My camp finishes this Wednesday afternoon and I have grandiose plans of doing NOTHING for the next month and a half. I feel a little guilty when my co-workers inquire about my vacation plans for the next six weeks. I feel like I should say, “I’m traveling here, going there, and doing these exciting things.” Instead, I’ll be at home watching the latest seasons of Battlestar, The 4400, Project Runway, and whatever shows and movies come to mind. In addition, I’ll be reading and watching instructional videos for: Wordpress, HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Lightroom, iMovie, iPhoto, Word, and Excel. Exciting stuff, I know, but hey… they’re interesting to me. So, I should be cavorting to warm, exotic places this winter. Instead, I’ll be at home learning about geeky stuff, and I’m happy about it.
I’ve also got all those pictures from the Philippines that I’m procrastinating on looking through. I experimented in shooting in RAW, but now don’t know what to do with them! I know I’ve got to get online and get some ideas about developing a good work flow for photos. Right now, it’s on the back burner until the end of this week. If you work in RAW, what do you do with them once you get home from vacation?
Now I’m off to watching more things on the big TV!!!! I didn’t think so back then, but I WILL tell you this now… It was worth the money!
January 15th, 2008 at January 15, 2008 - 1:24 pm
Big TVs rock….
And in fairness, you already did your exotic warm locale galavanting. Looking forward to seeing the pictures.
January 15th, 2008 at January 15, 2008 - 7:39 pm
That is one long vacation, or are they holidays (holy days) as others English speaking countries like to use. I get a lot of grief about this and a few other English differences from my students. Dinner versus Supper is a good one, especially with Christians–”The Last Supper” was not the last dinner. Ah…the joys of teaching a language with all of its oddities.
January 15th, 2008 at January 15, 2008 - 11:25 pm
I’ll be on holiday, or vacation, or whatever you want to call it. The time when one doesn’t have to work! Yah!
Speaking of supper, isn’t this also “lunch” in other parts of the world?
January 15th, 2008 at January 15, 2008 - 11:46 pm
Dinner is lunch. Well, it used to be lunch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner
I feel for my kids. I use an assortment of English texts and some are from Britain (I’d use English texts from Russia and France before I use our franchise ones) and they throw in a lot of u’s into words that the kids aren’t used to in American English (colour, neighbour, etc.). Don’t get me started on university versus college (It’s not called university football.) and ‘the’ before certain nouns (I’m going to “the” hospital or to “the” university–”the” being omitted in British English).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_differences
I think that I’m more confused than the kids most of the time.
P.S. Don’t ruin your eyes by sitting to close to that monster and watching all that glorious television. That may have hurt my eyes as a kid. I think my students will soon be suffering carpal tunnel from all their texting and game playing. However, I’ve given them a treat this winter break and showed them some of The Amazing Race episodes that were here in South Korea. They liked seeing Daejeon on the highway signs. What’s really funny is that when we play Bingo, the kindergarten kids think I speak Korean because I know the words TV and compact disk. So, some American words have worked their way into the language as has the word computer. I haven’t the heart to tell them that they aren’t Korean words.