Eww
As long as I can remember, summer nights have been plagued by “killer bugs.” These are huge bugs that hiss and fly (poorly) and get stuck in your hair.
Well, it’s midnight, and I’m still awake, so I figured I might as well find out more about the killer bugs, or should I say Polyphylla decemlineata. It is more commonly known as the long haired june bug. More info and pictures can be found here or here.
Psych, Season 4
Yay, Pysch Season 4 starts in a couple weeks. And, if you go to the USA Network website, you can make a trailer for the new season… Here is mine.
The Ocean…
I need water. The ocean or a lake would be ideal (note to all – the bodies of water in Arizona are hardly lakes… so they don’t count). But I’d take a nice river too…
I’ll admit the extra rain we’ve been getting has been lovely, but its just not the same…
sigh………………………..
(yes I took those pictures, prints of those as well as many of my other photographs can be found here)
POPS Orchestra
Tonight was the first rehearsal for the POPS summer concert series. It was a lot of fun. Especially because we are playing some of my favorite pieces of music.
Here is this concert’s line up:
Summon the Heroes, by John Williams for the 1994 Atlanta Olympic Games
The Rocketeer, by James Horner
Die Fledermaus (the Bat), by Johann Strauss
A piece written by one of the other orchestra members
An arrangement of Batman,
Dances With Wolves,
and Robin Hood – Prince of Thieves
***intermission***
Procession of the Nobles, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Patton, by Jerry Goldsmith
Raiders of the Lost Arch, by John WIlliams
Spiderman, by Danny Elfman
Spider-Pig, by Paul Lavendar
Pirates of the Caribbean, by Hans Zimmer
and of course…. an encore!!!
Upcoming Classes
Well its time for summer classes.
I am taking about 8 credits offered online be FEMA. These courses are Basics of Disaster, Animals in Disaster, Special Events Contingency Planning, Household Hazardous Materials, Intro to Incident Command System, Livestock in Disaster, Special Needs Planning Considerations, Coordinating Environmental and Historic Preservation, and Anticipating Hazardous Weather and Community Risk.
Then at the end of the summer, I am taking Patrol Procedures and Officer Survival online through Maricopa.
In the fall, I want to take Crime Scene Processing and Intro to Digital Photography, both through Maricopa. These will be in addition to the metorships through the other program
And then somewhere in there through in my internship.
Movie Review
I think that looks funny.
Anyway, last night, we went to see Star Trek. It was wonderful!!! Very well done, true to the story, good plot. There are lots of inside jokes and tributes for the fans of the shows, but its done in such a way that anyone would enjoy it.
I would love to do down to Phoenix to see it on IMAX, ’cause that would just be fun.
