A month and a week til the academic year

August 13th 2024
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It's so funny how the perception of time works because on one hand it's 
like "oh I have nearly half of my summer break left" and on the other 
it's "oh my god I only have a little over a month left of summer!!!"

I'm so worried about this training teachers thing I'll be doing 
tomorrow. I'm not worried about the Twine part of the class. I've taught 
Twine so many times including to teachers. I think that'll be fun. I'm 
slightly worried about the p5 portions because there is just so much I 
could say that I don't feel like I've managed to narrow it down 
sufficiently

These teachers have a super broad area of backgrounds so I guess what I 
can try to do is just show that you can handle equations of motion, draw 
various shapes and curves, and show off the support for vector math in 2 
and 3 dimensions?

Oh I should probably find a couple of cool examples that I can show of 
neat things people have done with p5 to give an impression of what the 
ceiling is like.

I guess I'm just talking out loud here about my day but hey if you can't 
ramble on a phlog where can you ramble?

I have an actual gempost I want to write soon that I'm probably going to 
call "Endless waste and (un)holy restriction" about what feels like the 
fine line between scruples ocd and trying to not contribute to the rot 
of the world. It's obviously not going to be a happy thing and like my 
last gemspace post it's more about the processing of wondering than 
about having a concrete set of answers.

Lastly, it feels so nice that portland is getting back to cloudy and 
cool earlier than the last few years. Enter the cooling phase of the big 
ocean current oscillation is helping us out this time I guess.