16 Kislev/3 December, 2009
Dec. 3rd, 2009 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyMy cold has moved lower into my vocal cords so I now sound like I have a cold or how Phoebe from “Friends” would have put it, all sexy voice. I actually feel a bit better overall, just the voice is a bit weird. When did I start liking chamomile tea?
I spent the morning sorting various bureaucratic stuff that I’ve been forgetting to take care of, like cancelling annual conference which I’m not going to go to but I’ve registered for and filling out department application for some conference refunds. The first one was actually relatively painless. All I had do was to pull up the email receipt with cancellation instruction, type up in writing that I wanted to cancel it and then just email it. I lost $20 for all that, but at least I got most of the money back. For the department form I will have to photocopy a bunch of receipts and credit card statements on Monday.
It felt really useless going in to teach; a monkey can do it today. The students were discussing the reading for the final exam and I was not allowed to chime in at all. That was fine in one class, where they were capable of sustaining a discussion and having more or less intelligent opinions. The other class is still a bit less college ready. They couldn’t talk too much or go deep with the text and has very stupid tangents. Well, all they have to do is pass the final.
I started actually playing Wii Fit and trying out Yoga, strength, balance and aerobics. I just tried individual exercises. I do like the yoga and aerobics and the personal instructor. It looks like it can sustain my interest. My goal is 30 minutes a day. I won’t sweat too much on it but I will move and get my brain to wake up and fill with energy, hopefully.
I watched “Food Inc” today since Netflix put it online. It really makes one want to eat just organic foods. I read Michael Pollan’s stuff in the writing program so the whole movie was not a surprise but I did learn something. Like the fact that tomatoes in the supermarket are picked green around the world and then make red by a certain gas. I really want to just get farmer’s market tomatoes after that. Or the fact that cows who eat just corn have higher instances of very bad e-coli. If they just had a bit of grass the level of bacteria would go down. Now, most of the beef is soaked in ammonia a bit to kill the bacteria. And poor chickens make so big they can’t stand up. Organic food in general just seems better. And 1 in 3 Americans born after 2000 will have early onset diabetes because all crappy food is cheap and available.
Bones S5E9. This episode was written specifically to cross-promote “Avatar” by Fox. And it did a good job at the promotion and didn’t impose too much on the episode but provides good focus on Hodgins and Sweets and Fisher (one of the interns) who were skipping work in creative ways to stand on the movie line. And it actually got me more curious about the movie, whereas before I was sort of meh about it. Hodgins’ Angela tattoo made an appearance along with a nice arm of Hodgins. Overall, good episode even if the dead body in the beginning was too gross. The only thing I didn’t like was Sweets actually kissing the sci-fi girl like he had no will power at all. Yes, we learn the special lesson that quality is better than quantity but Sweets, as the character was set up, should not even had that dilemma in a first place. Maybe it is a guy thing.
I spent the morning sorting various bureaucratic stuff that I’ve been forgetting to take care of, like cancelling annual conference which I’m not going to go to but I’ve registered for and filling out department application for some conference refunds. The first one was actually relatively painless. All I had do was to pull up the email receipt with cancellation instruction, type up in writing that I wanted to cancel it and then just email it. I lost $20 for all that, but at least I got most of the money back. For the department form I will have to photocopy a bunch of receipts and credit card statements on Monday.
It felt really useless going in to teach; a monkey can do it today. The students were discussing the reading for the final exam and I was not allowed to chime in at all. That was fine in one class, where they were capable of sustaining a discussion and having more or less intelligent opinions. The other class is still a bit less college ready. They couldn’t talk too much or go deep with the text and has very stupid tangents. Well, all they have to do is pass the final.
I started actually playing Wii Fit and trying out Yoga, strength, balance and aerobics. I just tried individual exercises. I do like the yoga and aerobics and the personal instructor. It looks like it can sustain my interest. My goal is 30 minutes a day. I won’t sweat too much on it but I will move and get my brain to wake up and fill with energy, hopefully.
I watched “Food Inc” today since Netflix put it online. It really makes one want to eat just organic foods. I read Michael Pollan’s stuff in the writing program so the whole movie was not a surprise but I did learn something. Like the fact that tomatoes in the supermarket are picked green around the world and then make red by a certain gas. I really want to just get farmer’s market tomatoes after that. Or the fact that cows who eat just corn have higher instances of very bad e-coli. If they just had a bit of grass the level of bacteria would go down. Now, most of the beef is soaked in ammonia a bit to kill the bacteria. And poor chickens make so big they can’t stand up. Organic food in general just seems better. And 1 in 3 Americans born after 2000 will have early onset diabetes because all crappy food is cheap and available.
Bones S5E9. This episode was written specifically to cross-promote “Avatar” by Fox. And it did a good job at the promotion and didn’t impose too much on the episode but provides good focus on Hodgins and Sweets and Fisher (one of the interns) who were skipping work in creative ways to stand on the movie line. And it actually got me more curious about the movie, whereas before I was sort of meh about it. Hodgins’ Angela tattoo made an appearance along with a nice arm of Hodgins. Overall, good episode even if the dead body in the beginning was too gross. The only thing I didn’t like was Sweets actually kissing the sci-fi girl like he had no will power at all. Yes, we learn the special lesson that quality is better than quantity but Sweets, as the character was set up, should not even had that dilemma in a first place. Maybe it is a guy thing.
