!! And I have been waiting for this!!! A looooong time!!!

Things I will do, wanna do, or might do this summer:
Picnic
Have beach days!
Go to Michigan?
Cook, cook, cook!
Bake pies!!!
Run?!
Throw parties!
Summer reading list!!!
Eat at new restraints!!!
See my little cousins in July!!!
Go to California!!!
Work on my thesis???!!!(Yes!!!)
See Luke and Nita in June!!!
Celebrate Joel's B-day!!! Yay!
Clean out my art supplies...?
Go to flee markets!!!!!
Paint!!!!
Make more teatheart...
Apply to, get in and do renegade!!!
Fix up my website...(guuuuhhhlllll...?)
Hang out with Jen! Yeah!!!!
Clean out my computer...(ick.)
See movies (like twilight!!! Ahhhhh!!!)
Go to movies int he parks too..
Go camping again!!!
Go to a Revinia show...
Farmer's markets every week!!!
Water parks, woooooh!!!

Some of these I am already doing, some I have wanted to be doing and hopefully will
And... there's more that I can't think of at the moment....But, I will.

So, the photos are forms of inspiration for me...and for you too look at and enjoy, if your actually reading this, who ever you are!

hey all you MAT ers!!!

Today is the final day of Cyberpedagogy!!!!!
It's kinda sad,because it was a fun class, but at the same time I am sooooooo glad this semester is over!!!
Man!!!
I think the best part of this particular class was that we got the chance to get to know each other a lot better through all the projects we did. And, when we did get to know each other, it turned out that everyone was even cooler than I thought! Not saying I didn't think you guys were cool before but, ya know all I am saying is now I am really a fan of all of yous! The projects we did gave us a chance to express ourselves, and be a little creative. I have to say, I did actually learn a lot in this class! I kinda thought I would be miserable the whole time because the class was technology based, but I think I have really made some strides! I for one am proud of me! I have a website now!!! C' mon, me ?! A website?!! Seriously!!!
Last but not least, the class was great also because of our wonderful instructors!
Awwwwwww!
Well, if you couldn't taste the sugar in my writing before,now you really should be able to! But seriously, I it it was a cool class with cool people!

So, does this mean this will be my last post ever??? Hummm, that is a good question! I don't know how much I will keep up with this blogy-blog, although it has been fun at times, I'm just not sure it's my style...

Well, we'll see.

I can tell you I will be bringing some delicious Carrot-mango-apple-banana-ginger smoothies to class, home made of course, and perhaps some delicious guacamole and chips too! Oh, Yum-o!!!
And now about the website readings for the past few weeks... I really enjoyed going through the eyelevel.si.edu blogg from the Smithsonian American Art museum! The first thing i did was go to the about section and already i learned something new right away1 The history of how people in the early 1800's would carry around portraits of their loved one's eyes was really interesting. And I thought it was a neat way to get a conversion going onthe blog and draw a lot of different meaning from the title of their site. I also liked the ask Joan of art section1 What a good idea1 I think I AM gonna ask something...I don't know what yet,but I like the concept of exchanges of information from a site like that. i also just thought the whole site was assessable. It didn't seems huffy r boring they way some museum blogs do and it was neat that such a site would come from the Smithsonian. Now I want to go there even more I have not been to D.C since my 8th grade trip! Maybe I would appreciate it more now... Next: Mess hall. This place is cool I want to go there! I never even heard of it! The end. Moving on: www.caconline.org Well I finally learned more about this whole pop up arts stuff that I have seen around the loop. I think it is awesome that we have that kind of stuff in our down town. I have always felt like Chicago is a welcoming city to the arts in many respects. It makes us more interesting and colorful. We are also lucky to have organizations like CAC. Some cities really don't thrive on the arts like we do here... Woooh us, Chi-town!
Ok, see ya later, blog readers! Or, see ya never! Ha ha, sorry, just kidding! I kid, I kid....

it's been I while since I made a post....

Ok, so not to be whinny, but I am gonna be. I just wanna say, being home sick is laaaaaaaame! I feel like I am going to fall behind in C&I, the biggest monster class ever, and my soar throat is a real pain right now. Overall, I think the stress and work load of the end of the semester got to my immune system...

