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20079. arkymalarky - 9/1/2006 10:43:47 PM WOW!! What a wonderful post! I got to revisit a great time all over again!
And congrats on school! Sounds like things are rolling right along. I had no idea you'd be two weeks into it already!
And yep, it's Ronnie. I'm looking forward to a repeat of a fantastic gathering next year! 20080. Ms. No - 9/1/2006 11:35:56 PM There were four lower division classes needed for my English specialization so I figured I'd take them at the community college for cheap rather than at the University. Also, I couldn't have gotten into the Uni in time for this semester --- it's actually time to apply for next semester there already.
Only two of the classes I need are offered each semester though so I'm easing back in with a light load which is just as well. I'm taking American Lit - Discovery to the Civil War and a World Lit - Ancient to Early Modern.
I thought the AmLit was going to be a struggle since the bulk of it is spent reading Puritain works, but the way in which the professor is approaching it all is very engaging so I'm having a great time even when we do have to read things like "A Model of Christian Charity". We had a great time with the poems of Anne Bradstreet.
World Lit so far has been Gilgamesh, some passages from the Old Testament and now The Odyssey. I've read a lot of the material we'll be covering in this class --- including the Bahgavad Gita and some of the Hindu Vedas. Oedipus Rex, The Inferno, The Canterbury Tales and then we finish up with Hamlet. We'll also be reading some Japanese and Chinese writings and an epic poem out of Africa and a Navaho creation story.
At some point we have to instruct the class with a partner and one of my classmates and I are really angling to do The Inferno. The professor wouldn't let us sign up yet, though so we'll have to wrestle with the rest of the class over what material gets parcelled out to whom next Wednesday. 20081. arkymalarky - 9/2/2006 1:14:42 AM Hey, that sounds great, especially the World Lit. Sounds like you have a good plan. I hope you two get to do what you want in the class. We're doing something similar in my American Novel class--selecting our 8th novel from a list, first come first served. I'm never early and I'm afraid I'll get stuck with something I don't like. I've read four of the other seven novels we're reading, but not the one we're starting with--Blithedale Romance. 20082. Ulgine Barrows - 9/2/2006 2:50:32 AM [i]19612. arkymalarky - 6/12/2006 2:41:58 PM
Ulgine, my assessment of the difference between dogs and cats: cats play with their prey before they kill it, and dogs play with it after--weeks after, if you let them.
My parents went out on their driveway one day to find that all that was left of one of their cat's bird victims was a pair of wings lying on the concrete.[/i]
Yeah, cats like to kill it a little bit, then kill it a little bit more. And then see if they can kill it til it doesn't move. 20083. judithathome - 9/2/2006 4:08:29 AM MsNo, I wholeheartedly agree with Arky...fabulous post!
The purse outlet is called B Jaxx.
And Todd...how could I ever forget Todd! ;-) 20084. Ulgine Barrows - 9/2/2006 5:06:24 AM Todd? Do tell. 20085. Ulgine Barrows - 9/2/2006 5:17:45 AM 19885 or maybe 19858
Is it too much to demand
I want a full house and a rock and roll band
Pens that won't run out of ink
And cool quiet and time to think
Shouldn't I have this
Passionate Kisses, MC Carpenter
And that website makes me sad I posted (or tried to post) her lyrics here. 20086. Ms. No - 9/2/2006 7:24:30 AM Ah, Todd, he was a charmer. That's the kind of boy I'd have gotten into trouble with in highschool...or college...or hell, probably even five years ago. ;-> 20087. Ulgine Barrows - 9/2/2006 7:50:24 AM And perhaps today?
Todd, Tom, Toby..... 20088. Ulgine Barrows - 9/2/2006 7:55:31 AM 19612. arkymalarky - 6/12/2006 2:41:58 PM
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My parents went out on their driveway one day to find that all that was left of one of their cat's bird victims was a pair of wings lying on the concrete.
