No secrets 1999

Well, I have houseguests. Since the servers at school will be down tomorrow, I put the pages for the class I'm teaching up here on my site. Now my students will be visiting my personal site. It's kinda like having your parents over.

Note to myself:
try to refrain from talking about politics, sex and booze for a few days. Oh, and don't be a pottymouth.

Note to my students:
I moved the javascript examples up here as well

[***Question as of September 2003: Does that .../archive/240/ content still exist at all?***]

F/X Reunion and finishing the degree 1998

Worked a short day (5 hours) and then jumped through my last academic bureacratic hoop (at least as a student, I'm sure they'll have a new set for teachers). I turned in the final final final binding version of my project report and I am now officially done with my masters degree. They still have to send me a little piece of paper, but I am now Dinah P. Sanders, M.L.I.S.

Had dinner at Fil's house along with Deb, Chris & Tori and we planned F/X: the Reunion. If you were a member of the big happy family of clubgoers and employees, send your name, email and snailmail addresses to [filco.com] and get on the list for an invitation. Better dig out that old black card. You've got until February to decide what to wear. (I'll be doing the website soon - watch this space).

My ISP is misbehaving badly, if you don't hear from me except from work, that's why. Grrr.

Compromises 1998

Got email today from number one on my list of people I lost touch with who I'd love to connect with again. :)
Hi, Elf! Missed you.

Wound up working an extra hour. And missing the bus. *sigh* Still only got home 40 minutes later than I would have if I had a working car, but it got me thinking, sitting in chilly suburbia, about what I could do with those 40 minutes. I could work them, assuming I have a client to bill them to which I currently do, and make enough to make a car payment. And I could stop at the store with them now and then to get the ingredients with which I could spend that time making myself a lunch instead of buying it. Or I could spend them working on Inkspot which might make me some money if I invested more time in it. So, since I do not live or work in a true urban area with flexible public transit, since it's getting cold, since my knee hurts a bit from all this walking, since I can work out a way to afford it, I am abandoning the moral high ground and reconsidering internal combustion. Sorry, Peter. How about if you teach me to ride a bike again next spring when, I hope, my knee can handle it?

Need to rest my arm before typing more, but watch this space for a revised version of my thesis with extra citations to back up my wild claim that the web needs design documentation.

...Hot Bath Interlude...

Followed by a whole bunch of writin' and citin' leading to the revised final draft of my report and bibliography

Bibliography in Word [links removed when post migrated into Typepad in 2004]
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Report in Word
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I am really tired now. The alarm is going off in 6 hours. I hope that is enough to get me through another long day...

Final Draft 1998

[Used to have links to my thesis final draft document in 3 formats here.]

Sent the report to my advisors. Thanks again everyone.

Good Indian food with good friends and a soak in a hot tub and fun conversation. Feeling loads better thanks to Eric, Robert & Seth.
:)

I think Dreamweaver plays with your column widths. Grrrr. I swear all these pages were supposed to be a maximum width of 600 pixels. I just changed this one to 620. It better stick...

Writing Exercise For School 1980

Dinah Sanders
Core Group

Dear Olivia [one of our teachers],

Our teacher is too irresponsible and seems to have gone insane. He does not seem to be able to withstand the strain of his position. He has lost what control he may have had over his classes. Let me quote him; Scott Stewart brought his breakfast into class and Lisa Fassl complained about him not sharing; Jack [Mingo] said: "If only Jesus were here he could make this into enough food for the multitudes."

He opens his class by leaning out the door and saying: "Hey kids, guess what time it is?" To which his class and several other classes responded; "It's Howdy Doody time!"

During class he said:
"I've been getting off on your journals."
"Chuckle, chuckle."
"Can you get me a date with Toni Tenielle?"
"I used to play keyboards and listen to Beach Boys records."
"I'm sorry, you'll have to get enlightenment from yourself."
"I have enemies everywhere, enemies and spies."
"I shove it in and it gives me money."
"Whip it."
"I wanna hold your rat."

The record speaks for itself. I rest my case.
[signed] Dinah Sanders

[Below this in another set of much better handwriting] Would you like to be on the personnell [sic] committee to review this man's employment. O

[at the bottom of the page in my writing] Just kidding, folks

Another Weird Hippy School Class 1979

This doesn't work. I want to remember my dreams but if my alarm doesn't go off I never get up.

I really want to be in the class but all the dreams I'm having now are too personal. Oh...SHIT!

Typical Teenage Post 1979

Day: Deanna and Eric both know how I feel about [boy o' the moment]. And I feel relieved to know that I can talk to Deanna about it. I will try to tell [boy o' the moment] tomorrow.

Eng. A. is AWFUL.

_______________________
I will remember my dreams
_______________________

Night: [blank]

More Past Life Stuff 1979

I remembered that Alice* lived in Albert, New Jersey [which doesn't seem to exist, either that or Google doesn't know of it, which seems unlikely in the extreme].

*Alice is the life I was in before this one.

The Silly Things they do at Hippy Schools 1979

Hello, welcome back! [This was the first entry after 5 blank days in this diary] Leaving you downstairs wasn't very nice of me. Sorry.

G'night. [crossed out]

Oh yea. I recalled past lives today.
1893-1964 - Alice [The name of my favorite teacher. What a stunning coincidence.]
Around 1700 - A pioneer man with a wife and a cabin in the woods [One of my favorite books as a kid: Little House in the Big Woods]
1500 - A cart horse [Favorite toys: a bunch of plastic animals, among them two cart horses (which I just remembered I had named Columbia and Victoria)]
? AD - A panther [A dramatic story involving which takes place in the above mentioned book]
B.C. - A short-lived hunting dog. [And I'd just finished reading The Plague Dogs]

G'NIGHT

[It'll be interesting to see if later entries in journals reflect my growing scepticism.]