Quick Update

Origami

For my birthday, I received an Origam gift box and extra book from Mark! OMG! The gift box has printed paper (strange and elegant designs that remind me of wallpaper), gold and silver foil paper, a protractor, two 'bone' crease tools (one for making sharp creases, the other for "drawing" the crease patterns), a square board with grid and markings on it, and an origami instruction book. I'm only a little irritated that both books contain mostly diagrams that are reliant on cutting paper.

This is mostly an announcement that, as soon as I get my camera, I'll be posting picture of both the modular origami polyhedra and the new models--animals and flat geometric patterns. Man, I can't wait to get that camera!!


Teaching Math

I've been in correspondence with one of the students who had questions about exponents/roots, and after the two weeks between classes when I was helping her with that, she wrote back to say I'm a good explainer! That totally made my day!

We started conic sections on Saturday with the Circle and Ellipse. At the end of class, the teacher wrote this on the board:

"Next week: line, parabola and hyperbola."

The students had mostly never heard of hyperbola, and some never heard of parabola. The teacher said to look it up on the Internet, and I wanted to jump up and say, "MATHWORLD DOT WOLFRAM!!" but of course, that would have been inappropriate, so I didn't. Sigh.


Film Festival

One of my friends has a film in a Canadian film festival, and his film made it as far as a public showing! I'm so excited! I'm going to the showing, hopefully with a friend who is/was a major artistic-film-maker-type-person. In truth, I wonder if she'll like my friend's film, but I invited her mostly for the other films. Heh.


Army

My unit did a field exercise this past weekend. They slept outside with little form of heating for two nights. Yowza! I went on the last day to help with breakfast and tear-down. Man, I suck at moving things. I definitely need to work out. But with the army, I get a personal trainer and access to the gyms, so I'll have to make use of that. Sheesh, though, I wish I had more free time...


Art

I'm donating Boobfest III to the queer student group at the university I used to go to. At least, I'm donating a print--and I think I'll take it back at the end of the school year.

Also, that student group is planning on booking a small art gallery in one of the centres at the university--there's this glass room beside a major traffic junction and across from a Tim Horton's / food court, I think, which is totally a great place to put an art gallery.

If we end up booking it, I'll totally submit: my nude pieces; the Origami I'm proud of (goldfish in the bowl!!), including an enclosed chain of connected coloured boxes that are ordered to make a rainbow (sort of; I'm missing a real *purple* but I have this dull mauve thing); and any other artwork I deem public-worthy--which is not much, so I'll have to get busy making more, dammit! Mmm, I'm excited!


...Will update this entry with links and text formatting later.
--Charissa