Back home from our Winter vacation and its back to work for us. Its February, a traditionally busy time of year for David's department. Amy drops David off at practicum every day and continues on to the ceramics studio to make sense of things. At the studio, Amy wishes the laws of physics were different for her medium. She's making ceramics with reasonable success but finds she enjoys discussing art criticism and artwork by other grad students more than she cares to make sense of her own. The studio is cold, and from her wheel she watches the bare trees and the snow riding on the wind. A glaze calculation class turns out to be a skill with diminishing value and a large investment in time. At mid-day, David takes the bus back to campus for classes and research, then late in the evening meets Amy at the studio for a ride home. There's just some time for dinner and packing the next day's lunch, and our next day starts again.
We've begun teaching classes at the Student Rec Center for the WVU Swing Dance Club once per week. We used to dance all week long in Pasadena and San Bernardino. The dancing and skill-sharing become an important way for us to work on something creative together. David is a natural teacher.
On the weekends our work keeps us on a busy schedule. David researches and Amy goes to the studio. There is some playing in the snow and we finally managed to make it out to our first evening at Swing City, Pittsburgh's weekly live dance venue. It feels great to dance again to live music, and we are missing our dance family back home.
In March, Amy takes David to school and turns back for home to set up a surprise: A first birthday far from home. We're too busy for plans, so a little something will do.
No celebration is big enough to de-rail David from his research.
David proudly displays expressions of love and gifts sent by family.
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