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Just another day of online grad school.

New Feed!

So, I moved my Twitter feed to the top of the blog, and added a tumbler feed for Ezra to the side. Yes, he has an art blog, but he doesn't update it nearly as often as tumblr. As far as I can tell, I can't get a feed that actually shows the art for here on our blog, so you can click on the links in his feed to see his art.

I think that's all for now!

Who's a Terrible Blogger?

Who's a terrible blogger? *Raises hand* Me! Yep, it's been ages. School work has kind of taken over our lives. On the upside, we're doing really well!

I'm a little bit more active on other social media sites, so to compensate for our lack of posting here I added my twitter feed over on the right. I'm a little better at microblogging than writing a full post for this.

I actually only thought about doing this because I'm learning about teens and social media right now. I'm taking Young Adult Programming and Young Adult Materials this fall. It's my YA semester! Woot! And as I thought about social media I figured adding a twitter widget here was something I should do. So I did. That's all for now. :-)

For those unfamiliar with the terms "twitter" and "widget":

Twitter is a site where users post short (140 characters or less, not words, characters) messages about, well, whatever they want. They can talk to people, post news, say what they're up to, etc.

A widget is a little added gadget to help people do something or access a service quickly, often from within something else. So my twitter widget pulls my posts from twitter and shows them here, so that you don't have to go to my twitter page. Super handy!

Penguin Sledding!

We went sledding at Bicentennial Park today and had a lot of fun! Santa (Ezra) got us some penguin sleds for Christmas. It just snowed, and there isn't much snow in the forecast right after Christmas so we got to open that present a little early. 

If you haven't seen the first episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender (the cartoon, not the horrific movie) the excitement of penguin sledding will probably be lost on you.

New job

Super sad that yesterday was my last day at the Provo City Library..... I have been there for nearly 4 years, and it will be weird to think that I won't be working there anymore.  Allison is still there, so I am married in at least.  After one of my classes ends at the end of October, I'll be volunteering at the library, (big smiley face) and hopefully in different departments than where I was able to work before.

I have now finished two whole weeks at my new job and am very excited to only be working one job and going to school.  Over the last two weeks I worked 66 hours at my new job and 52 hours at my old job... 118 hours in two weeks... Plus classes! I'm surprised I got as much done as I did in that time. Now I have a little more freedom and a bit more sleep too.

It has been fun taking the two classes that I have right now, Concept Design for Entertainment (i.e. Film, tv, animation...) and Storyboarding for animation.  They are a lot of fun and the type of stuff I have wanted to do since I was very little.  I was the weird kid that loved the same cartoons as you, but was almost more interested in how they were made and upset that we didn't get to see all the other art that was made. I found out at a very young age that when you watch a movie or a tv show, there is a lot that they don't get to show you.  I always felt ripped off that I couldn't see the rest of it and sad that I would probably never get to go to California to see it...

...fast forward to present day and the internet. I can see tons (literally) of production art that never makes it on the air. It is indeed a wonderful time that we live in.

On another note, our mouse is dead, he got into the poison our landlord put out before we moved in. We will be working on his funeral soon.