Entries this day: Noon crapola

Noon

1:43pm ART Friday 17 February 2006

Just chowed in Yacht Club after teaching from 8am to 12:20pm. Same as yesterday: Fighting Goats, Fantastic Rabbits, Intermediate then Advanced opens.

The opens were not as awesome as I had hoped; we had a good language point, but not a good reason to use it. The point was describing people, but there wasn't much supporting dialogue around it. I think the students still got something out of it. Definitely more than last time I did a similar lesson.

During lunch, I saw 左貴 sitting with some peeps and then saw her sitting with another guy; I was intrigued by my feeling of jealousy. Where does that come from?

In a couple minutes I have to go back to Yacht Club to meet Kiichi, my Staff GET student.

crapola

2:41am ART Saturday 18 February 2006

Fuck. Crap. Shit. What a depressing way to end a day. I have just spent four and one half hours taking apart and putting back together the camera that I fucked up with sand in Namibia. Now it's more fucked up than it was before: the lens or light detector or some critically important shit is fucked up and it can't see anything at all. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.

I downloaded the pictures that it took; given that they are not all the same slash exactly black, I know it's on the light-gathering end of things that it's fucked up. That's the part about which I know the least. Argh; dammit.

We'll be in Ushuaia in a few hours. I could have used this time to write emails or postcards, but I was hoping to get the camera fixed. Now I've got nothing but a tired brain and a whiney journal entry.

Shitballs.

3:00am ART Saturday 18 February 2006

Hmmm. I take it back, a little bit. I tried again and got a bit of an image that changed when I flexed the camera a little bit. Now I think the problem is with the backend, which will be far easier to diagnose and fix than the front end. And I have a 90% sureity that I know what is the problem.

But right now I'm going to sleeeeeeep.