Kansas City RenFest
Aug. 31st, 2004 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Check it out. I might try to rustle up some people to go with me this weekend. I would like everyone even remotely associated with the Whitman RenFaire to note the theme of their faire, and to rejoice in the fact that We Did It First.
In other news, today I became officially certified to drive a giant 15-passenger van (though with no more than 12 people including the driver in it, per school policy). Certification involved watching a one-hour video. No actual driving practice was required. Hmm.
In other-other news, my students today couldn't distinguish galena from graphite, quartz from halite (taste it! I said. Eww, no way! They said. How are you going to know what it is? I said. Aren't you going to tell us? They said. Sheesh.), or calcite from anything else. I was running around trying to help where I could, but there was much confusion overall. Maybe tomorrow I'll make sure to remind them to _Read The Directions_ since clearly very few people bothered to today, costing some of them over an hour. *sigh* Maybe I'll get the hang of this one of these days.
Check it out. I might try to rustle up some people to go with me this weekend. I would like everyone even remotely associated with the Whitman RenFaire to note the theme of their faire, and to rejoice in the fact that We Did It First.
In other news, today I became officially certified to drive a giant 15-passenger van (though with no more than 12 people including the driver in it, per school policy). Certification involved watching a one-hour video. No actual driving practice was required. Hmm.
In other-other news, my students today couldn't distinguish galena from graphite, quartz from halite (taste it! I said. Eww, no way! They said. How are you going to know what it is? I said. Aren't you going to tell us? They said. Sheesh.), or calcite from anything else. I was running around trying to help where I could, but there was much confusion overall. Maybe tomorrow I'll make sure to remind them to _Read The Directions_ since clearly very few people bothered to today, costing some of them over an hour. *sigh* Maybe I'll get the hang of this one of these days.
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Date: 2004-08-31 10:14 pm (UTC)(Although I will note that my Faire 2000 character was a pirate, and Twit was our captain.)
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Date: 2004-09-01 03:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-31 10:15 pm (UTC)7 weeks?!
Date: 2004-09-01 05:03 am (UTC)I recall my Intro to Geo final. We had things to identify. I was in a hurry, and looking at one mineral I thought to myself: "Aha! Halite! Lets make this quick and just taste it!"
It was not halite. It did not taste nice at all. I was sad. Especially knowing that 20 other students had handled it before me.
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Re: 7 weeks?!
Date: 2004-09-01 03:16 pm (UTC)Have you ever _smelled_ your samples? Some oxides smell like metal, and I swear that some igneous rocks smell like gingerbread...
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Date: 2004-09-01 10:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-01 03:19 pm (UTC)