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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Apr. 26th, 2011 11:00 pmI do love last week of the writing class. The students discuss the final reading and take final exam on Thursday. All I have to do is collect the folders and write the exam. Hard work will start on Friday with more grading.
It was so warm, I wore a skirt to work. I rarely wear skirts. But I did with a pink shirt too. And stockings.
One of my history students, who didn’t do so well on the first paper, sent me a rough draft on his second. The problem was, as I discovered while reading this paper that didn’t really answer the assignment question, was that he really just plagiarized his paper from Wikipedia of all things. How think is he? Since it was the rough draft, I just sent him a stern email and gave him steps on how to actually answer the assignment question. But it was ridiculous.
Papa started watching the new “Doctor Who” episode in the evening and I could not resist seeing it again. We took a break at 8:30 to east some Russian easter bread Mama got at the store since Passover ended at 8:30 and we could eat bread again. Yay.
Here is the Dreamwidth meme that has been going around since I like it:
Why did you join Dreamwidth?
A friend of mine asked if I wanted a code. I said why not. I never joined LifeJournal before nor was I really active online other than lurking and reading a lot. But this seemed a place to start. And I wanted to catch up with my friend too. I got the code in the summer of 2009 but I didn’t start posting until September of 2009, using the start of the Jewish New Year 5770 as a starting date since I wanted a specific goal to keep me posting. My goal was to write about my day, every day, to keep track of my days and also to finally read the Torah, the first five books of the Bible while making comments on it. I did “WTF Bible moment of the day” for a while in the fall of 2009, and I actually accomplished that goal. And over time, I joined in more communities and got more friends. And started writing fanfiction too. So I feel like a bigger part of an online world now.
Why did you choose the journal name?
Journal name or my username? Journal name originally was 5770 since the plan was to write for a year and 5770 was the Jewish year from September 2009 to September 2010. Once September 2010 hit, I changed the name and the color of my page. As for my username, it is an in-joke between Bear, my significant other since college, and me. Bear is not his real name but I actually call him Bear in real life. I rarely use his real name with him (only in public or if I’m mad at him). He, in turn, calls me Shorty – which is an in-joke because I’m 5 feet 8 inches or 170 cm and only 2 inches shorter than him. We have fun with this. I can never think of names and titles and I really couldn’t think of something that described me, so I just combined the two. But in using ‘bearshorty’ as my online name, it stopped really being about the two of us and just became my name. And yes, sometimes the feminist in me rolls her eyes because my online identity began with the relationship and is boy-dependant (and my default icon reflects that relationship) but Bear and I have been together since we were eighteen and our lives are very intertwined while still remaining fairly independent, so I never feel like anything but myself even as part of a couple. I think being in a long distance relationship for so long also guaranteed that I, as a person, would not become lost in it. So that is the story of my username.
It was so warm, I wore a skirt to work. I rarely wear skirts. But I did with a pink shirt too. And stockings.
One of my history students, who didn’t do so well on the first paper, sent me a rough draft on his second. The problem was, as I discovered while reading this paper that didn’t really answer the assignment question, was that he really just plagiarized his paper from Wikipedia of all things. How think is he? Since it was the rough draft, I just sent him a stern email and gave him steps on how to actually answer the assignment question. But it was ridiculous.
Papa started watching the new “Doctor Who” episode in the evening and I could not resist seeing it again. We took a break at 8:30 to east some Russian easter bread Mama got at the store since Passover ended at 8:30 and we could eat bread again. Yay.
Here is the Dreamwidth meme that has been going around since I like it:
Why did you join Dreamwidth?
A friend of mine asked if I wanted a code. I said why not. I never joined LifeJournal before nor was I really active online other than lurking and reading a lot. But this seemed a place to start. And I wanted to catch up with my friend too. I got the code in the summer of 2009 but I didn’t start posting until September of 2009, using the start of the Jewish New Year 5770 as a starting date since I wanted a specific goal to keep me posting. My goal was to write about my day, every day, to keep track of my days and also to finally read the Torah, the first five books of the Bible while making comments on it. I did “WTF Bible moment of the day” for a while in the fall of 2009, and I actually accomplished that goal. And over time, I joined in more communities and got more friends. And started writing fanfiction too. So I feel like a bigger part of an online world now.
Why did you choose the journal name?
Journal name or my username? Journal name originally was 5770 since the plan was to write for a year and 5770 was the Jewish year from September 2009 to September 2010. Once September 2010 hit, I changed the name and the color of my page. As for my username, it is an in-joke between Bear, my significant other since college, and me. Bear is not his real name but I actually call him Bear in real life. I rarely use his real name with him (only in public or if I’m mad at him). He, in turn, calls me Shorty – which is an in-joke because I’m 5 feet 8 inches or 170 cm and only 2 inches shorter than him. We have fun with this. I can never think of names and titles and I really couldn’t think of something that described me, so I just combined the two. But in using ‘bearshorty’ as my online name, it stopped really being about the two of us and just became my name. And yes, sometimes the feminist in me rolls her eyes because my online identity began with the relationship and is boy-dependant (and my default icon reflects that relationship) but Bear and I have been together since we were eighteen and our lives are very intertwined while still remaining fairly independent, so I never feel like anything but myself even as part of a couple. I think being in a long distance relationship for so long also guaranteed that I, as a person, would not become lost in it. So that is the story of my username.