Thursday. January 8, 2015
Jan. 8th, 2015 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyThe weather is freezing so I haven't been outside since Monday. Usually I take Tanya for her long nap in the pram in the afternoons, getting in my own walk, but since it is dangerously cold for babies, she's been napping on me for the most part, at home. But the good side to this was that I can settle with her in the living room, put my TV headphone ears on and watch TV.
So, I caught up on Season 1 of 'Agents of Shield'. A little back story - I started watching this show from the beginning and I saw 12 episodes in regular broadcast. The first few episodes weren't that great but it did pick up. Just not enough for me to continue watching after the hiatus. I heard that it got really good, especially after the tie-in with Captain America 2 movie and I got spoiled for one twist. My Dad kept watching it and really liking it. But I didn't have too much time for movies and catching up.
Then last month I saw that the show was added to Netflix. And Bear got a copy of Captain America 2 in the library. After I watched the movie I was inspired to watch the show again from episode 13 on. And I pretty much binged on it. It got really, really good after that episode because it became not stop serialization with excellent twists and great character development and wonderful storytelling.
I'm actually very happy I'm just catching up since I could just watch the whole thing, without waiting. I'll just wait for Season 2 to get to Netflix next year. I definitely prefer watching the whole season at my pace.
We don't have cable since it's so expensive and I watch most things online anyway. Bear used to have a computer program to watch basic broadcast channels on his computer. It broke apparently. So I just said that we should get a TV antenna. I watch 'Glee' live (or at least I will attempt it because Tanya is not great at going to sleep and needs me often until about 10pm). So Bear picked one up on sale for less than $20 and we have such excellent picture quality now. I don't know why getting an antenna didn't occur to me before.
I start work on the 22nd, so I've been reading articles in the new book edition - there are many I haven't read before. I need to figure out 6 articles I want to teach and the themes for the essay topics I will give. So far I read an article on technology in education, which was really a criticism of our unevolving hierarchical education system; an article on the link between the Ivi League colleges like Harvard and Princeton to Wall Street (Wall Street recruits all majors heavily there so over 30% go work for Wall Street); and an article on the food industry designing food that is pretty bad for our health that sells well, not really caring about ethics. I really love the textbook for the writing classes. I did skip a promising article on plagiarism and creativity because it would be a bit too postmodern for the students and there are way too many cultural references for 18 year olds to get.
So, I caught up on Season 1 of 'Agents of Shield'. A little back story - I started watching this show from the beginning and I saw 12 episodes in regular broadcast. The first few episodes weren't that great but it did pick up. Just not enough for me to continue watching after the hiatus. I heard that it got really good, especially after the tie-in with Captain America 2 movie and I got spoiled for one twist. My Dad kept watching it and really liking it. But I didn't have too much time for movies and catching up.
Then last month I saw that the show was added to Netflix. And Bear got a copy of Captain America 2 in the library. After I watched the movie I was inspired to watch the show again from episode 13 on. And I pretty much binged on it. It got really, really good after that episode because it became not stop serialization with excellent twists and great character development and wonderful storytelling.
I'm actually very happy I'm just catching up since I could just watch the whole thing, without waiting. I'll just wait for Season 2 to get to Netflix next year. I definitely prefer watching the whole season at my pace.
We don't have cable since it's so expensive and I watch most things online anyway. Bear used to have a computer program to watch basic broadcast channels on his computer. It broke apparently. So I just said that we should get a TV antenna. I watch 'Glee' live (or at least I will attempt it because Tanya is not great at going to sleep and needs me often until about 10pm). So Bear picked one up on sale for less than $20 and we have such excellent picture quality now. I don't know why getting an antenna didn't occur to me before.
I start work on the 22nd, so I've been reading articles in the new book edition - there are many I haven't read before. I need to figure out 6 articles I want to teach and the themes for the essay topics I will give. So far I read an article on technology in education, which was really a criticism of our unevolving hierarchical education system; an article on the link between the Ivi League colleges like Harvard and Princeton to Wall Street (Wall Street recruits all majors heavily there so over 30% go work for Wall Street); and an article on the food industry designing food that is pretty bad for our health that sells well, not really caring about ethics. I really love the textbook for the writing classes. I did skip a promising article on plagiarism and creativity because it would be a bit too postmodern for the students and there are way too many cultural references for 18 year olds to get.