Monday, October 3, 2011
Oct. 3rd, 2011 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyToday is twelve years since my grandmother Tanya died. She was my favorite person in the whole world and today I just missed her terribly. I listened to Mozart’s Requiem in the morning, since that is my favorite piece of classical music and suited my mood. After work, Mama and I stopped by the cemetery (we always pass it on the way to Local College).
It’s Monday and that means a new list of work related things to do. I photocopied and graded and came up with the quiz for Wednesday. True story: At the end of the class before the quiz I put the sources for that quiz on the Powerpoint slide for the students to see and prepare. And I talked about it for a minute or more. And I still got an email tonight asking what did they have to prepare for the quiz. Head-desk. Listening is a problem for many.
My lectures today were on Han China and Justinian and his law. I’m looking forward to my law class so much now since we are in the medieval period and I’m on much firmer ground. I felt today went really well. They had to pick their research paper topics for today and I have three guys doing papers on prisons.
I bought two binders today and finally organized all the lectures for the two classes. I had lots of printed lectures from last semester and primary sources and they were just sitting in a pile. Well after an hour with a whole puncher I finally organized. It feels nice.
House S8E1. I always love episodes where it is just House. I liked this prison episode too from psychotic roommate who ended up helping to the doctor who will end up working for him. I like the actress better here than in “Brothers and Sisters.” And she is much more interesting character than 13 would ever be. The writers also addressed the criticisms from last season by making sure to point out that House knew Rachel was not in the house when he crashed the car in and he saw everyone leave. And that he chose to go to prison as a penance of sorts. (After spending three months on the beach). I did like that the episode ended with House still in prison because it would be in character to risk everything for a mystery. I am glad House is back on my TV. HIMYM on the other hand continues to be uninspiring.
It’s Monday and that means a new list of work related things to do. I photocopied and graded and came up with the quiz for Wednesday. True story: At the end of the class before the quiz I put the sources for that quiz on the Powerpoint slide for the students to see and prepare. And I talked about it for a minute or more. And I still got an email tonight asking what did they have to prepare for the quiz. Head-desk. Listening is a problem for many.
My lectures today were on Han China and Justinian and his law. I’m looking forward to my law class so much now since we are in the medieval period and I’m on much firmer ground. I felt today went really well. They had to pick their research paper topics for today and I have three guys doing papers on prisons.
I bought two binders today and finally organized all the lectures for the two classes. I had lots of printed lectures from last semester and primary sources and they were just sitting in a pile. Well after an hour with a whole puncher I finally organized. It feels nice.
House S8E1. I always love episodes where it is just House. I liked this prison episode too from psychotic roommate who ended up helping to the doctor who will end up working for him. I like the actress better here than in “Brothers and Sisters.” And she is much more interesting character than 13 would ever be. The writers also addressed the criticisms from last season by making sure to point out that House knew Rachel was not in the house when he crashed the car in and he saw everyone leave. And that he chose to go to prison as a penance of sorts. (After spending three months on the beach). I did like that the episode ended with House still in prison because it would be in character to risk everything for a mystery. I am glad House is back on my TV. HIMYM on the other hand continues to be uninspiring.
