24 Tishrei/12 October, 2009
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bearshortyI scheduled a meeting with Advisor next Thursday (in ten days), who is now a full Professor and a department chair. Which is really cool. By next week I want to finish my conference paper to give to him to read. And it general to get my shit together more to talk about with him. Priority for the week is the conference paper. I’ll need to grade in less brainy times and spend productive time on my actual schoolwork.
This morning people did not start coming to the office in the writing program until 9:30 which was a bit weird. I needed a second pair of eyes on my midterm question and I ended up rephrasing it close to the actual class. Instead of asking them where the limit should be I asked how should we reconcile the right of individual choice with the fear of some new medical technology. Basically what they talked in discussion but phrased as an adult would phrase it. I did have to explain what ‘reconcile’ means in both classes which makes me sad for humanity.
I made one student come to my office hours today since her thesis did not equal her paragraph ideas. The fun part was when I looked at the outline she made before the paper was due and she had good paragraph ideas (which were not her topic sentences) and a thesis that didn’t match them. It is like she knew it didn’t work but didn’t care enough to fix it. I hope she gets it now after I explained it to her in person.
I was also chatting with another instructor in the computer room today who turned out to be a Ukrainian girl three days younger than me who came to America as a teenagers and whose partner is also an American Catholic guy. It was amusing to discover.
Free cupcake with nice cream frosting today! Go ResLife.
House S6E5. It was a pretty ordinary episode. A rich patient thinks it is karma his kid is sick. I thought they might actually kill the kid but, of course, they didn’t. It is nice to see Chase and weird for Cameron to call him “Robert.” And it was a good episode, it didn’t suck it just had very little outstanding things in it. I’m glad House continues not to be on Vicodin and trying to be better. Couldn’t care less about Thirteen and that whole convoluted drama. I hope they will have Taub back soon. And I’m too sleepy to think of anything complex to say. That happens on Mondays when I get up at 6:30.
I'm not feeling Dexter this season. I just saw two episodes so far. Maybe it will pick up. Maybe I should watch it when I'm awake more.
Leviticus WTF moment of the day: And the fun Leviticus begins. Chapters 11 to 15 is where we get into clean and unclean food rules, what makes a person unclean including all kinds of graphic discharges, purification after childbirth, menstrual period and regulations about skin diseases – basically the difference between pure and impure and how to be pure again. There are even regulations about mildew. Does God have OCD that he needs people to be ‘clean’? Most of the food and skin uncleanness make sense even today but some is really silly. I didn’t really know that I can’t eat rabbit. Rabbit gets as much emphasis as pig. No rabbit stew for me! Can’t eat a bat, either. But locust and grasshopper are good. There is also an aversion to touching animal carcasses. Touching a dead cat or a dead gecko (yes, gecko is mentioned in the Bible) renders one unclean. The rule about carcasses actually makes sense, you must not eat or drink anything that touches the carcass and must wash your clothes. It probably prevented diseases. If a woman gives birth to a daughter she is unclean for two weeks and must wait sixty-six days more to be purified, not just seven plus thirty-three days required for a son. Because baby boy has a penis he makes a woman less polluted from childbirth? Is that the reasoning? The uncleanness in childbirth basically results from all the blood; God is squeamish. Priests also examine people’s skin a lot for various infections and rashes; they isolate potential cases and are pretty strict. This regulation makes sense too just as burning any clothing with mildew on it and taking down any house with a mildew that doesn’t go away or washing stuff if a guy with stuff oozing form him touches you.
This morning people did not start coming to the office in the writing program until 9:30 which was a bit weird. I needed a second pair of eyes on my midterm question and I ended up rephrasing it close to the actual class. Instead of asking them where the limit should be I asked how should we reconcile the right of individual choice with the fear of some new medical technology. Basically what they talked in discussion but phrased as an adult would phrase it. I did have to explain what ‘reconcile’ means in both classes which makes me sad for humanity.
I made one student come to my office hours today since her thesis did not equal her paragraph ideas. The fun part was when I looked at the outline she made before the paper was due and she had good paragraph ideas (which were not her topic sentences) and a thesis that didn’t match them. It is like she knew it didn’t work but didn’t care enough to fix it. I hope she gets it now after I explained it to her in person.
I was also chatting with another instructor in the computer room today who turned out to be a Ukrainian girl three days younger than me who came to America as a teenagers and whose partner is also an American Catholic guy. It was amusing to discover.
Free cupcake with nice cream frosting today! Go ResLife.
House S6E5. It was a pretty ordinary episode. A rich patient thinks it is karma his kid is sick. I thought they might actually kill the kid but, of course, they didn’t. It is nice to see Chase and weird for Cameron to call him “Robert.” And it was a good episode, it didn’t suck it just had very little outstanding things in it. I’m glad House continues not to be on Vicodin and trying to be better. Couldn’t care less about Thirteen and that whole convoluted drama. I hope they will have Taub back soon. And I’m too sleepy to think of anything complex to say. That happens on Mondays when I get up at 6:30.
I'm not feeling Dexter this season. I just saw two episodes so far. Maybe it will pick up. Maybe I should watch it when I'm awake more.
Leviticus WTF moment of the day: And the fun Leviticus begins. Chapters 11 to 15 is where we get into clean and unclean food rules, what makes a person unclean including all kinds of graphic discharges, purification after childbirth, menstrual period and regulations about skin diseases – basically the difference between pure and impure and how to be pure again. There are even regulations about mildew. Does God have OCD that he needs people to be ‘clean’? Most of the food and skin uncleanness make sense even today but some is really silly. I didn’t really know that I can’t eat rabbit. Rabbit gets as much emphasis as pig. No rabbit stew for me! Can’t eat a bat, either. But locust and grasshopper are good. There is also an aversion to touching animal carcasses. Touching a dead cat or a dead gecko (yes, gecko is mentioned in the Bible) renders one unclean. The rule about carcasses actually makes sense, you must not eat or drink anything that touches the carcass and must wash your clothes. It probably prevented diseases. If a woman gives birth to a daughter she is unclean for two weeks and must wait sixty-six days more to be purified, not just seven plus thirty-three days required for a son. Because baby boy has a penis he makes a woman less polluted from childbirth? Is that the reasoning? The uncleanness in childbirth basically results from all the blood; God is squeamish. Priests also examine people’s skin a lot for various infections and rashes; they isolate potential cases and are pretty strict. This regulation makes sense too just as burning any clothing with mildew on it and taking down any house with a mildew that doesn’t go away or washing stuff if a guy with stuff oozing form him touches you.
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Date: 2009-10-13 06:17 am (UTC)Advisor made full prof? Really? Huh.
I'm meeting with Awesome Advisor on Friday. Blergh. But good for me.