Thursday, June 26, 2014

Summer Time is almost here


This is my first post on this blog and I do not know where to start.  I started this because I need a place to talk about my interests and to chat about the books I read, the photos I take and my genealogy research.  I will also post about the things we are doing in elementary summer school.  I am an aide and will try and post about the things the children do and say if I can.  
    I am re reading "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood.  I read it when it first came out but then dropped it as other things happened in my life.  This reading I find that it is really apocryphal.  Snowman is telling the story of his life while we watch his present .  The world is too hot and flooded the only person left is Snowman(aka Jimmy).
There are other humanoids that were constructed to survive the environmental changes by Crake(aka Glenn) and Snowman interacts with them as a story teller and prophet.  He is their connection to Crake the creator.  
    I am about half way through the book and hope to read the whole trilogy this summer.
     
    In other happenings today I signed up for an online course through Coursera.  It is Crafting an Effective Writer.  I hope to improve my writing skills as I know that I have become lax and rusty about usage and things like that.  

     It is also World Cup time and today both of my teams moved up to the next level.  Of course, the US has Potugal to thank for the advance, if Portugal had not beaten Ghana then the US would be going home,  they lost to Germany but by the point system US had more points than either Portugal or Ghana.  Close call.....you better play better next round or bye bye Brasil for yall.
















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