it's a new week

so last week was kind of awesome.... i got a lot of work done and was able to have a stress free weekend.

physics: the class itself is hard. keep in mind that the last time i was in physics was 15 years ago. so far, nothing has 'come back' to me. but i decided to look at the homework (online) and see if i could do any. i was able to do three problems, only took one attempt to get the first two right. the third was a four-part problem. the first two i took two attempts, the rest... ONE! i am awesome!!!

lab: lab this week was really great. my partner and i are both lacking in the confidence department, but were all for the trying anyways. come on people, we do need that passing grade. this time we were supposed to get our 'protoboards' and set up a simple circuit to get an LED light to light up. we followed the diagram/directions... and low and behold.... our light was shining. we kind of made a commotion about it, turns out we were the first to get ours working. we heard a lot of "how did you do that?".... umm, did what the professor said and followed the diagram. we decided to be ambitious and to a parallel circuit to add more lights. no work! when we asked the professor why things didn't work, in a nutshell he said we were making it more complicated than it needed to be. of course! that actually is my biggest problem.... making things too complicated. oh well, we got ours working right the first time and were satisfied.

photography: this week was just working on our first assignment. we had to take pictures with varying depths-of-filed, light meter readings, and such. we were to have two rolls done by monday (today). well, i took sofia around town with my tuesday to take some pictures. on the way home.... SNAKE! a smallish black/yellow snake crossed our path home. i saw it in time to grab sofia and let the snake continue on his course. freaky. wednesday, the professor said that since the lab wasn't ready, that we could go out and take our pictures. i went around with a partner and found a nice water area to photograph. right by the edge of the grass was a small gravel area that had that black burlap-type stuff sticking through. i took a step by it and saw that some of the burlap stuff moved. you got it... SNAKE! same smallish black/yellow type snake. this time i got a picture of it. but really!!! two days in a row!!! needless to say, i got all my pictures done and headed into town to buy the last of my photo supplies. such an expensive class.

criticism: we talked about a new (to me) program that JMU offers called MDID, Madison Digital Image Database. basically, a lot of pictures of art pieces and information in one place. very handy-dandy for the art history people and those going into art education. one day was spent learning about it and the other day was spent using it. i didn't have any issues with it, but i do need to go back and pick new items.... the professor wants artist from 2007 to 2012, oops. at least i know what i'm doing now.

now on to doing homework and readings.... intense week ahead of me.