Seattle Adventures and Syllabi

Well it didn't rain the whole time I have been in Seattle until we decided to go camping. Wow did it start poring this morning and we all got soaked! But it was beautiful and I love the trees and THE OWLS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM. Here is just a bit of what I have been up too lately...

I found this amazing tiger and wanted to share it with you. I want one. I also want to be the lady in pink.

Here is my Grandpa!

Who misses you? Buddy!

Royal in his new home, he very much likes the orange chair.

THE ADVENTURES IN HOTEL PUBLIX

One night we went ghost hunting in an abandoned hotel Jack and Tiff are making a movie in.

Heather got married. 

Don't these ladies I'm with look so beautiful! Mom, Jane and Sherry are glowing.

Well now that I have caught you up I have to go back to writing my syllabi for the two classes I will be teaching and I'm really feeling nervous about. I talked to Kristin and she told me that I can just pretend to be a teacher and dress in a teacher outfit and that will make me feel better. She says that everyone is just pretending anyway. I like to think of it that way.  So whenever you are feeling nervous just pretend that you already know exactly what you are doing and everything is going to be great. Como va tu clase de espanol? Que estudias? Literatura? Te mando mill besos...

Where I've been since I last saw you

Birthday Dinner with you

The sweet sweet English ladies

Duncan and Clan

We got these crazy pedicures that are big over there. Fish eat the dead skin off of your feet...

This was a sculpture above the place where a saint was murdered in the Cathedral in Canterbury

Sisters on Different Seasides

Today I woke up and missed you so much. I think it may have had something to do with the fact that I went to read under the water tower where we ate lunch together a year ago. That doesn't seem so long ago. I know people always say things like this, but I'm going to say it anyways. Think about it. All the things that have happened, and yet that water tower felt much the same. You graduated with a masters, you moved across the country, you finished a thesis...the list goes on. When I think about all those things, I feel like it has been a long year full of events, but when I think of eating a sandwich and ginger ale with you, it feels like a minute has passed--only where did you go?
I wonder if we passed the house I'm living in now? I wonder if the Bard kids we bumped into along the way were people I got to know that year? I wonder if a year from now won't feel so long ago again.
This upcoming school year is scaring me more than any other I've entered. So many things are coming to a decisive pinnacle. It's wonderful and inspiring and yet the stress is debilitating at times. I suppose you felt like this last year with the end of SVA looming, and I suppose it all worked out quite well for you. I mean, look at where you are now. You're teaching photo classes. I'm going to keep using you as my inspiration--like I always do.