group dynamics: September 2005 Archives

Wobble Man is probably out for the count - and just when he discovered the 15 pounder! Ah well, some things are more important. :-) I'll miss his interpretations of the control panel (as he poised over the "foul" button for anyone with particularly smelly shoes).

"The spin is strong in this one" had a few lucky strikes and - via persistence - is no doubt gonna be competing with the Spin Doctor soon enough. The Doctor had three doubles last night!! Impressive.

Someone was mooning all evening, distracted. WHAT a surprise he got at the end of the day. His first game was hot then he faded throughout the rest. Dang emotions - my turn last week, his this week. Who will be next?

Supposedly there's a lot of bowling in The Big Lebowsky - which was previously recommended to me.

is on the horizon.... after reaching the peak of Mt. Bare from Taylor Notch at a much slower pace than last fall (!) and taking in the sights, we decided to forge on to the overlook at Mt. Hitchcock - pressing into new territory and expanding all of our horizons. It was a perfect day for hiking; we spent as much time lounging in the sun as actually moving.

I also had some memories of being there being there from over a year ago, on the Summer Solstice.

Billed by B.E. as a movie that will "rip your guts out but in a good way," I have to say that Crash left me disturbed and unsettled. It certainly didn't qualify as the previously requested light, non-gutwrenching drama, but then, B.E. wasn't privy to all the nuances of the movie negotiation.

but I'm still optimistic the students in intro to mass comm are gonna be jazzed as we continue. It's hard work devising a strategy for learning when "the lesson" isn't laid out on a platter; but we're gonna pull it off. Flashes of brilliance abound, from all quarters. :-)

I'm teaching a friend how to drive. He keeps teasing me about the friend I tried to teach last year (who stopped taking lessons after I attempted to teach her to look at the blind spots through physical manipulation). Another friends shares her inspiring "learning to drive" story:

"I hit a house on my last driving school lesson. I don't know if I ever mentioned that. Drove across the yellow line, jumped the curb, shot across the sidewalk, swerved around an oak tree, smashed through some hedges, drove over a kiddie pool (thank God no kids were in it) and crashed into the corner of a house before coming to a complete stop. That was pretty exciting, especially when the cops and the fire department and the tow truck and the president of the driving school showed up."

My buddy only tried to take out a gas station yesterday. No biggie.

The woman writing this storm blog explains: "The way I post, is also the way I show up in the world - I just go where my energy moves me."

Yeah.