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Expansion
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At the moment, I seem to be in an expansion mode. Not in terms of gaining weight, but in that I seem to be hungering for new ideas and new knowledge. Example: I've signed up (no pun intended) for online ASL courses. I've always been interested in sign language, and always wanted to learn it, but it's only now that I've gotten things together to actually start.
I know that ASL should really be learned from a competent instructor; without feedback, I may be signing very badly. My college offers good courses, but I just can't fit them it with my own work and family life. So I'll just work on getting some vocabulary and receptive understanding, and go from there.
I'm trying to learn classical guitar as well, although my practicing has decreased a lot since mid-semester. I'm also getting solid plans together for how to tackle some old stuff which has been hanging over my head since I got my degree. There is a lot of data from my last experiments that never got published, and I don't feel like I can look my advisor in the face until it is done. I know it sounds silly, but it's a significant mental burden. I was a pretty lousy grad student, and actually getting that data published would make me feel as though I wasn't a complete fuckup at it.
My older son's charter homeschool wants me to teach a weekly science elective to their 3rd-5th graders. It sounds like fun, and it would satisfy some professional development requirements.
I'm also trying to learn Flash, dabbling with Cocoa programming, and going to weekly archery lessons with my older son.
Wheee!
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