Author Archives: Susan

EDUCATION: Redeeming Values

Posted on November 15, 2004 by Susan

Oh joy of joy!  Oh lamb of great god Tunxis! There will be an opportunity to redeem my withering soul in Statistics via an extra credit project!  It’s an educational form of Catholic penance, I would say; the extra rosary … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Conflicting Time & Space

Posted on November 14, 2004 by Susan

Time does not always move in a gentle flow towards future, but often rides a bumpy road of perceived expectations.  And time, the space in which it lives and rolls ahead contains a myriad of possibilities that may (or may … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Sidestreets and Strawberry Shortcuts

Posted on November 14, 2004 by Susan

Odd, following a list to prove I’m organized.  More, I think, to get things done.  The mind, when left to its own devices, tends to watch the movies that it loves the best and so a map proves at the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: To Do List

Posted on November 14, 2004 by Susan

The day is led off by a letter to the dean, to seek assistance in remaining on the path I’ve picked for now, to beg for tolerant consideration of a student’s indecisive wandering ways. Then on to folding laundry, paling … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Metaphorical Snow

Posted on November 13, 2004 by Susan

Snow may be a blanket, one that covers a sleeping earth. But the early snow lays a rug upon an earth still in the midst of autumn.  It covers the dust of leaves that lay littering the floor, hangs fresh … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA & REALITY: T&S

Posted on November 13, 2004 by Susan

You want evidence of time and space? Forty-five minutes away from me there is no snow.  Here it is winter; there it is fall.  But it is happening simultaneously as well. I know this for fact–even though the man who … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION & REALITY: Moh’s Scale

Posted on November 12, 2004 by Susan

We’ve heard, of course, both predictions:  Mellowed by age, vs. The same, only more so.  But what does happen to our personality as we get older, accumulate more experience and knowledge, burn our fingers on the matches of life? Personally, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING:

Posted on November 11, 2004 by Susan

He’d put it off so long that when he finally planned and gave in to its ways it was, he thought, something of a disappointment.  Like Fairbanks in the winter or the monsoon season of the island seas, there was … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Light in Time and Space

Posted on November 11, 2004 by Susan

Morning brings its ambience, slowly creeping in with sunlit smiles on lawns and bushes.  Trees whose leaves had held the light in a million green cups all summer must let it sift through branches that hid themselves in dull grey … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Controlling Time

Posted on November 10, 2004 by Susan

With my most recent brush with the facts of life–time uncommitted is approximately equal to but opposite in result to time committed elsewhere (as evidenced by my reluctant donation of time to the study of statistics), comes other realities:  Sometimes … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Comic Books

Posted on November 10, 2004 by Susan

As everything that was is the basis for new media, comic books are a good example of the combination of graphics and text to demonstrate a multi-media effect, even though all is essentially visual. Have come within the last few … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Perspective

Posted on November 10, 2004 by Susan

Another year behind me–how many more ahead to lure with the unknown, the undiscovered yet, the could be’s and the maybe’s? When faced with decades, years, months or even hours, do we plan or do we blindly run the rut … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Perception of the Paths

Posted on November 9, 2004 by Susan

Good enough day today; sunshine-warmed crisp autumn air to clear the mind of dreary rainy thoughts and moods of moonlight-streaked black woods. Going forward, look behind at where I’ve been and up ahead the path still goes forever twisting deeper … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: Giving Up

Posted on November 8, 2004 by Susan

Really, really feel ashamed of myself.  Gave up and walked out on a stats exam because I totally blanked out.  Stress rising brought me up out of my seat, out the door.  Head hung.  Never been a quitter–age somehow has … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Mood

Posted on November 7, 2004 by Susan

Is it honesty, or simple lack of maturity and control that makes it impossible to cover up one’s bad humour?  My mother often quoted to me this poem–I thought it had a special meaning for her, but upon reflection, see … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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