Friday, September 16, 2011
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bearshortyDespite the fact that I need to get up at 6:10 on Fridays so I can commute with my father, I think Friday is turning into my favorite day of my working week. I like eating breakfast at Au Bon Pain at 7 something. I like getting to my teaching campus and having a really quite hour and a half to myself to do some work and/or write my story before I got to my office hours at 9:30. And during my office hour in the afternoon, it is just me on the office floor so I get piece and quite to have my stack and catch up on the internet a bit. And I like heading for the comfy chairs in the library. Today, I was too tired and too crampy to grade more, so I read fiction.
I was writing my story this morning and it made me really sad – just a mood of it – all wintery and stuff. I really don’t want to cry – it is just a story I’m making up here. I think I’m just in a sad mood lately as so many things get to me and I’m not an overly emotional person.
This is the result of the discussion in my classes today while setting up Gladwell’s article: All my students have Facebook, about 4 out of 27 have Twitter. Maybe 2 out of 27 heard anything about Egypt this year, don’t know anything about Iran, not one heard of London riots and only a couple know that we sort of bombed Libya but they don’t know who specifically – rebels or gov’t. Oh, 18 years olds. It is not hard to read the first page of a newspaper. I assigned them research tasks to look up Egypt and Iran and Libya and London and the role social media played or perceived as played in their unrest.
Michael Cunningham “A Home at the End of the World.” I picked up the copy at Uni library today – I can have it until January at least so better with deadlines than local public library. I’m liking it so far. Each chapter is from the first person POV of a different character, which is interesting but his narrative voice is not that different from chapter to chapter. But I do like the prose and the mood of it.
Highlander Shortcuts - one of my favorite fic fests just opened its sign-ups and while I’m thinking about it, it intimidates me the most – so many amazing authors there. So I don’t think I’ll have the courage to do it. But I am looking forward to reading it.
An article on use of Kindle .
I was writing my story this morning and it made me really sad – just a mood of it – all wintery and stuff. I really don’t want to cry – it is just a story I’m making up here. I think I’m just in a sad mood lately as so many things get to me and I’m not an overly emotional person.
This is the result of the discussion in my classes today while setting up Gladwell’s article: All my students have Facebook, about 4 out of 27 have Twitter. Maybe 2 out of 27 heard anything about Egypt this year, don’t know anything about Iran, not one heard of London riots and only a couple know that we sort of bombed Libya but they don’t know who specifically – rebels or gov’t. Oh, 18 years olds. It is not hard to read the first page of a newspaper. I assigned them research tasks to look up Egypt and Iran and Libya and London and the role social media played or perceived as played in their unrest.
Michael Cunningham “A Home at the End of the World.” I picked up the copy at Uni library today – I can have it until January at least so better with deadlines than local public library. I’m liking it so far. Each chapter is from the first person POV of a different character, which is interesting but his narrative voice is not that different from chapter to chapter. But I do like the prose and the mood of it.
Highlander Shortcuts - one of my favorite fic fests just opened its sign-ups and while I’m thinking about it, it intimidates me the most – so many amazing authors there. So I don’t think I’ll have the courage to do it. But I am looking forward to reading it.
An article on use of Kindle .
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Date: 2011-09-20 03:06 pm (UTC)I think I’m just in a sad mood lately as so many things get to me and I’m not an overly emotional person. I get like this sometimes too. I’ll be writing something and it’s so sad that I literally cry … I don’t know why, but I think it’s therapeutic :D
I have no clue what is going on with our youth, but that is just … sad.