marigolds
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« Reply #2580 on: November 17, 2009, 04:39:34 PM » |
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Yay Sikora! I'm so glad you're in a secure place right now!
My inhale: I'm eating Hershey bars and rolling around on the floor giggling with Sprout.
It's the little things, you know?
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"You and your mom are hillbillies. This is a house of learned doctors."
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« Reply #2581 on: November 17, 2009, 05:34:25 PM » |
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Congratulations sikora! Enjoy your new job and the feeling that you can do things that you have been putting off. This is indeed a good feeling.
I am playing on the forum while sitting on my bed with my two sleeping basset hounds.
Good times. good times.
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wild_rose
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The thrill of modern postism!
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« Reply #2582 on: November 18, 2009, 05:17:02 PM » |
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After struggling with writer's block, I had a breakthrough and made significant headway on my grant proposal this afternoon.
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"[M]y toast just landed jelly side up so I think that bodes well for averting world-ending disasters. I have faith in bread although the toasted aspect may mean you're going to have withstand some heat for a brief time and some aloe jelly will come in handy." --Notaprof, the Great Seer
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sikora
Looking for something, but forgot what it was.
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Arrggh! WTF??
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« Reply #2583 on: November 18, 2009, 05:39:35 PM » |
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After struggling with writer's block, I had a breakthrough and made significant headway on my grant proposal this afternoon.
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Stop plate tectonics!
and while we're at it ...
Free kittens!
and
Free the bound morpheme!
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wild_rose
Uncharacteristically optimistic
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The thrill of modern postism!
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« Reply #2584 on: November 18, 2009, 05:45:07 PM » |
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After struggling with writer's block, I had a breakthrough and made significant headway on my grant proposal this afternoon.
Yes! I'm also pleased to see the good things that are coming your way as well, sikora! |
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"[M]y toast just landed jelly side up so I think that bodes well for averting world-ending disasters. I have faith in bread although the toasted aspect may mean you're going to have withstand some heat for a brief time and some aloe jelly will come in handy." --Notaprof, the Great Seer
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llanfair
Village idiot and Very
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Whither Canada?
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« Reply #2585 on: November 18, 2009, 06:04:54 PM » |
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Inhales worthy of the name, Sikora and Wild Rose!
My inhale: I set myself to accomplish a massive amount of work today. With the help of the ever-reliable Tim Horton, I completed a stack of grading, a PowerPoint for tomorrow's lecture, and got all the laundry done before suppertime!
<now settling down to rest on my laurels>
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Because, you know, that stuff on the syllabus is like, in writing, and there are so many ways you can, like, read that, but when the guys who sit by you in class, like, you know, must know what's really going on, right? -- AmLitHist, channelling student
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malcha
Creepy Lit Critter, Undead Language Lover,
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« Reply #2586 on: November 18, 2009, 06:06:03 PM » |
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What kind of donut did you have? Inquiring minds want to know.
(Congrats, sikora and WR.)
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« Reply #2587 on: November 18, 2009, 06:13:26 PM » |
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What kind of donut did you have? Inquiring minds want to know.
(Congrats, sikora and WR.)
seconding congrats and curiosity about donuts. I'm a Boston creme fan myself but haven't had one in several years (I have another sugar-fat sweets in my diet). So, my inhale is that I'm moving to a cabin in the woods. I hate moving but am looking forward to the change. There's no fireplace, but I'm thinking we can have a fire pit in the backyard--and oh, hey, a backyard!! I haven't had a yard in decades! |
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I have no tolerance for swinish behavior, except from actual swine.
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llanfair
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Whither Canada?
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« Reply #2588 on: November 18, 2009, 06:15:55 PM » |
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What kind of donut did you have? Inquiring minds want to know.
No donut. Just Tim's coffee, and lots of it. The latest installment is cooling at my right hand even as I type. I did have a Vanilla Dip one last night, though; they've already gone to their Christmas sprinkles (red and green). Wow, HipGeek - that sounds wonderful! |
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Because, you know, that stuff on the syllabus is like, in writing, and there are so many ways you can, like, read that, but when the guys who sit by you in class, like, you know, must know what's really going on, right? -- AmLitHist, channelling student
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melba_frilkins
Doing laundry.
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« Reply #2589 on: November 18, 2009, 07:30:56 PM » |
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My inhale: Went to a committee meeting, for which I take minutes. I came back to my office and IMMEDIATELY typed up the minutes. No procrastinating, no having to find my notes later. Woohoo!
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Nothing to see here. Move along, folks.
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« Reply #2590 on: November 19, 2009, 10:24:20 PM » |
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Today, I had one of the greatest undergrad classroom moments in the history of the universe. Everything just clicked. I was trying to help my undergrad students (who are reading Discipline and Punish) understand what Foucault meant by "discourse" and "knowledge" and "discipline" and "hegemony" and "power" and all that stuff.
One potentially illustrative example that came to me, unbidden, was the LOLcat "discourse" on Icanhascheezburger. My students ate it up. It clicked with them. For the rest of the class, they were rapt. And other definitions and examples just kept coming to me, and to them. By the time class was over, they'd performed a Foucaultian analysis and archaeology of LOLcat knowledge. My students left class feeling much better about their grasp of Foucault. They left class feeling smarter. They knew they'd "gotten it."
So I am thinking of starting a thread called Classroom Victories. I'd like to hear about the little things forumites do in the classroom that were planned well and worked well, or that accidentally worked, or were just fun.
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Systeme_D is right. <rah rah RESEARCH!> |
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« Reply #2591 on: November 19, 2009, 10:27:43 PM » |
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That's terrific, Systeme! Foucault is tough stuff for undergraduates.
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galactic_hedgehog
Procrastinating, Python-quoting, Blue Blazer-drinking, chocolate-chip cookie-eating, Pastafarian, Not So
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« Reply #2592 on: November 19, 2009, 10:27:53 PM » |
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So I am thinking of starting a thread called Classroom Victories. I'd like to hear about the little things forumites do in the classroom that were planned well and worked well, or that accidentally worked, or were just fun.
That would be cool. I'd double-post my post about the impromptu discussion about Darwin, over in the "Favorite Conversations" thread. On Edit: That's terrific, Systeme! Foucault is tough stuff for undergraduates.
I dunno. Sometimes they get it, sometimes they don't. The pendulum swings back-and-forth. |
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« Reply #2593 on: November 19, 2009, 10:33:54 PM » |
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So I am thinking of starting a thread called Classroom Victories. I'd like to hear about the little things forumites do in the classroom that were planned well and worked well, or that accidentally worked, or were just fun.
That would be cool. I'd double-post my post about the impromptu discussion about Darwin, over in the "Favorite Conversations" thread. On Edit: That's terrific, Systeme! Foucault is tough stuff for undergraduates.
I dunno. Sometimes they get it, sometimes they don't. The pendulum swings back-and-forth. Ha! Thanks for the encouragement. I'll start the thread, then! |
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Systeme_D is right. <rah rah RESEARCH!> |
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bud04
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« Reply #2594 on: November 19, 2009, 10:37:46 PM » |
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Fabulous systeme_d! There is nothing better than when the students have what I call a "light bulb" moment. You can literally see the "lights" come on some time when they finally understand the material.
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