January 2007 Archives

You totally have to watch this video: Cellular Visions: The Inner Life of a Cell. A colleague sent ti to me. It's an animation done by XVIVO, a scientific animation company, for Harvard biology students. It took academic data and narrative from the biology lab and Harvard, and made it in a way that simple folks like you an I can look at it. Simply put, it's an animation of what's goin on in the human body. “All of those things that you see in the animation are going on in every one of your cells in your body all the time,” says XVIVO lead animator John Liebler (see linked article above). Wow.

So, again I am astounded by the complexity of the body. To think, all of that is going on inside of our bodies.... For me, it points even more so to an awesome God, who knit us all together carefully and completely.

Hope you like it!

Well, I go back to work tomorrow. It's the most difficult to go back after the holiday break because I've had a little rest, a little play, and gotten a little work done -- but never as much as I wanted to. Now I wake up today (around 1:30 p.m. to boot, gotta love the New Year's party), and I'm less the twenty-four hours from teaching again. And it makes me feel a little panicked and rushed.

It's not hard going back after the summer, because you get a little tired of summer by then, and you get prepared by seeing all the new pencil cases and lunch boxes for sale at the store. You also get teacher work days to prepare and anticipate with. This break, you just kind of get thrown back in to the middle of the quarter with no prep.

Unless you go in to work over the holiday break. That's what I'm going to do and I'll bet you that half the teachers are there too. That kind of makes it fun because you get to have all of the,"Hey, what are YOU doing here?" conversations and maybe strike out in search of coffee together.

Still, I miss my break time. It went by too fast.