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bearshorty) wrote2010-10-19 11:11 pm
bearshorty) wrote2010-10-19 11:11 pm
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
There were four stalled cars, including one truck in the middle of the highway, and a car crash (not a severe one) on the road to work today. The morning started dreary with leftover rain and the roadway really reflected this. It was very unusual.
I only had twenty minutes to my class by the time I got to campus and it is a ten minute walk to the building where I teach. And I had to stop by the department office to make photo copies. And, of course, on a day like today where I’m rushing, the copy machine was broken. I printed Assignment 3 but I couldn’t exactly print the lovely table I made yesterday so the students could unpack all the people Pollan quotes. So I just put it on the board and they made their own table in their notebooks. It is not a big deal or anything but I did like my handout and was sorry I didn’t get to use it. It took my students an entire class to actually do this handout, we didn’t have the chance to talk too much about the reading, but hopefully it helps them understand all the arguments Pollan quotes.
I got lunch at the student center and I finished the National Geographic article on Mogao caves in Dunhuang, China. These are 800 caves and 492 are filled with Buddhist art and statues, made from 4th to 14th centuries. The city was in the middle of the Silk Road so there is a lot of multicultural intersections. The art is very colorful . I want to use some of these photos in my future class.
I got the flu shot today. Flu shots always make my right arm sore for a few days. But it is worth not being really sick for a week.
I have not been in a movie watching mood lately. I had two Netflix movies sitting on my table for two weeks now and I have no desire to see them. I tries watching a movie today but I stopped after 23 minutes when I realized that I just didn’t care. It wasn’t a bad movie or anything I was just indifferent. I’ll send these movies back. But there is no movie I really want to see. This is weird.
House S7E4 I caught up on this episode, finally. Rachel is very adorable. I liked her in episode five too. I was amused that the video game House was playing was the one from last season. This was an ok episode. Didn’t not care for the patient or the new doctor too much. I keep thinking how awesome Amber would have been as part of the team.
Caprica S1E12 This was the first episode where I really got that Zoe is a different person from the original Zoe. The scene where real Zoe first meets the avatar really pointed it out. So when Zoe and Tamara were fighting it became very clear that neither is who the original ones were. The infinity broach is a back-up! That is a neat and interesting idea. Amanda and Clarice both playing each other at that table was fun. Poor Lacy – her on Gemeni should be good. The last scene between Daniel and Vergis was wonderful. When Daniel suggested that they join forced to defeat the mob I thought it was a really clever idea and had lots of potential. But then Tomas’ actions really forewarned that he would make Daniels kill him – it was like assisted suicide at this point. Daniel is now really in it. This show has great actors. Why do I need to look at the forum to realize that the visionZoe Zoe was talking to, the one that suggested doing something more than just design Cylons, was HeadZoe or AngelZoe or whatever. That really makes me rethink a lot. If God setting the whole thing up for the beginning then?
I only had twenty minutes to my class by the time I got to campus and it is a ten minute walk to the building where I teach. And I had to stop by the department office to make photo copies. And, of course, on a day like today where I’m rushing, the copy machine was broken. I printed Assignment 3 but I couldn’t exactly print the lovely table I made yesterday so the students could unpack all the people Pollan quotes. So I just put it on the board and they made their own table in their notebooks. It is not a big deal or anything but I did like my handout and was sorry I didn’t get to use it. It took my students an entire class to actually do this handout, we didn’t have the chance to talk too much about the reading, but hopefully it helps them understand all the arguments Pollan quotes.
I got lunch at the student center and I finished the National Geographic article on Mogao caves in Dunhuang, China. These are 800 caves and 492 are filled with Buddhist art and statues, made from 4th to 14th centuries. The city was in the middle of the Silk Road so there is a lot of multicultural intersections. The art is very colorful . I want to use some of these photos in my future class.
I got the flu shot today. Flu shots always make my right arm sore for a few days. But it is worth not being really sick for a week.
I have not been in a movie watching mood lately. I had two Netflix movies sitting on my table for two weeks now and I have no desire to see them. I tries watching a movie today but I stopped after 23 minutes when I realized that I just didn’t care. It wasn’t a bad movie or anything I was just indifferent. I’ll send these movies back. But there is no movie I really want to see. This is weird.
House S7E4 I caught up on this episode, finally. Rachel is very adorable. I liked her in episode five too. I was amused that the video game House was playing was the one from last season. This was an ok episode. Didn’t not care for the patient or the new doctor too much. I keep thinking how awesome Amber would have been as part of the team.
Caprica S1E12 This was the first episode where I really got that Zoe is a different person from the original Zoe. The scene where real Zoe first meets the avatar really pointed it out. So when Zoe and Tamara were fighting it became very clear that neither is who the original ones were. The infinity broach is a back-up! That is a neat and interesting idea. Amanda and Clarice both playing each other at that table was fun. Poor Lacy – her on Gemeni should be good. The last scene between Daniel and Vergis was wonderful. When Daniel suggested that they join forced to defeat the mob I thought it was a really clever idea and had lots of potential. But then Tomas’ actions really forewarned that he would make Daniels kill him – it was like assisted suicide at this point. Daniel is now really in it. This show has great actors. Why do I need to look at the forum to realize that the visionZoe Zoe was talking to, the one that suggested doing something more than just design Cylons, was HeadZoe or AngelZoe or whatever. That really makes me rethink a lot. If God setting the whole thing up for the beginning then?