i really, really love my little brother. he's serving an LDS mission in Madrid, Spain and he sent me an email the other day saying this: "It is hard to see the beauty (or the shortcomings) of a painting with the nose pressed to the canvas. Similarly with our lives, self-analysis can sometimes be a difficult process... Sometimes the things that we need most, that are the best for our development, are the most bitter." how in the world did this kid get so wi...
Monday, 22 December 2008
Thursday, 18 December 2008
The last week of class I started getting a little laissez-faire in my teaching approach. In that I maybe turned the last week into a motivational seminar on how and why we need to be creative and compassionate people. We talked about how much fun they had writing their final paper (a completely creative work with no structural rules at all--they were terrified of it initially but really liked it at the end) and why they had fun. Some answers: "I'm not used to thinking outside of the box so this was really great." "I spend a lot of time thinking...
Tuesday, 16 December 2008
proof that school can be seirously awesome (pictures from the happening, which was maybe the best group project i've ever been a part of--pictures totally pirated from sarah's dapper blog):sarah doing a sommersault in the middle of class (and over the hopskotch court another friend drew on the groun...
Thursday, 11 December 2008
6. had students write one-line biographies about themselves. cried all the way to my car reading them because they are kind, loyal, trustwrothy, and overall decent people.The man who was curious, helpful, and respectful.The man who loved to cook for his family.The man who cared for others.The man who was loyal and loved his friends and family.The man who was thoughtful, compassionate, and loved his family.The man who treated everyone with respect and dignity.The man who loved animals.The woman who loved everything about life.The woman who loved...
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
*of the cold: i am making progress. i know that because i walked outside and thought, "oh this isn't so bad...it's actually kind of nice out." then saw that it was 26 degrees out. 1. 4 hours of sleep. upon waking, edited grad school/law school apps for friends, agreed to edit a few more. wrote letters of recommendation for students. 2. scrapped ALL THREE of my potential workshop essays (which i labored over for many moons, or at least a few weeks) at last minute because none of them were all that great. wrote entire new essay complete with semaphore...
Monday, 8 December 2008
Explanation (shamelessly piratedfromJohnsblog)The Real Meaning of Paper Airplanes:"In an effort to completely unify my life into one amalgamous blob of artistic endeavor I am inviting people from all my classes to participate in one of my other classes at an event known as HACK•A•CLASS. What we are asking, is for people to show up and perform that which they feel like showing up and performing in a classroom setting with as many other people performing...
Saturday, 6 December 2008
kevin kelly has a lot of really interesting things to say in his wired article of the internet's genesis--what was expected and what actually happened. here are two things that stuck out to me:1.The scope of the Web today is hard to fathom. The total number of Web pages, including those that are dynamically created upon request and document files available through links, exceeds 600 billion. That's 100�pages per person alive.How could we create so much, so fast, so well? In fewer than 4,000 days, we have encoded half a trillion versions of our...
Thursday, 4 December 2008
If the weather is fine on a Saturday afternoon when a gal should really be doing homework, said gal and pal should go get icecream in a town thirty minutes east of the homework assignment. There is absolutely no way to prepare for the awesomeness known as Wilton, IA (pop. 2,829). Wilton's own official website tried to but this is the best it could come up with: "Three miles south of Interstate 80, ideally located at the junction of Highways 927 and...
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
(this is a repost from transpacific)I have been thinking a lot about reading--or my lack of reading, which is not entirely true since I read quite a bit--I suppose maybe my lack of reading things that grip me, that make me want to stand up and shout, "This is what it's all about!" But there is one short story that I read a few months ago that moved me entirely: Nam Le's "Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice." The title comes...
Monday, 1 December 2008
two things:1. i forgot to mention that i got slightly snowed-in in laramie, wy. my friend kendra suggested that it might be "romantic" and then proceeded to paint a scene including a rustic cabin, a roaring fire, and a good man. to which i asked her, "wasn't that a scene from white christmas?" which it is, basically, the one with the sandwiches and the fireplace. but it reminded me of this:which is a) amazing and b) reminds me always of my cousins because we watched this maybe 100,000 times on this cruise once. note: being nearly snowed-in in...
i came late in life to my love of the narwhal. here is the reason why:and this:i mean, excuse me? most adorable thing in the world! and for only $750 (once you get to china that is) you too can play with a baby panda. i'm not saying that this might be one of my dreams in life, but it is. anyway, moral of the story. i think all of my dreams just came true with this panda frying p...
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