Friday, October 10, 2008

10/10/08 embarrassing before photos of the office

I swear I'm going to clean this place up. This is about what it looked like when I skipped out of town before Memorial Day. I was planning to clean it up and get it all organized this summer but elected to do Celebration Tours instead. (Smart smart move on my part! Hindsight tells me that I made the wisest choice.) So it still has that disheveled look.

See that flat box on the floor in front of the basket of magazines? Probably not, but there is one there and inside is an Ikea file cabinet begging me to put it together. I better get to it pretty quickly because pre-registration starts next week and I need a chair for my advisees to sit in while we talk about the upcoming semester!

10/10/08 falling leaves

This is kind of a funky photo. It's of the side of the tree. I was trying to capture how blue the sky was. But look closely, you'll see I captured the blue of the sky, but I also captured a falling leaf! I definitely was not attempting to capture that, it's just a coincidence. When I got to school and emptied my book bag, I found a leaf in the book bag. Murphy's law must be running rampant right now. What are the odds of either of this leaf-catching events, much less two in the same day!

10/10/08 Moonshadow

I remember the Cat Stevens song, Moonshadow. The lyrics included "I'm being followed by a moonshadow, moonshadow, moonshadow." I liked the song, even though I had no idea what any of it meant.

Tonight I figured out what must be a moonshadow. I was walking home and there was a shadow next to me most of the way. There was an additional shadow that kept coming in and out. I finally figured out that the one constant shadow was a shadow caused by the moon! I don't think I've ever seen my shadow created by moonlight! The second shadow was caused by the street lights which was why it kept moving. As I moved into the streetlight, the shadow was behind me. As I started to walk towards the light, the shadow moved to the side and got very small; as I walked away from the light, the shadow was in front of me. I only got startled a few times. ;-)