Monday, January 27, 2014
Jan. 27th, 2014 09:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyI need to exercise more. I have to go up a fairly steep hill when I go up Local College and various stairs and today it was much more difficult than usual. I barely been outside walking in January over my break and it shows. I really need to do master that hill again.
I taught a class on Martin Luther today and on gender in Ancient Greece. The day was nice overall but pretty tiring. It was nice to come home, eat some pain yogurt with honey and a banana and catch up on "Downtown Abbey". I also watched "Sherlock: The Sign of Three" after dinner (I made angel hair pasta with eggplant), which was the biggest fanfic put on the screen I've ever seen. Lots of squealing on my part. So much mushiness and just wonderful dialogue and situation. And cute moments all around. And I adore Mary very much. The writers really did a great job at that dynamic, since adding Mary just added awesomeness.
I finished The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling today. The hold came up in the library last week so I downloaded it to my Kindle. It was strange because most of the characters are not very likable and the man who died which kickstarts the book was a bit too saintly, but all the characters were also very three dimensional and I wanted to keep on reading. I was actually reading much faster as the book progressed and I wanted to know where the story was going. People were not pleasant but that was because they were just people, selfish and overly self-concerned regular people. I found it realistic in a lot of ways - people's petty concerns and lives. So in the end I think the book will stay with me and I think it was crafted very well.
I suppose I should go look at some more Writing Samples now before I go to sleep. I need to come up with the Assignment question for Paper 1 for tomorrow but my brain is fried, so I will most likely do that on the train tomorrow.
I taught a class on Martin Luther today and on gender in Ancient Greece. The day was nice overall but pretty tiring. It was nice to come home, eat some pain yogurt with honey and a banana and catch up on "Downtown Abbey". I also watched "Sherlock: The Sign of Three" after dinner (I made angel hair pasta with eggplant), which was the biggest fanfic put on the screen I've ever seen. Lots of squealing on my part. So much mushiness and just wonderful dialogue and situation. And cute moments all around. And I adore Mary very much. The writers really did a great job at that dynamic, since adding Mary just added awesomeness.
I finished The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling today. The hold came up in the library last week so I downloaded it to my Kindle. It was strange because most of the characters are not very likable and the man who died which kickstarts the book was a bit too saintly, but all the characters were also very three dimensional and I wanted to keep on reading. I was actually reading much faster as the book progressed and I wanted to know where the story was going. People were not pleasant but that was because they were just people, selfish and overly self-concerned regular people. I found it realistic in a lot of ways - people's petty concerns and lives. So in the end I think the book will stay with me and I think it was crafted very well.
I suppose I should go look at some more Writing Samples now before I go to sleep. I need to come up with the Assignment question for Paper 1 for tomorrow but my brain is fried, so I will most likely do that on the train tomorrow.