Warm!

Yes, I am pretty excited about the temperature expected today. So excited I had to dig out a nice flower photo to go with it! It could get as warm as 86 degrees outside. I am going to go watch a new recruit play this afternoon who as the coach says is "very good"; a rather ominous yet positive description.
Things have been busy as usual here; yesterday was advising day so there were no classes. I spent the entire day working on my project for 2-D Design so I don't have to stay through my one class on Friday. The mens soccer team has another tournament this weekend and the movie "The Watchmen" comes out so this will be a very entertaining weekend!

2 for 1

Two posts are better than none, and better than one! Since the last one did not have a photo I felt compelled to add another. These are

two of my 2-D design pieces from this semester; my two latest ones are on the "wall of fame" still. I am kind of bummed that one of them is upside down on the wall, but oh well. These are made from paper, card stock, and foam board. They are not very easy to photograph either..

The top one (blue) is our Monochromatic (one color) study, and the bottom one was an Analogous study. Until our last project we were not allowed to create anything recognizable.

Another sport bites the dust

So I was strangely excited that Sterling's first Tennis match was supposed to be today. I emailed the coach to find out where they play since could be either the college or highschool..no reply. Before heading to the weekly newspaper meeting I noticed that there were no people gathered around the Tennis courts so I decided to pop into the coach's office to see if the games were cancelled. I didn't know if Tennis is one of those "fair" weather sports and it is still pretty chillly today. (After all they cancelled Baseball & Softball already due to weather - thank goodness because it was too cold to stand out there with the camera.) After a brief conversation I discovered that the Tennis season had been scrapped, for reasons unknown to me still.
Strangely this is second sport that has mysteriously disappeared since I've been here at Sterling. Womens golf vanished without a word from anyone, not even a courtesy email to the students. I just happened to be perusing the web site one day to see that it had been removed.
This College has an interesting habit of causing things and people to go away.

Busy Busy

It has been as expected a busy couple of days. Yesterday was my B-day, so we went to the Potrillo for some food and watched some Euro Cup matches. I spent the rest of the evening working on my 2-D design piece then trying to figure out what was wrong with Stir's web site. (school paper) Today was equally busy, I spent most of the afternoon actually fixing the site, then headed over the the gym for the first night of Basketball Conference Tournament. The guys team won their first round, and the ladies will play tomorrow. The evening pleasantly concluded with watching the guys play some indoor soccer, which is always lots of fun. Now I get to finally go to sleep!

All Done

Well as far as I'm concerned this weekend is over! We spent all of Saturday out and about in KS. The mens soccer team played in an indoor tournament in Hesston KS, which was a bigger town than I thought it might be. They had an interesting indoor facility with half walls but still a big square. It was ok for soccer, but terrible for spectating. You had to elbow your way up to the front of the walls or find some short people to stand behind. I still prefer grass indoor to these weird tile floors.
(That is Henry on left in photo from the tourney)

After the tournament we drove down to Wichita in search of an appropriate Birthday dinner. We settled for Red Lobster which was fun because Godfrey had never seen lobsters in a tank before. I stuffed myself with Chedder biscuits, Shrimp, and Wood Grilled Salmon. It was a Fantastic dinner!

Chilly Morning & Flickr

We will be going to Hesston for an indoor soccer tournament today. I decided to create a Flickr site to throw all my baseball photos in since there are so many of them. I will eventually add other stuff but since there is a bandwidth limit I will probably stick to baseball for now.
It would be nice to get some indoor photos today, but who knows, this place is new to me.

Flickr Site (click here!)
I added a link over there on the right so you don't have to try to find this post as it gets older.

My Advert.

Our latest project in Graphic Design was to create an advertisement that might be found in a magazine or some sort of other publication. We had the option of using a real product or making up our own. With the Digital TV transition I thought it would be fun to create something related to the old tele's and antennas now wasting away out there. I was hoping we could use a lot of image for this one, but we had to have more text. The facts are real it was kind interesting research to perform.
My color selection is kind of weird; my intentions really were to make it ugly. I figured the abnormal colors would make it stick out and cause people to read at least some part of it.