2 Tishrei/ 20 September 2009
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bearshortyI started reading “World War Z: oral history of the zombie war” by Max Brooks this morning and I was not expecting how much I would like it. I couldn’t put it down. Well, partly because I knew I had to grade papers and wanted to do anything but. But it is really, really good. It is not the zombies who are fun, it is people’s response to a plague that is encroaching and terrifying. Reactions of governments and different people are very realistic. The book is written as an oral interview with a bunch of survivors and that writing choice works incredibly well. So far I read just the first part about people from all over the world processing various information about the new plague. I liked that people from different cultures sound like they are from that culture in the style of storytelling. But I just wanted to keep reading which does not often happens with books now.
Went rollerblading for 35 minutes today. The ocean was very pretty blue and sun was shining.
Most of the afternoon I spent grading papers. Paper 1 on Kingsolver and genetic engineering. Grading papers is such a brainsucking work especially in the beginning when their papers just don’t make sense. I feel like a zombie myself afterwards. At least I reached my goal of 7 papers. Now I just have to do that for three more days.
My friend N. called me today. And she has an extra season of “Farscape. Season 3” which she will give to me just because. Yeah!!! Does it mean I will eventually have to get other seasons?
I discovered today that adding feta cheese is really delicious in the regular salad Mama makes.
Watching the Emmy’s right now. NPH rocks. Great to see “Dr Horrible” on mainstream TV. Emmy is not my favorite awards show; I don’t always watch it but this year it is brilliant. Funny. Lots of jokes. Great introduction to writers of Variety shows and other writers, great introduction to directors, and great commentary for people walking to the stage. Plus Neil Patrick Harris is awe…wait for it… some. Ok, that was a lame joke. I was also reading EW liveblog for a bit to combine the media, that proved too much hassle, I don’t have attention span for that.
Today I was also learning HTML language a bit which I will need when I will talk about “House” tomorrow so as not to spoil it.
Genesis WTF moment of the day: Abram(Abraham) and Sara and their sojourn in Egypt. So Abram and Sara and their nephew Lot go into Egypt for a time. Abram is worried that if people in Egypt find out that Sara is his wife, they will kill him since she is so beautiful. So he figures he will introduce her as his sister. When that works rather well and Sara is “taken” into Pharaoh’s house, it made Abram very happy and he grew rich. God had to pretty much intervene and tell the Pharaoh that Sara was Abram’s wife. That made the Pharaoh of Egypt, of all people, very uncomfortable and he told Abram to take Sara and leave Egypt. I wonder what Sara was thinking at that time. The Bible curiously doesn’t mention it.
Went rollerblading for 35 minutes today. The ocean was very pretty blue and sun was shining.
Most of the afternoon I spent grading papers. Paper 1 on Kingsolver and genetic engineering. Grading papers is such a brainsucking work especially in the beginning when their papers just don’t make sense. I feel like a zombie myself afterwards. At least I reached my goal of 7 papers. Now I just have to do that for three more days.
My friend N. called me today. And she has an extra season of “Farscape. Season 3” which she will give to me just because. Yeah!!! Does it mean I will eventually have to get other seasons?
I discovered today that adding feta cheese is really delicious in the regular salad Mama makes.
Watching the Emmy’s right now. NPH rocks. Great to see “Dr Horrible” on mainstream TV. Emmy is not my favorite awards show; I don’t always watch it but this year it is brilliant. Funny. Lots of jokes. Great introduction to writers of Variety shows and other writers, great introduction to directors, and great commentary for people walking to the stage. Plus Neil Patrick Harris is awe…wait for it… some. Ok, that was a lame joke. I was also reading EW liveblog for a bit to combine the media, that proved too much hassle, I don’t have attention span for that.
Today I was also learning HTML language a bit which I will need when I will talk about “House” tomorrow so as not to spoil it.
Genesis WTF moment of the day: Abram(Abraham) and Sara and their sojourn in Egypt. So Abram and Sara and their nephew Lot go into Egypt for a time. Abram is worried that if people in Egypt find out that Sara is his wife, they will kill him since she is so beautiful. So he figures he will introduce her as his sister. When that works rather well and Sara is “taken” into Pharaoh’s house, it made Abram very happy and he grew rich. God had to pretty much intervene and tell the Pharaoh that Sara was Abram’s wife. That made the Pharaoh of Egypt, of all people, very uncomfortable and he told Abram to take Sara and leave Egypt. I wonder what Sara was thinking at that time. The Bible curiously doesn’t mention it.
