This week at school

All summer long, I have been plagued with QC, Huey, and Sonya trying to help
me on the computer. They would lay in front of the monitor and push the
keyboard off the desk, lay on the keyboard, try to climb on the monitor (a
think flat screened thing), knock the speaker off the desk (the other is
carefully hidden from them, I hope), and lay on the book case and stick
their noses and paws into whatever I was working on. Since I'm taking three
survey courses this semester, I will be on the computer a lot.

Well, As of Monday, no cats on the desk. Strange, I didn't do anything in
particular to chase them off. Tuesday, the same, and so on through the
week. I had to read about 200 pages of text and take notes which I do on
the computer since my handwriting is bad enough to confuse a doctor. No
cats helping out, only Rob and Amanda wanting to turn off all the lights so
that the lights won't glare on the TV while they watch America's got Talent.
Great. Well I got the work done anyway, and took my first quizzes today.
Did ok, I think.

I talked to the head of the math department about the math teacher who gave
me so many problems last semester. I wasn't the first to complain about
him, though I did tell him some stuff that hadn't come out before. I found
out that one of the other students, who got As for all the tests and did all
the homework, got a B for her final grade. That is even more unfair than
what he did to me. The guy is on probation for his conduct and will be
fired if the department gets more complaints. John, you could probably get
a job here teaching math if you want. One of his students told us that he
brought up Shania Twain, which is how he started with us last semester.

I am the only white person in my African American history class. I
introduced myself as the token white, when we were doing introductions. The
class was laughing with me, but I thought the teacher was going to come over
her desk and pinch my head off. We'll start digging into history on
Tuesday. I'm rather excited about it. Same with ceramics. I've never used
a pottery wheel before and am really excited about getting to design and
make my own mugs, bowls, and dishes and such. We've agreed that we want a
large potato chip bowl, and I am supposed to make a coffee mug for someone
on the faculty, but I don't know what else to make. Kitty food bowls for
sure. I'm open for suggestions. Yes, the glazes should be safe for the
owners. They are safe for humans to use for food and drink. I was getting
rather propriatal about my 25 lb block of clay that I had to buy for the
class. We were told that we'd probably go through 3-4 of them. Wow, that's
a lot of mud to sling around.

Cheers and purrs for all who need them. Again, I'll probably only be able
to be on here on the weekends and holidays. I think about the various
members of the group and their owners who need support and the owners think
and purr on a regular basis for those in need.

Yowie...

Always good to see you, no matter when you 'pop in'

Pam S.