Moving

Sarah & I are making banana bread today.

I healthy activity after my headache inducing battle royal with the business dept at TTU. I ended up paying a bill I didn't actually owe in order to not be dropped from classes because they couldn't get my bill correct by the deadline. I fail to see how that is my (or any other student's) problem. Despite hours (yes: hours) on the phone I finally caved (as I'm sure they hoped I would) and paid the bill 30 minutes prior to the deadline. Alas, alack. Their system must be changed as it is inappropriate to blame and subsequently charge students for your own departments inability to correctly apply scholarships and waivers. Annoying.

Sarah & I have been walking in the mornings which has been nice. Hopefully we'll be able to continue during the summer. I have yet to hear from anyone interested in taking an acting course in the summer at the high school or the middle school. The economy, it seems, has hit hard everywhere. I'm waiting until Monday - the official 1st day of the courses - before I lose all hope. Things look bleak.

On a good note I've been hired as a blogger and will be able to post blogs beginning in June. The blog will be about being a new father while being a current doctoral student 1000 miles away from family. How will I cope? What will I do? One thing's for certain - there will be ample tales of my daily adventures in fatherdom. Very excited to begin work. Hopeing that the blog will have the added bonus of providing reflection time for my new role as a parent.

1st day of classes today. While I won't need to physically attend any courses as I am taking an independent study in playwriting (one meeting every 2 weeks) it does require me to write and write and write. I am, however, very excited about the process and have already started work on the project. (I've written about 50 pages... but lost 20 to an inadvertent file deletion thanks to Windows Live Mesh). More info here: http://playproject1.blogspot.com/

More later I'm sure.
That - for the moment - is the Texas Perspective.
KYLE

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Computers and such

Sarah has finally had it with her XP install running sluggishly and agreed to let me install Linux. I've opted for Ubuntu and it seems to be running well. I'm going to secretly install XP via virtualbox (if she needs it) but I won't tell her until she fights a little with actually learning how to do some things.

At any rate... the computer is already connected wirelessly. I've changed the look of the computer (sistine chapel background, anybody) as well as the color scheme to make it more familiar. I put the computer, folder, and recycle bin on the desktop as icons for familiarities sake. I hope that it "feels" right to her.

Also, her CD/DVD drive is dying, yes: dying. So, I'll be ripping an .iso of a workout dvd she used so that she can watch it via the harddrive rather than from the disk drive itself (which frequently just gives out).

Almost done with the install and the messing about with the system to make sure its working. All that's left is to put her files on the computer. Easy enough.

Is it a bad thing that this is *fun* for me?

Grad

I graduated. I'm done (with one degree) and moving steadily onto the next. What fun, dear friends, what fun.