Bearshorty's musings

Happy Birthday, Yeva!

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 S5 E10-12 )