Ramblings of a Bald Man

Well, got home and everything…extremely tired of course, but I am functioning. My place is kind of a mess at the moment with mail strewn all over as I’ve opened it and left it to deal with later. I also never really unpacked from the last trip as I will be leaving soon again. The plan for tomorrow is to get off work, maybe go workout, get some food, make sure everything is ready to go, go to sleep, wake up, drive to Kansas. It’s gonna be like 11hrs according to RandMcNally.com but I’m also going to have to make stops to find food and just get out and move around. So I wouldn’t be surprised if it did take that long. Found out that Kat is quite close to my destination so the plan is to get left in the wee hours in the morning to go hang out with her first and then meet up with Bente later. Next weekend I get to run around in the woods, duck behind fallen trees and brush and shoot at people. In layman’s terms they call this paintballing. I was talking to Bleu the other day and he told me he’s not into that cause it’s too realistic and violence is over-glorified in this country. I agree with him that violence gets too much spotlight, however, I feel like I have a handle on reality in that department and still love to go shoot people in the woods. Maybe this has something to do with me growing up with guns, learning to shoot when I was 4, and getting a BB gun when I was 5. Maybe this also has something to do with me being taught to respect firearms and not be foolish and stupid with them. Or maybe it’s just the way I am.

Tomorrow we’re also having another Technology Workshop which means lots of setup and tear-down. They’re really good and informative though so I’m glad to help with them. We’re also working on surveying the entire faculty in reference to classroom technology, how we can improve, what they would like to see, what they don’t like, etc , etc. It’s been a lot of fun. I love just hanging out with some of the profs around here. They have so many interesting stories about places they’ve been, things they’ve seen, things they’re thinking about. They have so many perspectives on so many things that are so different from my worldview. This afternoon I was having a chat with Dan and Chin came walking by and decided to join the crowd. So afterwards I chatted with Chin and it was almost completely in spanish. I’d have to say I kinda surprised myself because I don’t really do that kind of stuff very often. I sometimes wish I was back in junior high or high school with those couple friends I could just randomly talk spanish to just to annoy teachers or people around us. Those were the days when practicing with people wasn’t really something I had to make an effort to do.