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Thursday, August 11, 2011
Aug. 11th, 2011 11:59 pmWe finally have a new textbook for the Basic Comp class I’m teaching in the fall. About time too, I was getting sick of old essays. And a few essays I actually read before for fun, on my own time, like Gladwell’s piece from the New Yorker last October about Tweeter, revolution and social change. (I will need to have students research about Iran’s Green Revolution and a little on what happened in Egypt too). And the Intro from Kristof and WuDunn’s book “Half the Sky”(I love that book). I think, just looking at the table of context is that I want one sequence to focus on social change with technology angle. Maybe. I really need to skim all the articles first. But I will do these two definitely at least. Then there is medical technology articles I will use in the second half of the semester.
Belkin’s article on babies genetically engineered to help save their sick kids, which I taught before, would go great with a new article by Lauren Slater’s “Who Holds the Clicker.” It is about brain surgery for patients with psychiatric disorders and the ethics of helping people with the technology that might potentially control them. I like Slater’s articles because they always present many sides and the case study in this article was really helped to control his OCD. And I like her writing style too.
I got a haircut this morning – it is shoulder length now with layers, about 3-4 inches shorter than before. There was so drama with my Mom about the highlights. I never colored my hair or did anything to it but it is really time to start because of the grey hair (in my family we get grey hair pretty young). And today when the hairdresser suggested highlights I actually thought that it was time. But Mama, who was with me, didn’t want to wait the extra time and she is insistent that I don’t need them yet since I have nice dark thick hair that should not be spoiled by chemicals, as she put it. It is really useless to argue with my mother, she is a difficult person most of the time. But next time I go, I think, I will get the highlights.
Amusing story - When Papa came home, he said hello and I waited for him to mention the haircut – it is three or four inches shorter at least – but, of course, he is a guy, so he didn’t really notice even as he was looking directly at me. And then, hilariously, he asked when I will go to the hairdressers before school starts to coordinate some dates. I just told him to look at me again and then we laughed about it.
I paid bills, changed appointments and did other administrative things today. While I was doing that I looked at my planner and realized that I start teaching on August 29. That is two and a half weeks. Where did the summer go? I need to work on my law class syllabus some more and first week of lectures. It is actually soon!
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Belkin’s article on babies genetically engineered to help save their sick kids, which I taught before, would go great with a new article by Lauren Slater’s “Who Holds the Clicker.” It is about brain surgery for patients with psychiatric disorders and the ethics of helping people with the technology that might potentially control them. I like Slater’s articles because they always present many sides and the case study in this article was really helped to control his OCD. And I like her writing style too.
I got a haircut this morning – it is shoulder length now with layers, about 3-4 inches shorter than before. There was so drama with my Mom about the highlights. I never colored my hair or did anything to it but it is really time to start because of the grey hair (in my family we get grey hair pretty young). And today when the hairdresser suggested highlights I actually thought that it was time. But Mama, who was with me, didn’t want to wait the extra time and she is insistent that I don’t need them yet since I have nice dark thick hair that should not be spoiled by chemicals, as she put it. It is really useless to argue with my mother, she is a difficult person most of the time. But next time I go, I think, I will get the highlights.
Amusing story - When Papa came home, he said hello and I waited for him to mention the haircut – it is three or four inches shorter at least – but, of course, he is a guy, so he didn’t really notice even as he was looking directly at me. And then, hilariously, he asked when I will go to the hairdressers before school starts to coordinate some dates. I just told him to look at me again and then we laughed about it.
I paid bills, changed appointments and did other administrative things today. While I was doing that I looked at my planner and realized that I start teaching on August 29. That is two and a half weeks. Where did the summer go? I need to work on my law class syllabus some more and first week of lectures. It is actually soon!
( SYTYCD Season 8 Finale )