Umm... hi.  Sorry I've been secret blogging.  I've been thinking a lot about the weird role blogging plays in society and I wanted to see how I felt about writing the same sorts of things without an audience, I suppose to see why I was blogging and evaluating the merits of my motives.  But talking to Dana yesterday (two days ago?) made me realize that when I was secret blogging I wasn't real blogging and now she knows nothing about my life.  But I'm not too keen on new xanga, so here I am.  I'm still not sure how I feel about the student teaching updates, but what I have to say will be here.  In other news, a quick summer wrap-up in pictures:

first,  Physics of Music. POM was so hard, but very interesting. I'm not sure it made me a better musician, but I'm definitely more of a snob now.  And look! I can use a calculator!

I came home... and went to the zoo. 

We visited my brother and his fam in Wisconsin: this is my sister and her kid Hannah, my brother and his kid Ramona. They're a few months apart in age.

Melissa and i went to the dunes and it was gorgeous.

And the state fair! I like animals.

And now I live here!

And, oh yeah... I drive this :D