So, I had a little fun this weekend making a few icons from a book cover for a friend. (She’s one of the authors, you see.) The book is coming out on Sept 7th, if I recall aright. Anyway, I’ve got the book cover after the cut tag for those of you who want to compare. The banner at the top of this post is the new banner on her site (but smaller, you know).
Guess what? I really don’t need my notes from college. I’m not really sure why I’ve been dragging them from place to place this last decade plus. But now that I’ve seen the light, so to speak, I’m back to looking at the mighty stack of notebooks. The stuff war is back on! (For George Carlin’s opinion of stuff, go here.)
As you can see below, this was my notebook for French 3. This was the first French class I took at University. I’d already taken 4 years of French in High School, and one random class in Junior College (in which I wasn’t fond of the teacher) before I got to this point. It was in the nature of a review, dontcha know. The things I remember from this class are: 1) avoir envie de, 2) My right hand randomly starting to hurt and the discovery that I was really slow at taking notes left handed, and 3) the professor’s cute winking smiley face doodle. Her name was Something Marie or Marie Something…I forget. She was really nice.
I first encountered this video on my Twitter Feed (sorry, I don’t remember who posted it) and many thanks to “LeyteGroup” for posting it. They described it this way, “Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who just won Ukraine’s version of “America’s Got Talent.” She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and “sand painting” skills to interpret Germany’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.”
Okay. Before you watch this video, I should warn you. If you are an HSP or at all sensitive, you are going to need a tissue for the viewing. Personally, it’s the instrumental version of Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters that just kills me. Enjoy.
