7Tishrei/ 25 September 2009
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bearshortyDollhouse Season 2 Episode 1. The new season has started and I think the awesomeness of “Epitaph One” made me have too much high expectations. This was an OK episode but not the best one. Great Whiskey scenes and great Topher scenes. Her snark in dealing with the fact that she is a doll and her interactions with Boyd and Topher were lovely and worthy of a rewatch. I’m just not that interested in Echo and her storyline that much. But Wesley! Yeah! Excited to see him. And with his normal accent. I think this episode just sets up the arc of the season and it all will pick up later. It least I hope so.
I love the opening sequence music in “Battlestar Gallactica,” it is haunting and very appropriate to end of the world feeling. I’m tempted to buy a CD.
I went over Chapter 2 of the Hebrew book today (I’m using “The First Hebrew Primer: Third Edition”) : the second half of the alphabet and the rest of the vowels. I think I’m getting better at not getting confused by similar looking letters. The chapter had more English words written in Hebrew letters and that helped. I pulled vocab cards from the future chapter to get a heads up but I still have one more chapter on vowels and pronunciation exceptions. I don’t want to do too much at one time, my brain needs to process and distinguish my “r” and “d”s.
I’m having a bit of fanfic withdrawal. But I’m staying firm on my goal. I’ll just have to settle for a book version that’s coming out this month.
I need to write more (when I say ‘write’ I mean my dissertation work); this week grading consumed too much of my time. Goals for next week: start the conference paper and work on the corresponding chapter.
Bear’s parents are getting a new dog soon, maybe. Well, at least if it is another beagle it won’t take me as long to adjust to it. Hopefully the dog and I can come to an understanding where he stays away from me and doesn’t touch me and not take it personally and I can be in the same room with him.
Genesis WTF moment of the day: Judah son of Jacob had three sons in this story: Er, Onan and Shelah. He married off the oldest, Er to a woman named Tamar. Now God was pissed at Er and killed him. So Judah married Tamar to his second son Onan. The idea was for Onan to get Tamar pregnant and then the resulting child would have counted as Er’s child. Onan didn’t like that idea too much; well he liked marrying Tamar and sleeping with her plenty, he just did not want his sperm to conceive his brother’s child. And while sleeping with Tamar he made sure she wouldn’t conceive. God didn’t like that too and killed Onan. (this is the part of story that makes the Catholic Church pronounce that “spilling seed on the ground” is evil. Context, church, context. What you mean, church, is not what the story is about. If my students were explaining quotes and interpreting that way, I would fail them) But this is not the most WTF moment of this story. After Onan dies, his younger brother Shelah is still a kid. Judah sends Tamar back to her family to wait for Shelah to grow up. Years pass, the boy grows up but Judah doesn’t honor his promise. Tamar decides to take matters into her own hands. After Judah’s wife dies and he travels somewhere, Tamar puts on a veil and changes her clothes and sits in Judah’s path. He takes her for a hooker and asks to sleep with her. To be fair he didn’t recognize his daughter in law and he did ask. They arrange for a payment of a goat, and in the meantime Judah turned over a seal and other things as collateral. Tamar then gets pregnant. Three month later, Judah gets a report that she is pregnant and orders her to be burned, thinking she is sleeping around. He is shamed after she shows him the collateral and acknowledges that she is more right than he since he did promise her his third son. Tamar gives birth to twins.
I love the opening sequence music in “Battlestar Gallactica,” it is haunting and very appropriate to end of the world feeling. I’m tempted to buy a CD.
I went over Chapter 2 of the Hebrew book today (I’m using “The First Hebrew Primer: Third Edition”) : the second half of the alphabet and the rest of the vowels. I think I’m getting better at not getting confused by similar looking letters. The chapter had more English words written in Hebrew letters and that helped. I pulled vocab cards from the future chapter to get a heads up but I still have one more chapter on vowels and pronunciation exceptions. I don’t want to do too much at one time, my brain needs to process and distinguish my “r” and “d”s.
I’m having a bit of fanfic withdrawal. But I’m staying firm on my goal. I’ll just have to settle for a book version that’s coming out this month.
I need to write more (when I say ‘write’ I mean my dissertation work); this week grading consumed too much of my time. Goals for next week: start the conference paper and work on the corresponding chapter.
Bear’s parents are getting a new dog soon, maybe. Well, at least if it is another beagle it won’t take me as long to adjust to it. Hopefully the dog and I can come to an understanding where he stays away from me and doesn’t touch me and not take it personally and I can be in the same room with him.
Genesis WTF moment of the day: Judah son of Jacob had three sons in this story: Er, Onan and Shelah. He married off the oldest, Er to a woman named Tamar. Now God was pissed at Er and killed him. So Judah married Tamar to his second son Onan. The idea was for Onan to get Tamar pregnant and then the resulting child would have counted as Er’s child. Onan didn’t like that idea too much; well he liked marrying Tamar and sleeping with her plenty, he just did not want his sperm to conceive his brother’s child. And while sleeping with Tamar he made sure she wouldn’t conceive. God didn’t like that too and killed Onan. (this is the part of story that makes the Catholic Church pronounce that “spilling seed on the ground” is evil. Context, church, context. What you mean, church, is not what the story is about. If my students were explaining quotes and interpreting that way, I would fail them) But this is not the most WTF moment of this story. After Onan dies, his younger brother Shelah is still a kid. Judah sends Tamar back to her family to wait for Shelah to grow up. Years pass, the boy grows up but Judah doesn’t honor his promise. Tamar decides to take matters into her own hands. After Judah’s wife dies and he travels somewhere, Tamar puts on a veil and changes her clothes and sits in Judah’s path. He takes her for a hooker and asks to sleep with her. To be fair he didn’t recognize his daughter in law and he did ask. They arrange for a payment of a goat, and in the meantime Judah turned over a seal and other things as collateral. Tamar then gets pregnant. Three month later, Judah gets a report that she is pregnant and orders her to be burned, thinking she is sleeping around. He is shamed after she shows him the collateral and acknowledges that she is more right than he since he did promise her his third son. Tamar gives birth to twins.
