1 Nisan/16 March, 2010
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bearshorty Global Giving had a promotion today, right in time for my donation of the month. I didn’t even realize it was first of Nisan until I looked at my little calendar. Timely of Global Giving.
Seven or six years ago I wrote a paper for a graduate seminar on Eileen Power (1889-1940), an prominent medieval economic and social historian who was a major pioneer in women’s history. Maxine Berg wrote a wonderful biography about her called A Woman in History , which I highly recommend. It was my very favorite paper I wrote in all of graduate school; it was a historiographical paper based on Power’s work and a bit about her life too. I realized this morning, as I’m finally tackling writing the women’s history historiography section in one of my chapters, that I can actually use a page of the paper. So I had a lot of fun re-reading the Power paper and being surprised at how well it stands up and that I wrote it. Well, I know I wrote it because it is my prose, but the quality is much higher than I remember.
I finally finished “Ender’s Game” today. Overall, I liked it but I didn’t love it and I can’t point to why on both. My favorite parts about it were psychological methods of training a boy into a commander and Peter and Valentine’s use of the internet to influence the world (very prescient of the author). The battles and games after a while got a bit tedious. The last chapter felt completely out of place – not a surprise, since the author rewrote it later to match the sequels he has written. After looking on Wikipedia about the content of the sequels, I have no desire to read any of them since the plot sounds a bit silly and far-fetched. I think I would have liked the book much more without the second half of the last chapter and “Speaker of the Dead” part.
As we went to post office today to get money orders for the stupid transit visa, we saw so many fallen trees from the weekend storm. Huge large trees, especially large fir trees, just fell down on yards, wires and occasionally houses. The storm really caused some damage.
Seven or six years ago I wrote a paper for a graduate seminar on Eileen Power (1889-1940), an prominent medieval economic and social historian who was a major pioneer in women’s history. Maxine Berg wrote a wonderful biography about her called A Woman in History , which I highly recommend. It was my very favorite paper I wrote in all of graduate school; it was a historiographical paper based on Power’s work and a bit about her life too. I realized this morning, as I’m finally tackling writing the women’s history historiography section in one of my chapters, that I can actually use a page of the paper. So I had a lot of fun re-reading the Power paper and being surprised at how well it stands up and that I wrote it. Well, I know I wrote it because it is my prose, but the quality is much higher than I remember.
I finally finished “Ender’s Game” today. Overall, I liked it but I didn’t love it and I can’t point to why on both. My favorite parts about it were psychological methods of training a boy into a commander and Peter and Valentine’s use of the internet to influence the world (very prescient of the author). The battles and games after a while got a bit tedious. The last chapter felt completely out of place – not a surprise, since the author rewrote it later to match the sequels he has written. After looking on Wikipedia about the content of the sequels, I have no desire to read any of them since the plot sounds a bit silly and far-fetched. I think I would have liked the book much more without the second half of the last chapter and “Speaker of the Dead” part.
As we went to post office today to get money orders for the stupid transit visa, we saw so many fallen trees from the weekend storm. Huge large trees, especially large fir trees, just fell down on yards, wires and occasionally houses. The storm really caused some damage.
