Thursday, September 9, 2010
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I finished all the blog entries for the previous year today. This year I will try to write on the day I mean to post and not just make notes and come back to the full entry later. I looked at my entries from the beginning of last year, and I wrote a lot more and much better too. I changed the blog’s name to something simple and not that original (maybe I’ll think of something better later) and the layout as well (from pink to purple) to usher in a new year.
That fire that raged yesterday in our vicinity was back again. My grandfather could see it from his window in Brooklyn and he got all concerned. We kept hearing fire trucks all afternoon. But as long as we don’t see black smoke near us, we just take it easy.
I took a walk to the library today to pick up the books on hold for me. There is a new Dresden Files story told from Marcone’s point of view called “Even Hand” that finally came in. Also I got the original “Sex and the City” novel. I got curious about it a few month ago. But I want to finish Stephen Fry autobiography first.
I also stopped by Stop n Shop and got oreo cookies for my class next week. I teach them paragraphs with the cookies – the black parts represent their own ideas like a topic sentence and point to paragraph, and the white parts are quotes or evidence.
My student who I want to transfer to a class that has more reading help sent me a very grammatically and stylistically unsound email not really wanting to transfer. She claims being overwhelmed by the beginning of college and therefore composing a bad writing sample. Maybe she should check the writing of the email first before tackling actual papers. I think I will have to deal with her this semester because she thinks she can do better. It is her choice. We are not trying to trick her here or punish her, but she doesn’t get it.
First of the month = Global Giving . It will be harder to keep track of first of the month now that I won’t use the Jewish calendar dating system in my blog entries but I’ll try to consult my little Jewish calendar often enough.
Highlander “The Valkyrie” Methos laughing at Mac’ ‘moral dilemma” is amusing in itself. I like the episodes that really get into the shades of gray. This was a good one.
“Comes a Horseman” “Revelation 6:8” I’ve seen these episodes before when I was in the middle of the first two seasons and wanted some awesomeness. And I heart these episodes. They are my favorite and I don’t think much can top it. They are just intense and brilliant. So having to watch them again in context is certainly not a hardship. I wanted to save them for tomorrow but I really don’t want to wait. I love the set up of the episode – it looks like it will be a regular episode of Mac meeting an old enemy and then it becomes all about Methos with Mac all confused and feeling betrayed and really a side player. I like Cassandra more as I watched the episode the second time. It occurs to me that there was another reason for ‘The Messenger” episode. Kronos really tracked down the rumors of the other Methos. Methos just happened to be in the same city and went on a tv show. Kronos is really a good villain, very believable as a super bad guy. He just takes joy in his work.
Oh, the jimmy break up scene. I think it is my favorite scene in all of ‘Highlander’. Mac is about the cry. Methos, too, and he pushes on purpose. The music in these episodes works really well (the rest of Season 5 has horrible music). All the scenes are pretty intense and everything just comes together. Kronos and Methos scenes are excellent in intensity. It is so not up to Mac to judge but he can’t process it really. We see that in “Revelations” that he want to believe Methos and still trusts him and Methos relies on the fact that some friendship remains. Mac is mostly upset that Methos lied to him than anything else. I do like how at the end of the first episode Methos, in a very cool and collected way, sets up the fires and gets Cassandra out of the way. Silas giving Methos the big hug was sweet. They really sell the idea that these men were family to each other. The double quickening was not very subtle. Something I just noticed – Joe is using a computer database – so Watchers did make another database, despite that whole Kalas disaster. They took Methos/Salazar idea and ran with it, after berating Methos for it at the time. Overall, there episodes 99 and 100 and they are really epic.
I finished all the blog entries for the previous year today. This year I will try to write on the day I mean to post and not just make notes and come back to the full entry later. I looked at my entries from the beginning of last year, and I wrote a lot more and much better too. I changed the blog’s name to something simple and not that original (maybe I’ll think of something better later) and the layout as well (from pink to purple) to usher in a new year.
That fire that raged yesterday in our vicinity was back again. My grandfather could see it from his window in Brooklyn and he got all concerned. We kept hearing fire trucks all afternoon. But as long as we don’t see black smoke near us, we just take it easy.
I took a walk to the library today to pick up the books on hold for me. There is a new Dresden Files story told from Marcone’s point of view called “Even Hand” that finally came in. Also I got the original “Sex and the City” novel. I got curious about it a few month ago. But I want to finish Stephen Fry autobiography first.
I also stopped by Stop n Shop and got oreo cookies for my class next week. I teach them paragraphs with the cookies – the black parts represent their own ideas like a topic sentence and point to paragraph, and the white parts are quotes or evidence.
My student who I want to transfer to a class that has more reading help sent me a very grammatically and stylistically unsound email not really wanting to transfer. She claims being overwhelmed by the beginning of college and therefore composing a bad writing sample. Maybe she should check the writing of the email first before tackling actual papers. I think I will have to deal with her this semester because she thinks she can do better. It is her choice. We are not trying to trick her here or punish her, but she doesn’t get it.
First of the month = Global Giving . It will be harder to keep track of first of the month now that I won’t use the Jewish calendar dating system in my blog entries but I’ll try to consult my little Jewish calendar often enough.
Highlander “The Valkyrie” Methos laughing at Mac’ ‘moral dilemma” is amusing in itself. I like the episodes that really get into the shades of gray. This was a good one.
“Comes a Horseman” “Revelation 6:8” I’ve seen these episodes before when I was in the middle of the first two seasons and wanted some awesomeness. And I heart these episodes. They are my favorite and I don’t think much can top it. They are just intense and brilliant. So having to watch them again in context is certainly not a hardship. I wanted to save them for tomorrow but I really don’t want to wait. I love the set up of the episode – it looks like it will be a regular episode of Mac meeting an old enemy and then it becomes all about Methos with Mac all confused and feeling betrayed and really a side player. I like Cassandra more as I watched the episode the second time. It occurs to me that there was another reason for ‘The Messenger” episode. Kronos really tracked down the rumors of the other Methos. Methos just happened to be in the same city and went on a tv show. Kronos is really a good villain, very believable as a super bad guy. He just takes joy in his work.
Oh, the jimmy break up scene. I think it is my favorite scene in all of ‘Highlander’. Mac is about the cry. Methos, too, and he pushes on purpose. The music in these episodes works really well (the rest of Season 5 has horrible music). All the scenes are pretty intense and everything just comes together. Kronos and Methos scenes are excellent in intensity. It is so not up to Mac to judge but he can’t process it really. We see that in “Revelations” that he want to believe Methos and still trusts him and Methos relies on the fact that some friendship remains. Mac is mostly upset that Methos lied to him than anything else. I do like how at the end of the first episode Methos, in a very cool and collected way, sets up the fires and gets Cassandra out of the way. Silas giving Methos the big hug was sweet. They really sell the idea that these men were family to each other. The double quickening was not very subtle. Something I just noticed – Joe is using a computer database – so Watchers did make another database, despite that whole Kalas disaster. They took Methos/Salazar idea and ran with it, after berating Methos for it at the time. Overall, there episodes 99 and 100 and they are really epic.
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Date: 2010-09-10 02:48 am (UTC):/ student.
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Date: 2010-09-10 03:45 am (UTC)The student actually just sent me another email and she is signing up for the comp with reading. I was very surprised. I think after both me and the director explained that this really wasn't a punishment and that she might as well get credit instead of just tutoring, just realized she should. I don't know. I'm just very glad she did as one of my classes already has 18 students.