Ahh...Saturday

I've been back at school for a week, working to earn my room and board in Stained Glass. It's...different. NOBODY TALKS. At this point in the mill, we'd know the major facts on everyone, and given another week, we'd know everyone's life stories. Whether you wanted to let people know or not - who needs interrogators when you have a dozen people sitting around weaving?

Stained Glass is the opposite. No real conversations, no debates. They're really kind of cliqueish. So I'm already going insane. I like to talk while I work. And other than when you're grinding, this is the perfect job for conversation.

Thank goodness for all of my friends here. Our little band o' geeks meets for lunch every day - generally it's me, Stephen, Amanda, Kurtis, Tony, and sometimes Ethan. Conversations are great; we were discussing whether Star Wars or Star Trek is more likely to be real, and the conclusion was (obviously) that Star Trek is more likely, but we think the technology they actually have by the 23rd and 24th centuries will be much better. We also concluded that Stargate beats all, because for all we know, there could be a secret government program exploring other planets. It's my opinion that Doctor Who is probably somewhere in the middle - a time traveling alien with a London fixation saving the world from invading aliens seems do-able, although why said aliens ALWAYS want to invade London (no offense to London, it's an amazing city and I can't wait to go back) doesn't make sense. Why not New York? Washington? Paris? Tokyo? Sydney?

Full details on "how you make stained glass" later. I'm still burning myself too often to try to juggle a camera too. Hot lead on fingertip with only your rubber glove in between? It kind of hurts. Besides, I'm going to watch an episode of NCIS, then start my laundry and go to lunch.