What a week

Been a busy week. Didn’t have time to post until now, but Tuesday was truly awe inspiring. I love technology! I was able to watch the all inauguration coverage via CNN/Facebook in one window while doing work in another. (Actually several others.) I think everyone in our office was doing the same thing. The people I work with are both foreign and domestic. Represented in our group are Kenya, Ghana, India, Pennsylvania, and the WV counties of Grant, Harrison, Marion, Mingo and Preston. (I’ll leave it to you to determine which of those places is the most foreign.) From all appearances, everyone in the group was happy on Tuesday.

Among the projects I’m working on right now are some cool online courses—most recently, an companion animal science course. What a fun project for an animal lover like me! (One of those talented graphic designers I work with has created the cutest graphics for it!) Another cool course is an intro to film which also has stellar graphics thanks to another of our wonderful graphic designers. The historical geology course has been going on for a while. It’s a little different that most—the course content is the textbook for the course. The illustrations that are included were all drawn by the author and are outstanding! Interesting and diverse subject each with their own design challenges. This is why i love my work!

Outside of that, I managed to design a poster for our upcoming ACT 2 Theatre Co. show, SYLVIA by A.R. Gurney. Director Rex Kelch will let me know today whether it’s a go or not. We have auditions today at 2:00 and again tomorrow at the same time. Information about all that is at the ACT 2 website. (Yes. I’m auditioning.)

The Landmark Studio has in interesting show scheduled early in February—THIEF RIVER by Lee Blessing. More information about that is at the Landmark website.

RENT, school edition, is playing now at Fairmont State University. Performed by the Fairmont Town and Gown Youth Company. Director Charlie Dillon has once again managed to inspire a group of talented kids to give it their all. The cast came from 7 different high schools from 3 counties. A note in the program from Dean of the School of Fine Arts, Peter Lach, says that this program is a part of an initiative called the Center of Arts Engagement. “As a part of that initiative, we will create a Conservatory which will offer instruction in Art, Music and Theatre to area youth and non-college adults.” An insert in the program indicates that Charlie will soon be teaching 2 Intro to Theatre Arts classes for junior high and high school as a part of this initiative.

Goodbye 2008, Hello 2009

I’m not much of a resolution person. I usually make one—not to make any resolutions. So as soon as I’ve made it, I’ve broken it. But I do a have some goals for this year.

2008 had its good and bad points. The baddest was finding out I have diabetes. But, once I found out it was easy enough to go back to a low carb way of eating. And now I make more of an effort to get a walk in nearly every day. So far progress is good. I went from an A1c of 13 in August, to 11 in September, to 7.1 in December. Not bad for only 4 months. So the goal now is to get it to 6 or lower.

Of course, I hope for a good role or two to play this year. But I have so much going on between work and WVTC and “extracurricular” projects that I intend to be fairly picky about what I choose to do. I’ll discuss the other stuff as the year goes along.

That’s another goal—to blog more. Actually, to write more, in general.