Insh'Allah

aka, the new Heather Alexander album. Heather's work is almost a collaboration with Steven Barnes' novel Lion's Blood - the music is based in Steven's alternative world, and the novel includes lyrics from several of the songs. The music is Celtic/Irish with a Moorish flair.

Some of the songs don't click with me - Fire on the Sea, for example. But the price of the CD was easily worth New Northwest alone, not to mention Gruagach!, We Are Bound, Laddie Are You Workin', or Fresh Hops & Hemp. I just wish I could identify the pug's contribution to Gruagach!.

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Once again, my students are taking a test and I'm updating LJ. I could be grading their final projects, but that's a fairly major undertaking that I don't want to start now. Instead, I'm thinking about something that happened on monday.

The counselor-dude & I did some chit-chat at the start of our session. I was describing how I taught myself to format DOS hard drives using a disk editor & why. He said "I'm glad you understood that".

Grr. What is so hard about this? Why do people think that computers are difficult to understand? Perfect - God no. Complicated, yes, at times. But hard?

Sigh. So we continue the conversation and he observes that I'm getting uptight each time I start talking about computers. He seems to think that I'm fed up with working with them. I'm not so sure. I know I enjoy using them. There are some things (like programming) that I don't like doing as much as others (like playing games, conversing on usenet, or catching up on my reading).

Do I still regard myself as a computer geek? I don't think that's going to change. I know more about computers than most folks and I don't like to throw away knowledge.

Do I still regard myself as a professional computer geek? No, not really.

So what do I consider my profession to be? Um...investor? :)