The Desert Duck

August 24, 2008

Swimming

Filed under: Uncategorized — pawnhandler @ 8:20 pm

Can I multitask? Well, I guess we’ll find out! I’m watching the Closing Ceremonies of the Olymmpics and grading papers off and on, and doing research for a U of Px paper off and on.

So yesterday Dad and I decide to go swimming. It’s what we do on Saturday afternoons. Sometimes there are a few families on Saturdays at his pool, but most of the time it’s fairly quiet. So we get there and see …

a photo shoot. Girls in bikinis and really odd bathing suits in all sorts of places at the pool, and photographers, and a director woman. There were also a very small number of regulars.

Of course, my experience of the event wasn’t the same as my fathers; he found it quite entertaining. I kept thinking it must be weird to think that your contribution to the world is being pretty and skinny. One of the models said that they (as in Someone) had gotten together twelve models and twelve photographers for the shoot. They were hoping that it would end up being a calendar, but it seemed like a freelance sort of arrangement. But you’ve seen pictures of the pool and its big rock in this blog, so if you see a swimsuit calendar with a huge rock, a woman with a blue inner tube (she borrowed my father’s), or hanging upside down on the rock with weird sheer fabric flowing behind her — well, we saw it being photographed.

I am nearly finished with the third week of the U of Phoenix. For this week’s group assignment, we needed to make an outline for our upcoming paper. Charlie made the outline itself, but didn’t add his part. Sharina added her part. Walter is a no-show. So I did the rest (put in my part and filled in the rest as well). Sharina and I agreed that the men will simply be assigned what to write, since they didn’t participate in the outline. Earlier in the week, the teacher declared that she didn’t get our last assignment. Well, after I sent her a screen shot she found it. So today she declared in the forums that she gave everyone back their personal papers from last week so we can use the feedback to do better on the paper due Tuesday (moved from Monday). So guess who didn’t get her paper back??????? Then again, every time she responds to a post of mine in the forum, she calls me Carolina. I haven’t figured that one out yet.

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