14 Kislev/1 December, 2009
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bearshortyI finished “Lions of Eldorado.” The book switched perspective in the middle of the story from Stella’s point of view to Terai’s point of view and his valiant effort to save the planet from an evil mining corporation who really wants to rule the universe. Stella just became a love interest as I predicted as she served her purpose of bringing information. The prose is not really inspiring and the dialogue was often too expositionary and awkward. And the main character is stereotypical. The book was interesting to read, I just can’t get into the story without analyzing its many faults and too many anvils and “social messages.” Verdict: meh.
For the final reading in my Basic Composition classes I assigned the article called “From frying pan into the fire.” I one of my classes the students didn’t really know the phrase, which is a bit scary. I mean they could technically figure it out logically but they refuse to use their brains.
We found out today that Sasha had laparoscopic appendectomy last weekend and is still in the hospital recovering. He didn’t really have appendicitis, just an intestine inflammation but since they were doing exploratory surgery, they figured they might as well take it out. Still, surgery is still surgery and I’m glad we found out after the fact so I didn’t have to worry too much.
We set up the Wii that Papa got for himself for his birthday. Well, really his parents paid for it with their birthday check. So we were playing Wii for the first time. It was really fun. I tried some tennis and some bowling before Mama commandeered the remote control and was just playing herself.
My dance show was postponed for Obama’s Afghanistan speech I know that the foreign policy decisions are more important and it was interesting to watch. And it is interesting to see his West Point audience. He didn’t fudge anything which is refreshing – he admitted to corruption of Afghanistan government and the distraction of Iraq. He went on a bit too long at the end and “let me be clear’ which he inserts in every speech is worthy of a drinking game. Still I wanted my dance show and was surprised Fox actually pre-empted something on their regular channel. But I guess it was about war and stuff, so they treat it better than health policy.
SYTYCD. Top 10 show. It was a good show. Nothing stood out too much except Jacob/Ellenore pairing. They actually managed a good quickstep and had a fabulous Sonya jazz number that was worthy of their garden dance. I don’t like that YouTube clips are not stable links. I wish Fox put out a DVD of great routines or something. Nothing else really stood out for me.
For the final reading in my Basic Composition classes I assigned the article called “From frying pan into the fire.” I one of my classes the students didn’t really know the phrase, which is a bit scary. I mean they could technically figure it out logically but they refuse to use their brains.
We found out today that Sasha had laparoscopic appendectomy last weekend and is still in the hospital recovering. He didn’t really have appendicitis, just an intestine inflammation but since they were doing exploratory surgery, they figured they might as well take it out. Still, surgery is still surgery and I’m glad we found out after the fact so I didn’t have to worry too much.
We set up the Wii that Papa got for himself for his birthday. Well, really his parents paid for it with their birthday check. So we were playing Wii for the first time. It was really fun. I tried some tennis and some bowling before Mama commandeered the remote control and was just playing herself.
My dance show was postponed for Obama’s Afghanistan speech I know that the foreign policy decisions are more important and it was interesting to watch. And it is interesting to see his West Point audience. He didn’t fudge anything which is refreshing – he admitted to corruption of Afghanistan government and the distraction of Iraq. He went on a bit too long at the end and “let me be clear’ which he inserts in every speech is worthy of a drinking game. Still I wanted my dance show and was surprised Fox actually pre-empted something on their regular channel. But I guess it was about war and stuff, so they treat it better than health policy.
SYTYCD. Top 10 show. It was a good show. Nothing stood out too much except Jacob/Ellenore pairing. They actually managed a good quickstep and had a fabulous Sonya jazz number that was worthy of their garden dance. I don’t like that YouTube clips are not stable links. I wish Fox put out a DVD of great routines or something. Nothing else really stood out for me.
