Thursday, April 16, 2015
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bearshortyThis Monday felt like the first real day of spring with blue skies, warm temperatures and lovely sun. And it continued to be nice this whole week. Finally! This has been such a cold, snowy winter that warm weather feels like such a relief.
I have about three weeks left to the semester with two more sets of papers to grade and the final exam. I wrote the last essay question yesterday on the cost/benefit analysis of challenging authority. The end is close. Yay.
This Tuesday my Mom picked Tanya and I up to bring to her house until Saturday. It's been almost a month since the last visit. After working all last weekend - too many papers -I ended up taking Tuesday off and just hanging out and reading.
I'm accidentally reading three books at the same time. When I have a little time, usually during commute, I'm reading Neil Gaiman. It's a regular hardcover. Because at night and if Tanya is napping on me it's easier to read on Kindle, I started 2001:Space Odyssey by Arthur Clarke. My Dad preloaded a bunch of books into my Kindle when he gave it to me as a gift. There is a lot of classic sci-fi. It's how I read Ringworld during last year's commute.
And then a while ago I put Oliver Sacks' An Anthropologist on Mars on hold and it came in last week for my Kindle. So three books at the same time.
I'm enjoying all three but the last Sacks book I read was better and I keep guessing some of Gaiman plots, although there are still many surprises there.
One thing about reading Sacks on Kindle. I was reading the chapter about the colorblind painter and the chapter comes with illustrations of past paintings that were in bright color vs post colorblindness paintings and other examples. However, because I'm reading on Kindle all paintings are black and white and gray, you can't see color in it, you need an actual book for that. But perhaps that he's me to understand a bit of that world view.
Thing that made me laugh so much that I was laughing until tears came out of my eyes: I know there is a word that means misheard lyrics -mondegreen - and last Sunday it made me laugh. My daughter got a new toy on Easter, a toy camera for babies that sings songs and says words. One song counts to 10, has another phrase and then says 'and let's count again'. I was in the kitchen, putting something away, with my husband sitting there eating lunch, Tanya in the high chair playing with that camera. I wasn't really listening or paying attention when I mishear that lyric and hear 'and let's kill the cat'. I can't even hear it the right way now. I just thought it was hysterical. I couldn't stop laughing and it took a while before I could even tell Bear what was so funny. Sometimes brains are funny.
I have about three weeks left to the semester with two more sets of papers to grade and the final exam. I wrote the last essay question yesterday on the cost/benefit analysis of challenging authority. The end is close. Yay.
This Tuesday my Mom picked Tanya and I up to bring to her house until Saturday. It's been almost a month since the last visit. After working all last weekend - too many papers -I ended up taking Tuesday off and just hanging out and reading.
I'm accidentally reading three books at the same time. When I have a little time, usually during commute, I'm reading Neil Gaiman. It's a regular hardcover. Because at night and if Tanya is napping on me it's easier to read on Kindle, I started 2001:Space Odyssey by Arthur Clarke. My Dad preloaded a bunch of books into my Kindle when he gave it to me as a gift. There is a lot of classic sci-fi. It's how I read Ringworld during last year's commute.
And then a while ago I put Oliver Sacks' An Anthropologist on Mars on hold and it came in last week for my Kindle. So three books at the same time.
I'm enjoying all three but the last Sacks book I read was better and I keep guessing some of Gaiman plots, although there are still many surprises there.
One thing about reading Sacks on Kindle. I was reading the chapter about the colorblind painter and the chapter comes with illustrations of past paintings that were in bright color vs post colorblindness paintings and other examples. However, because I'm reading on Kindle all paintings are black and white and gray, you can't see color in it, you need an actual book for that. But perhaps that he's me to understand a bit of that world view.
Thing that made me laugh so much that I was laughing until tears came out of my eyes: I know there is a word that means misheard lyrics -mondegreen - and last Sunday it made me laugh. My daughter got a new toy on Easter, a toy camera for babies that sings songs and says words. One song counts to 10, has another phrase and then says 'and let's count again'. I was in the kitchen, putting something away, with my husband sitting there eating lunch, Tanya in the high chair playing with that camera. I wasn't really listening or paying attention when I mishear that lyric and hear 'and let's kill the cat'. I can't even hear it the right way now. I just thought it was hysterical. I couldn't stop laughing and it took a while before I could even tell Bear what was so funny. Sometimes brains are funny.