fieldwork day 10

weight: 215
treadmill: 30 minutes - watched episode of Murphy Brown too. Love that show!
Significant chore: get some classroom paperwork and cleaning caught up. Also need to accomplish something here at home.
Exploration opportunities: Well, I should work on my painting.


Fieldwork;

As the day starts I am really sluggish. I think I am in a depressed cycle right now. Gotta snap out of this.

Partway through the day - arrgh - still dragging here. Skipped out on going to my classroom. I was able to get the school webpage updated from home. I have some papers I can grade here and enter via the Internet - so I'll be caught up on the most important stuff. If I get in early on Monday (ha,ha,ha,ha), I can get a little done. We will be going on a field trip, so I can finish up after school (ha,ha,ha,ha).

Nick heard about my funk and roped me in to helping him solve an online puzzle. go to: http://www.iamnottome.com/. It'll look like only a picture, but actually it is a riddle to solve. After solving each one you go deeper and deeper into the riddle. Nick showed me how the first page worked, then I made a suggestion for the second page (I figured out the words were lyrics to a song - Nick was surprised I picked that up so quick, little did I know he had already solved that page and was just humoring me). We continued on another page, and again Nick was a little surprised at my ideas for solving - again, he had already solved it. So we got onto the 4th page -where Nick was stumped. We worked together for about 1/2 hour and finally solved it. (Nick figured out the final key - I was able to take the information and then find the answer- good teamwork). In our google searches we found lots of other folks out there working on the puzzle. Some are off on their thinking, some right on. I have to say it did wake me up a bit. But then Nick had to go to work.

I took a nap.

Finally got the porch in back hosed off. I need to find that one feng shui spot in the house that needs work to help pull me out of this blah state. My painting still stands unworked on.

Evening update: I got up after a bit and decided to throw caution to the wind and do a background on my painting. I'm limited in what color tubes I have so it turned out somewhat more vibrant than I was planning. I've had to walk away from it and come back to look at it a couple of times. It is growing on me. It is actually what I wanted to do -experiment with just getting color on canvas. The next time I'll need to add in the flowers and details I want. I left my camera at school -so I'll have to take a picture on Monday. But I do feel some accomplishment now. Cassey told me it always takes more paint than you expect it to. That is very true. I need to go buy more pant now. I'm feeling a little braver about attacking one of these other canvases.