Friday, September 10, 2010
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bearshortyIt is a teaching day, which means my body doesn’t like to sleep that much knowing I have to get up early. I woke up without the alarm clock at 6:40. Way too early.
I read some Stephen Fry this morning while eating breakfast in a lounge near my office; I finally got to the part where he falls in love for the first time with a boy at his school and I love his description of bowled over nature of it.
This was a Peer Review Day – the easiest day to teach. I printed out the Peer Review sheet on Tuesday. All I had to do today was collect one copy of their drafts and look over them and give some comments to the students while they read other student’s papers. Many don’t know why topic sentences matter. They like to start their paragraphs with a quote. I already got one guy who thinks he knows better and tries to argue with me when I point out that his thesis is unclear. Seriously, dude, if you want an “A” do listen to your teacher.
I got grilled chicken for lunch and finished the National Geographic article about King Tut’s family. Through DNA analysis, they discovered that his parents were full siblings. With CT scan, it was also apparent than Tut had a club foot and walking was very painful. He is always show with a walking stick – it is not ceremonial. I discovered that I really like archeological articles in this magazine. I think school is the perfect time to read this magazine too.
SyFy channel will show the rest of Season 1 of “Caprica” this year. They will start on Oct 5 at 10pm. Yay. I hope there will be a second season. This is my second favorite current TV show after “True Blood.” “House” is third, “Brothers and Sisters” is forth, followed by “Community” and “Modern Family” and “Dexter.”
Neil Gaiman is doing an interview at the New Yorker Festival in October and the tickets went on sale today. After some thinking about it and staring at the $30 price tag for a while and talking to Papa, I decided to go for it. I do enjoy seeing authors I like to read in person. One of my favorite outings remains J.K. Rowling, Stephen King and John Irving at Radio City Music hall many years ago. So I bought one ticket. Papa would have went with me but this is not Mama’s cup of tea, and she doesn’t like to be left by herself.
Highlander “The Ransom of Richard Redstone” Duncan’s 70s hair is precious. This episode is a farce – not the best farce but there were amusing moments. Mac finding a painting of himself, for example. At least Mac had lots of fun acting. And he got to do a dramatic death scene. And Richie humoring him at the end was really understated and funny. This is not the best episode, especially coming after the last two, but after all the drama, it is nice to see some comedy.
“Duende” I liked the episode. I really liked the dancing and it was great for them to use Adrian Paul’s actual dancing talent. You could see how hard it was for Duncan to walk away in the 1850s. It was an interesting sword fighting style too. I like his skewering himself to get close. And that fight went on for a while, it looked tough. Again, this can never be as awesome as the horsemen episodes, so the drop in quality is there a bit, but then it is hard to be perfection every time.
“Bit of Fry and Laurie” S1E4. Heavy metal recitation –hee. And I really liked the poem sketch in the beginning.
I read some Stephen Fry this morning while eating breakfast in a lounge near my office; I finally got to the part where he falls in love for the first time with a boy at his school and I love his description of bowled over nature of it.
This was a Peer Review Day – the easiest day to teach. I printed out the Peer Review sheet on Tuesday. All I had to do today was collect one copy of their drafts and look over them and give some comments to the students while they read other student’s papers. Many don’t know why topic sentences matter. They like to start their paragraphs with a quote. I already got one guy who thinks he knows better and tries to argue with me when I point out that his thesis is unclear. Seriously, dude, if you want an “A” do listen to your teacher.
I got grilled chicken for lunch and finished the National Geographic article about King Tut’s family. Through DNA analysis, they discovered that his parents were full siblings. With CT scan, it was also apparent than Tut had a club foot and walking was very painful. He is always show with a walking stick – it is not ceremonial. I discovered that I really like archeological articles in this magazine. I think school is the perfect time to read this magazine too.
SyFy channel will show the rest of Season 1 of “Caprica” this year. They will start on Oct 5 at 10pm. Yay. I hope there will be a second season. This is my second favorite current TV show after “True Blood.” “House” is third, “Brothers and Sisters” is forth, followed by “Community” and “Modern Family” and “Dexter.”
Neil Gaiman is doing an interview at the New Yorker Festival in October and the tickets went on sale today. After some thinking about it and staring at the $30 price tag for a while and talking to Papa, I decided to go for it. I do enjoy seeing authors I like to read in person. One of my favorite outings remains J.K. Rowling, Stephen King and John Irving at Radio City Music hall many years ago. So I bought one ticket. Papa would have went with me but this is not Mama’s cup of tea, and she doesn’t like to be left by herself.
Highlander “The Ransom of Richard Redstone” Duncan’s 70s hair is precious. This episode is a farce – not the best farce but there were amusing moments. Mac finding a painting of himself, for example. At least Mac had lots of fun acting. And he got to do a dramatic death scene. And Richie humoring him at the end was really understated and funny. This is not the best episode, especially coming after the last two, but after all the drama, it is nice to see some comedy.
“Duende” I liked the episode. I really liked the dancing and it was great for them to use Adrian Paul’s actual dancing talent. You could see how hard it was for Duncan to walk away in the 1850s. It was an interesting sword fighting style too. I like his skewering himself to get close. And that fight went on for a while, it looked tough. Again, this can never be as awesome as the horsemen episodes, so the drop in quality is there a bit, but then it is hard to be perfection every time.
“Bit of Fry and Laurie” S1E4. Heavy metal recitation –hee. And I really liked the poem sketch in the beginning.