Two more weeks of summer school. Attendance was a little low today. My lecture went well--the Cold War is this week's topic. Planning on showing some clips from Atomic Cafe. It's a documentary that pieces together clips from newreels, TV shows, cartoon, photos from the Cold War-atomic age of the 1950's. Funny, but scary footage. I like to compare the gas masks and Duck and Cover footage to the duct tape, plastic sheeting, and gallons of water craze from right after 9/11. Remember that??

I'm anxious for summer school to end so I can prepare for our big move. We are moving to Westside EP. There are lots of pluses and minuses to the move: we're closer to UTEP, farther from my campus; closer to good restaurants, farther from our families; we lose the washer/dryer, gain another room and more closet space. And there is the actual moving part, like the packing and renting truck and hauling shit around. Never fun, makes me want to do some heavy cleaning and editing of our possessions. Like I don't really need that waffle iron, right?