We had a full house over the holiday. Teena and Brad were up from Dayton with their little girl, Montana. She is as cute as a button and beyond charming. It was very fun to have a little niblet in the house.
Rachel is doing well and is starting to think about what she wants to do following graduation. She is thinking about going on in school to get a Masters in graphic arts (Rhode Island School of Design or Savannah School of Design). She is also getting psyched for the Honors Program trip to Turkey (she is going in May for three weeks). Very cheap in that is subsidized by the school.
Dan is doing well also; I think he is still adjusting to college and starting to really like Grand Valley. The plan has been to transfer to Michigan but not sure he will do that given how much he seems to like GVSU. Right now his major in Business but he is thinking about some other areas as well. He continues to lift on a regular basis and is frankly becoming a "beast." He has put on 30 pounds of muscle in the last year and his arms are like gatling guns.
Sarah is finally starting to shake off the final vestiges of the swine flu. It was a bad one and she is still coughing a bit. Basketball season is getting ready to start this Friday and in practice she is getting winded so she's not in game condition yet. But, she's a gamer so I expect she will be ready to go. She has a lot of catching up to do in school given she was out for a week+, but she is getting there.
Cheryl is still struggling with sleep and pain issues. Frustrating and draining for her. It is the plan to relocate in a few years to warm weather (job permitting). I am hopeful that will help a lot, but who knows for sure. I continue to be the center of her existence (yea, right).
My business is slow but I am still optmistic we will get it going. I am keeping my fingers crossed and praying a lot for calm (not really for success, just for peace and resignation). Other than that, I am walking a lot to try and get in better shape (not sure it is working) and I have started to play the drums again which has been really fun. I told Cheryl that I plan to tour with Yes in the next few years. She is skeptical.
Love to you all. I think of Gus and Bill often and plan to take December 23 off to just contemplate Pop. Take care.
Glad the Michigan Moirs had fun with their turkey! Tell Rockalena that before she chooses an art school for graduate studies, she should go there to see them both. RISD and Savannah are very different places from what I know. RISD will probably have somewhat of a line on NYC business opportunities, just because of its proximity. Savannah has had a lot of buzz in the last few years, and it's a darn sight more amenable climate for someone who has spent so many years up north. I think that RISD may be more free-wheeling (read liberal) whereas Savannah may be more structured (read conservative), so it depends on what Rocky is looking for at this time in her studies. I find it interesting that RISD has only one Google review while Savannah has four - RISD has been around so much longer. Is she thinking about anime? Then study in Japan! http://www.neec.ac.jp/cie/us/animation/anime.html
ReplyDeleteAhaha, there's a family blog? I am super pleased by this. For some reason I have always been terrible about answering emails, but posting on blogs and message boards is a snap.
ReplyDeleteThanksgiving was lovely and I want to come back home again right now. This may in part be due to the paper I have to have finished by Wednesday morning. Hooray stress, over caffeination and lack of sleep. Possibly a bit of despair, too. I am writing about modernist literature after all.
As for more specifics as to my post-undergrad plans...I'm thinking about specifically pursuing a graphic design degree, for practicality's sake. I like it well enough, and as far as art careers go, it's pretty lucrative, and a growing industry. I'm really falling in love with sculpture, though, specifically classically influenced figurative sculpture. It's really lovely and weird how fascinated I can get by something like a clavicle or an ankle bone. I think I'll have to relegate that (and my fascination with comics; I still am very drawn to visual storytelling –in movies too! Ingmar Bergman, how pretty your films are– but I moved on from anime to more western stuff) to the realm of hobby for now though. Maybe. I waver often on that point. Really, I have never been much about practicality...right. No. Focusing on being useful.
Also, Padre? You need to work on your timing with the phone calls. You keep calling when I'm in class or asleep. And I check my voicemail about as often as I clean my desk. Which, you should know, is very, very close to never.
Rockie surfaces! Hey, you, great to have you in the Moir blogosphere! I loved sculpture also and thought of changing my major in my last year of art school, but I just wanted to get out back then! I'm sorry in some ways that I didn't pursue it, but one always can do anything on one's own, and if there was ever a time to be practical, this is it. I found that being an art major has informed everything I have done since then anyway, it's a fabulous education in problem-solving! Regarding visual story-telling, have you seen "Persepolis" and "Waltz with Bashir?" Powerful powerful stuff! And for a laugh, see if you can find "The Mysterious Geographic Adventures of Jasper Morello." A very artistic production indeed! Keep blooging, we love to hear from you!
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