Yeah, I had to kick bird parts around to mow the lawn today.
Mostly wings: they must not be so tasty. 20089. alistairConnor - 9/2/2006 12:28:53 PM well I'm not sorry I asked!
Looks like you've had one of those life-defining flashpoints... I think millions of us are likely to find ourselves in that position over the next few years : cast off from our established positions as the economy moves (or crumbles) under our feet. You've seized on it as an opportunity, where others would have been crushed by it... I think that this is very smart re-positioning, considering the economic storms ahead. "Get thee to the non-discretionary side of the economy!" is the general advice for anyone... let's hope the education system will be maintained.
So what sort of teaching are you aiming for? 20090. uzmakk - 9/2/2006 12:30:31 PM I commented long ago that the Western Moties seemed to be a more gregarious lot than their Eastern brethren. The evidence accumulates.
20091. alistairConnor - 9/2/2006 12:37:22 PM The only American moties I have met are New Yawkers. But that's just a matter of opportunity. 20092. wonkers2 - 9/2/2006 2:27:35 PM Anybody know where Magoseph is lately? 20093. arkymalarky - 9/2/2006 3:50:30 PM Judith posted that Mags wanted us to know she'd be gone for a few days, but didn't say why or for how long. 20094. wonkers2 - 9/2/2006 3:53:26 PM Tnks! 20095. arkymalarky - 9/2/2006 4:01:46 PM Ol' Todd. I'd about forgotten Todd before he showed up. He's something else. I didn't know what to make of him back when, and I still don't. He's always been a charmer, but if he dropped by much I'd have to start keeping better count of my silverware. 20096. judithathome - 9/2/2006 4:18:18 PM Just talked to Mags and she and Flexy are going to her older son's house to meet up with her younger son and his fiance who are visiting from Texas. Big doin's for the Labor Day weekend in the Oseph clan!
She said to say hello to everyone and that she will be back soon. I want to know all about her future daughter-in-law, myself. 20097. Ms. No - 9/2/2006 8:57:00 PM Alisdair,
I plan to teach highschool English and eventually History. Truly, for me to have gotten a stronger message from whatever Powers That Be I'd have had to wake up with a tattoo on my ass.
Perhaps I just wasn't ready before this, but it's not as if the thought of teaching hadn't ever occurred to me before. I'm not sure why it didn't strike me before, but this time it was really an "Oh Duh" moment. I wasn't agonizing over what career I wanted, I was panicking a little bit over the fact that I was going to have to apply for jobs in LA that I didn't really want in order to maintain the salary and life I'd become accustomed to. This dropped on me like a safe from a third story window.
What's amazing is how incredibly dense I've had to be in order to NOT look at teaching as a career choice. My mother and stepfather both teach. My uncle and his wife, two of my three first cousins and three of their spouses. Four of their children and two more who are planning it. Three of my closest college girlfriends.
Also, there I was heading to Arkansas to be surrounded by yet more educators --- and pretty much every time I've turned around since then I've run into more people to support and encourage my choice. The handyman who came to unstick the windows in my new place has a Masters in Education and taught for years before retiring to his current trade. We sat and chatted for nearly an hour.
When I mentioned wanting to perhaps spend a year or two teaching on one of the Reservations a girlfriend of mine piped up that her mother had worked for the BIF for thirty years and could tell me anything I wanted to know about it.
Seriously, I ought to be terrified at this point --- not of going back to school, but of not being gainfully employed for the next three years while I go back to school, but I just can't be. I won't say that I'm not worried at all and there will be adjustments to be made, but I feel like I've got laser focus for the first time in my life. I've been meandering all this time and now I've got a destination.
Okay, I'm starting to sound like some revivalist convert so I'll just quit now, but suffice to say I'm very, very excited. 20098. Ms. No - 9/2/2006 8:58:02 PM Arky,
I'd count it twice.....and then I'd check my underwear drawer, just in case.
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