Just Tripping Along The Freakazoid

ok - still working on trying to collect all the music references for the show here - http://defyinggravity.wetpaint.com/page/Music still need a lot of work, if anyone wants to join in. Rainy, rainy - hopefully it will be clear tomorrow - going to Philadelphia to do history stuff, Liberty Bell, Franklin's museum, etc. Attempting to get things in order around the house before the start of the week, slowly getting into the swing of things. Ex stopped by, had a discussion about a number of things, ended up making me reflect a bit about where I am... poof, didn't need muddled thought along with everything else. Ah well - one step forward and one step at a time, well unless doing the bunny hop, then it would be two steps forward. Hmm, maybe I should try the Mambo next ;p On a side note - I would love to learn how to dance, if anyone wants to take dancing lessons with me - I be stepping all over toes, but I think it would be fun.... Got into the GIS class to audit at the one college...

Wow - next week the college courses start and the online high school. Sept. 7 the regular high school starts - I am still shaking my head wondering where the summer went. I still have 3 posts about defying gravity to type up and post and a couple from the New Orleans trip (awww I miss that place :P) I am hoping this weekend to finally be caught back up, yeah I think I will get caught up before the craziness of the semester starts - I'll be rushed and heavy in september and october but then things even out after.... I am trying to get into a GIS class to audit for the one community college - it is a pain in the arse - now I gotta get my unofficial transcripts - sigh - i hope I can do this - it will help my future and be interesting... Tomorrow I go to Cumberland for faculty orientation and I finish up the GIS/GPS lessons I have been doing for the bridging students - which means after tomorrow I get to breath for a few days ;) especially Friday Still working on the defying gravity...

Wow, I can not begin to accurately describe my time in New Orleans (Nola, the crescent city, etc.) - I have learned so much, both about the city and its culture and about the content of the conference. Both have been good to me and made this a worthwhile experience. It is not easy taking a week out of your life, whether for personal, business or a mix, especially as this is the end of summer and I have onoly a week until the craziness of the school year begins (which I can barely believe, wow, summer is.... gone) That said, I have to say, without a doubt, I must come here again. I have done a lot and maximized my time, I have been walking a lot, but there is still so much to see. I hope when i come again, it is with others because that would give me an entirely different awareness as this city has a unique character that it is wonderful and even more so shared. To react to something and to watch others react. I am working on a few stories and ideas as well as work related materials...

OK first day of the two day workshop on Arcview/GIS basics, head is swimming but lots of great stuff, I mean wowzers - good ideas for the school, neat ideas for my college classes and even story ideas hehehe - man I am sooooo loving this, life is all about the wonder and I am getting it full on - wheewwwwww (ok, I got a Tujaques Lemonade earlier and yum and loving it hehe - my brain is on spin overload :)

ok so much to talk about, but a little thing for now - this is so... odd and memorable... I am working on walking the French Quarter, so I am walking down one of the side streets, just me around and I stop - on the opposite side of the street is a hawk, yes, not a pigeon or other city bird, a hawk. And it has some white feathers in its beak... I also see a few in the ground, ok, well it is scared a little as a car drives by and it goes over the steel iron post fence, but still there... curious, I stand and watch... then, a pigeon comes in, it is injured and kinda fluttering around, well, the hawk squeezes between the posts and pounce, there goes the pigeon... I recorded a little movie and all, finally someone walks down and the hawk flys away, with the pigeon, WOW - I have not seen that in the "wild" and to see it in the middle of the FQ - ok, wow... :P kinda a great analogy for my time here, and I am only on day two, wow.....

It has been allllll quiet and as soon as I am coming here, three named storms bearing down on the area - sheeshhhhhhhhhh well I have my umbrella so there....

Ok, I noticed a few people are finding my blog because they are searching for Defying Gravity music - well on the wiki I am trying to coordinate - we will be adding a music page - it is still a work in progress - but you can check it out here - navigate to the music page and please add to it - it needs help ; ) defyinggravity.wetpaint.com/

I am in Nola, the Crescent City, New Orleans for a GIS conference. I have much to say - I took a walking cocktail tour and it was all about the history and it was awesome - have lots of story ideas and just whew, ok - gotta go do a little work and all - catch ya laters - sooooo much here, I am in awe

ok this is part of a ramble/gory guide at defyinggravity.wetpaint.com/page/Gory+Episode+Guide+-+01X02+-+Natural+Selection --------- Ok – still loving the show – starting with the title – I teach historical geology, biology, paleontology, environmental science and such so know a little about Natural Selection – and I got to admit, applying that concept to episode kinda is interesting because it could make you reinterpret a few things that happened in episode. I still like the flashbacks, although still trying to get use to them. At least now starting to be able to follow the stories in the flashbacks a bit more. And my favorite scene and flashback by far is the one in the pool when Christina Cox comes over and uses non verbal expressions to taunt, tease, confirm and pry information from Laura Harris in an EXCELLENT exchange between the two actresses and shows words are sometimes over rated. The voiceovers, I am torn. I will say I kinda overlooked them some the first time and with the se...

Ok - I posted this over on the wiki - http://defyinggravity.wetpaint.com/page/Gory+Episode+Guide+-+01X01+-+Pilot But that contains an anal-retentive in depth look at the episode and lots of spoilers - below is my ramble review thoughts - also this is just for episode 1 - episode 2 coming soon ---- OK so The pilot – I will say right now, I like the series thus far. Is it like a major roller coaster, yeah, it has ups, downs and flatlines. I think right now it is more like the wooden roller coasters than the mega corkscrew, metal, gravity defying new fangled coasters, but that is ok. I laughed out loud at a lot of scenes, good thing it is only my cat around that gave me weird looks. So general stuff - the flashback format takes some getting use to – I am starting a timeline to try and keep track. I like flashbacks, use them in my writing, but whoa… sometimes I got lost as to what came where – especially one scene with Donner and Zoe, I misplaced it and that was bad. Also, I watched this ...

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