Sunday, October 2 2011
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bearshortyI woke up this morning with a runny nose and my eyes felt like I was getting sick. I think it is just a slight cold. I took Tylenol just in case and drank lots of tea with lemon and honey. I was supposed to go to Brooklyn to visit my grandmother but I figured I shouldn’t track germs to a rehab/nursing home full of elderly. I worked on my lecture for tomorrow instead. Fingers crossed that I don’t get too sick – I really can’t afford downtime during a full semester.
Work wise I also started grading Exam 1 for law class. They do well in an essay based on monograph and lectures but significantly less so on an essay focused on the primary sources. But they seemed to have learned something. As I’m thinking about my lectures and reading for the second half of the semester, I really think this class is coming together. I added an extra primary source reading for them today on Corpus Iuris Civilis. I’m really glad I’m getting to teach this class.
On the fun front, RS Games started yesterday. Yay. This was the first organized contest I participated in and it was fun writing for it and being part of a team. Go Team Remus! And now there is a month of stories and art. I can’t vote on anything but I get to read something every day. The art has been really good so far, I don’t usually respond to art as much as stories but for the last two days I found liking the art more. I even saved it to my computer.
Mama’s friend Galina might visit from Miami again later this month and I’m actually looking forward to it. The woman is so full of energy and she just brings good vibes with her.
I watched “Walk on Water,” an Israeli movie Netflix recommended to me. I really liked it. It is a story of a Mossad agent that has to befriend the grandchildren of the Nazi war criminal to track him down while coping with a personal tragedy. I just found all the characters interesting and there is beautiful scenery of Turkey, Israel and Berlin. This movies asks many questions and does it intelligently. All characters feel very well formed.
Speaking of Netlix. SNL did a great spoof . (One thing, though, NBC, how come your commercials don’t have buffering problems, just your clips? I probably need to install the new Firefox 5. It plays fine in Explorer.)
Dexter S6E1. I think I will find this year’s religious theme interesting. I did like Dexter’s questions about religion and the idea how hard it is to explain. And people’s confusion when they find out that he believes in nothing but a code. Dexter does want more normalcy for Harrison. Since the murders this year have religious meaning behind them, Harrison’s schooling might intersect since Dexter will be learning too. Coming for an atheist childhood and where I am not interested in actually knowing if God exists or anything like that, I can relate to Dexter’s curiosity about religion. On Friday will be one day per year that I go to synagogue and I do the prayers but religion for me always been a connection to the past on the social and cultural level – it was never about religious devotion to God. That is why Judaism suits me and why I’m glad I was born in it – it is a religion about how to live the life you have and how to be a good person and it is not about afterlife. I also attend church on Christmas with Bear’s family and that is purely social observance for me since I am not a Christian. I like studying religion and I know a lot about it, so I think this season will certainly prove interesting to me.
Aw, Debra, not realizing Quinn will propose. I can’t believe LaGuerta and Battista are divorced just like that after all their drama.
Dexter at his high school reunion was hysterical with popularity, and football and the sex. Hee.
Work wise I also started grading Exam 1 for law class. They do well in an essay based on monograph and lectures but significantly less so on an essay focused on the primary sources. But they seemed to have learned something. As I’m thinking about my lectures and reading for the second half of the semester, I really think this class is coming together. I added an extra primary source reading for them today on Corpus Iuris Civilis. I’m really glad I’m getting to teach this class.
On the fun front, RS Games started yesterday. Yay. This was the first organized contest I participated in and it was fun writing for it and being part of a team. Go Team Remus! And now there is a month of stories and art. I can’t vote on anything but I get to read something every day. The art has been really good so far, I don’t usually respond to art as much as stories but for the last two days I found liking the art more. I even saved it to my computer.
Mama’s friend Galina might visit from Miami again later this month and I’m actually looking forward to it. The woman is so full of energy and she just brings good vibes with her.
I watched “Walk on Water,” an Israeli movie Netflix recommended to me. I really liked it. It is a story of a Mossad agent that has to befriend the grandchildren of the Nazi war criminal to track him down while coping with a personal tragedy. I just found all the characters interesting and there is beautiful scenery of Turkey, Israel and Berlin. This movies asks many questions and does it intelligently. All characters feel very well formed.
Speaking of Netlix. SNL did a great spoof . (One thing, though, NBC, how come your commercials don’t have buffering problems, just your clips? I probably need to install the new Firefox 5. It plays fine in Explorer.)
Dexter S6E1. I think I will find this year’s religious theme interesting. I did like Dexter’s questions about religion and the idea how hard it is to explain. And people’s confusion when they find out that he believes in nothing but a code. Dexter does want more normalcy for Harrison. Since the murders this year have religious meaning behind them, Harrison’s schooling might intersect since Dexter will be learning too. Coming for an atheist childhood and where I am not interested in actually knowing if God exists or anything like that, I can relate to Dexter’s curiosity about religion. On Friday will be one day per year that I go to synagogue and I do the prayers but religion for me always been a connection to the past on the social and cultural level – it was never about religious devotion to God. That is why Judaism suits me and why I’m glad I was born in it – it is a religion about how to live the life you have and how to be a good person and it is not about afterlife. I also attend church on Christmas with Bear’s family and that is purely social observance for me since I am not a Christian. I like studying religion and I know a lot about it, so I think this season will certainly prove interesting to me.
Aw, Debra, not realizing Quinn will propose. I can’t believe LaGuerta and Battista are divorced just like that after all their drama.
Dexter at his high school reunion was hysterical with popularity, and football and the sex. Hee.