I don’t remember how it started, but one day I found myself giving all my dishes away and replacing them with handmade pottery. Not the kind people pay through the nose for – those beautiful, professional pieces made by skilled artisans – but the pieces people tend to make in high school right before dropping art class and diving head first into marriage.

On any given winter morning go inside a spacious public building and you will see groups of people all engaged in the same activity.

If you’re reading this, chances are good you are either a student, or you work at this (soon-to-be) university. I’m a student here, and I’m considered a “non-traditional” student because I’ve returned to school in my thirties after a 14-year hiatus.

Our humble beginnings.

It seems as though the IT department has now decided to limit access for guest accounts to social networking sites such as Myspace and Facebook. This department might tell someone in my situation (being a UVSC student) that I should login through the normal wireless connection, but listen: the only reason I use a guest account is because to use the normal UVSC wireless network is to wade through a bog of idiotic requirements and invasive policies put in place by the imagination of a Stone-Age IT mentality.