Burrell, I'm so sorry.

How've you been liking the class, Tom?

Oh, Bubba. Silly kitty.

flea, my genealogy-interested roommate watched that last night and thought it was great. I think the idea of a 10-times-removed 'cousin' is sketchy but it's not a bad excuse to visit Cameroon with your elderly father, so.

I am so sorry, Burrell.

I saw the Blair Underwood episode last night too. (He is a very handsome man. I'm going on record with that.) I thought it was so cool that there was someone in the same DNA-translating program who was related to him at all, from so far away and so long ago. It was a good episode.

How've you been liking the class, Tom?

It's been fun! It's mostly been helpful in getting me less wary of taking photos of strangers. I wish I could have got more feedback on my pictures; maybe it's because I don't know the right questions to ask?

The class blog is here: [link]

I wish I could have got more feedback on my pictures

My feedback would be along the lines of "ooh, pretty!" and nothing really technically helpful. I think your photos are lovely.

That's a really cool blog. It's good that it seems you found a simpatico group of people. I joined a photo club in Michigan, and it was mostly pictures of deer and the Grand Canyon, and I got really tepid reactions to my work, enough that I couldn't be sure what was constructive and what was just missing the target market. But the other people in your group look like they have good cool eyes.

Still, I dig wanting more feedback. And learning to give feedback is always good.

The art "class" I went to a couple weeks back wasn't a class. It was a model session. There was no instruction or feedback, which was kind of disappointing. But getting a model to work with was still a start.

I'm feeling very artistically adrift, and I need external help to get my moorings back.

I swear, no actor is having more fun this season than Mark Pellegrino. Jesus hijinks.

Yup, I had that with the songwriting class I did. Partly because I goofed and it was a multiday class and I only got the last half of it. But apparently the earlier days were more feedbacky and the parts I came in for were more applause only. But I enjoyed the heck out of it and hope to do it again this coming summer.

Does anyone have a link to (or the actual thing) an MP3 of the monks singing My Immortal? I don't trust anything I come across via google. It all looks highly shady.

I'm not sure why I'm having such a hard time finding appropriate classes/groups. I know I have restrictions on my availability, but this is Los Angeles. I feel like I should at least have more options to turn down. I'm just not looking in the right places, clearly.

ita, the first place I would look is the extension/community sites for nearby unis and community colleges. E.g.: [link]