I am actually aloud to just complain on this thing???
Here's a picture I found on the internet of "soar throat"
Ha ha...it's funny.

So anyway, with no voice and a soar through, I figured since I can't talk, I might as well do something constructive and be an active "blogger" today. Hummmm, maybe for once
I'll actually post something with meaning....almost.

Can I just say something really honest on this blog????
Ok.
I'm frustraited.
Yeah, yeah poor little grad student right?
I know!!! Not everyone even gets to go to grad school, so who am I to complain?
Believe me, I know. I think about this constantly. I am really thankful to be attending grad school and learning so much. I remind myself of this when ever I complain.
But, I'm not really that frustrated with school. I'm frustrated with my self.

Ok this is the honest part,
sorry cyberped,
but I'm frustrated because I just don't have the lust or appreciation
for technology everyone else around me seems to have. I wish I could say I did
because it was brought to my attention that learning to use the
digital technology we have been practicing in our class is
going to be really important for my teaching and
ability to relate to my students. But, I don't feel creative when
I use technology. I feel creative when I make things by hand!
My students will undoubtedly be more familiar with technology than me. So, if I don't get on board and at least learn to love what's digital, how will I create curriculum that is meaningful to students? Is my problem that I am just more interested in making things by hand and inviting students to get in touch with their ability to make things?

Sometimes, for some reason, people say, "oh, it's cool that your so analog". It like a novelty to be an analog!! People can be so attached to their technology that they don't seem to appreciate things or remember the time before, oh say, I-phones.....

So, I'm caught between; "we have all this technology available and we should utilize it", and "I just can't get excited about it but maybe I'll have to...."
So, that's why it sucks being "analog" at times. I just feel like I hardly ever know
how to do ANYTHING interesting with computers or anything technological.
When I do sort of figure things out,
technical stuff always seems tedious and boring to me.

So here's a funny picture of "technology". It's all old and out of date like the way I think...

Well,that was a lot of bitching. And for that, I sincerely apologize to ANYONE who may have actually read this. I also hope I didn't offend anyone who LOVES technology. Or, any robots for that matter. I'm sorry, robots, I do not hate YOU.
I want to end this post on a positive note though:
I will do that by saying this time last year, I had never made a PowerPoint in my life! That's right, I didn't do it in High School because my school was way too low tech for that and some how I got by without doing it in college. So last fall for John's class
I finally had to learn.
I've made a lot more PowerPoints since then, and now I am ok at dealing with the program and I kind of actually enjoy making the presentations! My next step is to learn how to do some of those fancy animated PowerPoint tricks so I can impress my students, a least a little bit. Maybe not impress,but keep up with...

And then after that, world domination!!!! Whahahahaha!
Kidding...

I leave this post with a quote by one of my all time favorite heroes Erykah Badu;

"Analog girl in a digital world..."

<--- Can you find Grimace???

This is the food we ate--and it was free!

April 19th 2010
Earth Day celebration Humboldt Park Earth Team style!!!

I met grimace that day, ya'll!!!

The Earth Day Celebration was great! We mulched and trash picked-up our little hearts out!

The real Earth Day is April 24th!!
So, do something green in your community if you can!!!
xoxox

Here is something I DID make. Not as cool, but kinda funny.
Yay for making things in our classes!

Here is something I didn't make but it sure is cool. Jean, I put this up here for you!

Also, just some thoughts on my presentation and the blogs

Hi.
Again.

I just thought I would mention I really enjoyed the Chicagoartmagazine site that we went over the other night. In case you couldn't tell...
I felt like it was actually something I would look at again! While I know a lot of the sites we visit are really good for resources,I personally just don't see my self looking at them actively, in less I have reason to. But, I liked chicagoartmagazine because it just had interesting articles. Hum, maybe it's because I am just more of a magazine kind of person... IDK.

Also, thanks to everyone who was there when I presented in Cyberped. You guys put up with my presentation and my slow tech. abilities... Tee hee!

Other than that, I hope everyone is having a decent week and getting work done, if need be. I for one am truly starting a count down to the last day of this semester!!!! Ugh!