Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Dec. 7th, 2010 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyI woke up at 6:30 again and instead of feeling frustrated I decided to do some work instead, so I just turned my computer on. That way by the time I had to get up at 8 I actually felt productive.
Today was the rough-draft day for my students for their final exam. I threw them a pretty easy question based on the last three readings they had to do. The question was: “How does immigration affect the immigrants’ culture?” The Naipaul essay specifically talks about how Indians (from India) had to adopt their ceremonies once they moved to Trinidad. It is a pretty wide question that they can take in many directions, they can talk about language or preserving culture in a foreign land – as long as they had a thesis. Some were still confused by the question. Do you mean the culture of the home country? No, I don’t, I mean the culture of the immigrants who by definition are living somewhere else. This is not that hard people – you have three examples and you even suggested something similar in class discussion and I told you I might use that. I graded a bit during the first class, got some pizza and banana for the second class and read “The Winter Queen.” That book is so much more awesome than I remember.
I finally, finally got the health center give me a urologist referral. And then they tell me that because of our school’s shitty insurance I might have to pay as much of 20% of any tests done at the real doctor’s office. You used to be a better insurance just two years ago, school, now even this insurance sucks. But my bladder has been bothering me for at least six month and it is not a UTI, they keep checking. I really hope the urologist will be able to explain it somehow. Or at least rule out anything horrible.
Funny animated cartoon about the origins on War on Christmas on "The Daily Show"
Today was the rough-draft day for my students for their final exam. I threw them a pretty easy question based on the last three readings they had to do. The question was: “How does immigration affect the immigrants’ culture?” The Naipaul essay specifically talks about how Indians (from India) had to adopt their ceremonies once they moved to Trinidad. It is a pretty wide question that they can take in many directions, they can talk about language or preserving culture in a foreign land – as long as they had a thesis. Some were still confused by the question. Do you mean the culture of the home country? No, I don’t, I mean the culture of the immigrants who by definition are living somewhere else. This is not that hard people – you have three examples and you even suggested something similar in class discussion and I told you I might use that. I graded a bit during the first class, got some pizza and banana for the second class and read “The Winter Queen.” That book is so much more awesome than I remember.
I finally, finally got the health center give me a urologist referral. And then they tell me that because of our school’s shitty insurance I might have to pay as much of 20% of any tests done at the real doctor’s office. You used to be a better insurance just two years ago, school, now even this insurance sucks. But my bladder has been bothering me for at least six month and it is not a UTI, they keep checking. I really hope the urologist will be able to explain it somehow. Or at least rule out anything horrible.
Funny animated cartoon about the origins on War on Christmas on "The Daily Show"