Friday, September 9, 2011
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bearshortyHappy Birthday, Yeva!
Friday is not my longest workday but it feels like it since I need to get up at 6:10 to carpool to University. I got an egg on a bagel sandwich and tea at Au Bon Pain and read the National Geographic for breakfast time and then took the bus to my teaching campus and set up there. I had a nice quiet hour and a bit before my morning office hours and I just sat in a café and worked on my RS Games fic.
Today is a rough draft day so I just basically handed out my worksheets and I then could work on grading their homework and looking over the first rough drafts. I need to comment on draft by Tuesday. And I had a student actually come to my afternoon office hours to work out logistics of her missing a week of class because she is going to India for a wedding. Oh, and it occurred to me today that I can actually fix the problem of students having that stupid space between paragraphs but turning on my laptop which I carry with me and showing it to students who still didn’t figure it out on rough drafts. I think I needed to explain it to one student three times since it is obviously so hard to remember which very logical buttons to press. Now I will have to do this in my other class too.
I capped my work day by heading to the main library and reading my Roman law textbook for an hour and a half. Roman family law and marriage law is my favorite part, I think. Very interesting.
After dinner, I got to go rollerblading. I had to stick to the parking lot since the beach road is still too sandy but I was just happy not to be sitting down.
This article made me all emotional today. How an astronaut saw 9/11 from space .
Torchwood S4E10 Why RTD? Why do you have to kill favorite characters? Esther was so awesome. I did laugh at Rex being immortal (although that probably just applies when he is on the planet). But for all people Jack gets to be stuck with, it has to be Rex? Why it couldn’t have been Ianto or someone Jack loves. Or Esther. That would have been awesome. When Jack revived and took his deep breath, even though I knew it was coming from the trailer, I cheering and clapped my hands involuntarily. So this finale did resolve a lot of questions. But this series did not quite gel. It should have been fewer episodes. Andy is so sweet; I’m glad he continues to be part of Torchwood. I also think that there should have been more in the series about Jack dealing with mortality and a little more about his choice to die here (since he didn’t know if he would come back). The ending was a bit disjointed there. And lots of deaths, of course. So overall, I did like watching it but it is not their best work and I don’t think I would rewatch the whole thing. A couple of episodes, maybe. And I still miss Ianto. By the way – huge plothole – Jack’s blood is not special, it is not what made him immortal, Jack even said it. And yet the Blessing somehow got immortality and then mortality from the blood?
Friday is not my longest workday but it feels like it since I need to get up at 6:10 to carpool to University. I got an egg on a bagel sandwich and tea at Au Bon Pain and read the National Geographic for breakfast time and then took the bus to my teaching campus and set up there. I had a nice quiet hour and a bit before my morning office hours and I just sat in a café and worked on my RS Games fic.
Today is a rough draft day so I just basically handed out my worksheets and I then could work on grading their homework and looking over the first rough drafts. I need to comment on draft by Tuesday. And I had a student actually come to my afternoon office hours to work out logistics of her missing a week of class because she is going to India for a wedding. Oh, and it occurred to me today that I can actually fix the problem of students having that stupid space between paragraphs but turning on my laptop which I carry with me and showing it to students who still didn’t figure it out on rough drafts. I think I needed to explain it to one student three times since it is obviously so hard to remember which very logical buttons to press. Now I will have to do this in my other class too.
I capped my work day by heading to the main library and reading my Roman law textbook for an hour and a half. Roman family law and marriage law is my favorite part, I think. Very interesting.
After dinner, I got to go rollerblading. I had to stick to the parking lot since the beach road is still too sandy but I was just happy not to be sitting down.
This article made me all emotional today. How an astronaut saw 9/11 from space .
Torchwood S4E10 Why RTD? Why do you have to kill favorite characters? Esther was so awesome. I did laugh at Rex being immortal (although that probably just applies when he is on the planet). But for all people Jack gets to be stuck with, it has to be Rex? Why it couldn’t have been Ianto or someone Jack loves. Or Esther. That would have been awesome. When Jack revived and took his deep breath, even though I knew it was coming from the trailer, I cheering and clapped my hands involuntarily. So this finale did resolve a lot of questions. But this series did not quite gel. It should have been fewer episodes. Andy is so sweet; I’m glad he continues to be part of Torchwood. I also think that there should have been more in the series about Jack dealing with mortality and a little more about his choice to die here (since he didn’t know if he would come back). The ending was a bit disjointed there. And lots of deaths, of course. So overall, I did like watching it but it is not their best work and I don’t think I would rewatch the whole thing. A couple of episodes, maybe. And I still miss Ianto. By the way – huge plothole – Jack’s blood is not special, it is not what made him immortal, Jack even said it. And yet the Blessing somehow got immortality and then mortality from the blood?