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Juggling


This titles had a two-fold meaning: literal and figurative. Today, after Visual Story, Jesse held a juggling workshop at the ETC and taught all the first years how to juggle. I thought it was impossible for me to learn, but I am starting to getting. I was very surprised that in a hour and a half I could consistantly throw and catch 3 balls. I have started working on the forth throw (4th throw is the first ball again, still only 3 balls). Once I get that I think continuous juggling will be the next step (since 4 returns me to the initial position) and won't be too hard.

It seems ironic that the ETC would want to teach me to juggle since it is also what they require me to do with all the work I have. In fact I'm not sure which is harder and which is easier. I've been ok keeping up with my 3 classes so far (although I'm worried about where improv and particularly visual story is going). The tough part is TAing BVW, being on an ETC, and balancing the rest of my life.

BVW has been going ok. The struggle for me is to manage all the VR equipment. This are kind of crappy and I don't have a lot of time to invest the hard work to make stuff good. Also I don't really have the tools and equipment at the ETC. At Stage3 at least everything was there and semi organized (or at least in a small space). In addition, I'm supposed to prepare the AIBO and I'm not sure what I should be doing.

On Animateering, the project I was assigned, we only recently decided what we wanted to do. We have a quarter presentation due in a week (has it really been a quarter of the semester?). I'm nervous about my contribution here. I've never been on an ETC project before and I'm not totally sure what is expected of me. Everything else is well defined so I spend my time on those things. If I had clear goals on the project I think I would be excited to work on it. Without clear goals, though, I don't find the time to sit down and do something or figure out what I should be doing.

Finally there is the rest of my life. The Jewish holidays are here and ready to wreak havoc on what little time management I have. I've been hanging with AEPi a little. I haven't been able to do too much tech although there isn't that much to do. I wish I could spend more time socializing with the ETC class. I think the ETC would be really cool if it weren't for the work. As it right now it is just school with some maybe cool classes. But I think this collection of people could be so cool if we had some free time. It would really take advantage of every opportunity of being college age; Or at least that's my prediction. Finally I'm working on 2.0 of bcal, my calendar software. Hopefully it will rock if I ever have time to finish it. Just that I started makes me worry I'm wasting time. And now that it is started I'm more likely to put in time I really don't have to get it done so it can get off my desktop.

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