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Saturday, August 11, 2012
Aug. 11th, 2012 11:10 pmLast night I had a giant migraine and went to sleep at 10 (or rather went to bed so it would be nice and dark and quiet and had to put up with assholes outside talking loudly until about midnight). Not much was going on yesterday – I did watch some Olympics like diving and read more.
This morning my head was better but what really helped was going rollerblading. Combination of fresh air and exercise always helps.
I’m getting back in the teaching mode. Work starts in two and three weeks (history is two weeks, writing in three weeks). So I spent some time setting up websites for my classes and looking up rosters and putting together all syllabi and first assignments. I decided I’m going to keep the readings for Basic Composition but tweak the assignments a little to make them understand concepts more. So they will still write their first paper about women and agency in the developing world but we will talk what agency means by getting them to think about their own lives too.
Since the NBC coverage spent like an hour on WWII and England tonight for their Olympic coverage, Mama and I went to the computer and watched rhythmic gymnastics instead. We mainly focused on the Russians and the Belarusian girl. Rhythmic gymnastics are so graceful – it is like dancing and incredible flexibility with props. Gorgeous. Also, the best part of watching it online was no commentators whatsoever. We could just watch the routine. Then I watched Men 10m platform diving. I can’t believe the Olympics are almost over.
This morning my head was better but what really helped was going rollerblading. Combination of fresh air and exercise always helps.
I’m getting back in the teaching mode. Work starts in two and three weeks (history is two weeks, writing in three weeks). So I spent some time setting up websites for my classes and looking up rosters and putting together all syllabi and first assignments. I decided I’m going to keep the readings for Basic Composition but tweak the assignments a little to make them understand concepts more. So they will still write their first paper about women and agency in the developing world but we will talk what agency means by getting them to think about their own lives too.
Since the NBC coverage spent like an hour on WWII and England tonight for their Olympic coverage, Mama and I went to the computer and watched rhythmic gymnastics instead. We mainly focused on the Russians and the Belarusian girl. Rhythmic gymnastics are so graceful – it is like dancing and incredible flexibility with props. Gorgeous. Also, the best part of watching it online was no commentators whatsoever. We could just watch the routine. Then I watched Men 10m platform diving. I can’t believe the Olympics are almost over.