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Bear came over this afternoon and we finally drove over to the large nature park that is maybe at most fifteen minutes away. I wanted to go there for a while. We went hiking for about two hours in nice October weather. I think October is one of my favorite months. I just love the leaves in all colors and the weather not being too cold.

Then we picked up some food at the Asian place – he got Korean again and I got Thai – drunken noodles with beef. And we rented a movie from Red Box. Now that Netflix is only online for me, I’m trying to see how much I would actually spend to rent movies. I suspect, not that much.

We got “The Priest” since we wanted a movie we wouldn’t have to take seriously. And really that movie is just such a B movie we could make fun of and snark (one of my favorite things). The plot was paint by numbers where we not only could guess all ‘surprise’ plot twists in advance but also quote the dialogue ahead of time. But it was entertaining in its silly way so it was what we expected, really.
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This morning I went to campus to pick up the New Humanities book for my writing classes and then I spend pretty much all day working on the syllabus. I read three articles and skimmed some others, picked my sequences and wrote up a schedule and the class requirements and it just took me five hours to put everything together. I’m only teaching one article I assigned before, the rest will be new. I’m set for the writing class. I even got the tech guys to put it on the internet for me on the class site. (For some reason the website does not like my version of Word, I can put up anything on it but the syllabus.)

The way this writing class works is the students read six articles over the course of the semester and write a close reading assignment, five papers (5 pages each), and a midterm and a final exam. Most of the papers compare two articles (except the first one, that’s just one reading). And the articles have to link to each other in two sequences of three readings each to teach students how to develop arguments better by building on ideas. In the past, I did sequences on science and environment, on religion, on identity and self, on gender etc. This time my semester will be about culture, first about moments of cultural change and how they affect us and what prompts them and then about cultural constructions of identity, especially ethnic and religious identity. I have a few articles that really want to say that social context is everything.

ExpandThese will be my six readings: )


I really liked Jon Stewart’s speech from Monday’s episode offering hope at this time.

This movie, called “Priest” looks like great horror cheese : A Warrior priest (Paul Bettany) fighting vampires in a dystopia world and his own order too. Yes that is the plot, it looks like cheesy fun. And in 3D! Hee. I will so rent this on DVD next year.

So I was watching Doctor Who again with cross stitching and as I was watching “Army of Ghosts” episode of end of Season 2 that takes place in Torchwood 1 I kept thinking how Ianto was there at the time which made me want to see “Torchwood.” So I put on ‘Children of Earth’ on Netflix Instant and I watched the first episode. It is even creepier than I remember. That was definitely their best season but it is really hard to watch. I'm looking forward to the new season this summer.

Exercise: 30 min walk
Cross-stitch: color of the day is tan for little bear’s head

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