Nope, English masters does not translate in the least (sorry). I am doing a practicum at the library in adult reader’s services. So far, I like the work, I just can’t stand going in for 4 hours, not getting paid and not having enough to do (the person I work with doesn’t want to overwhelm me, despite my telling her she won’t).
Back from shoveling–I’ve done half the driveway. The snow is heavy and the wind is fierce.
Tip-a-snake sounds like a fun evening, and for a good cause! Here’s hoping you see something you want at the silent auction SnakesCatLady.
Yay for Physics! I actually understood that, amazing since I haven’t really done anything with physics since high school. And a related comic!
Nickname? Cool… the only nicknames I’ve had were of my own making.
Lissla not a better memory, I was posting that from home and had my book there (Reader’s Digest collection of Fairy Tales, with Hansel and Gretel and the witch on the spines). I love fairy tales. If I knew of a fairy tale evening course I could take I would!
Yay! Somebody got it!
I’m waiting for Mom to rule on my explanation, though.
I am SO printing that comic…
Evenin’ all! Work to do this evening, but I am currently in a big river in Egypt about it. I also have bottle to wash and dinner (of some description) to create. I am thinking chicken and mushrooms in a cream sauce over tagliatelle, but I remain undecided. It will definitely involve chicken, as I have two chicken breasts defrosted in the fridge, but beyond that … I dunno!
I have to admit, my eyes glazed over during the discussion about TLM, primarily because my brain is so engaged at work that I choose not to utilise it overly at home. I also like to think that sometimes we can read too much into children’s stories, in our attempt to get too much out of them. If I went into that depth of analysis in determining which nursery rhymes and fairytales I should read/sing to HRH, I would eventually need my head read!
That said, I did make some sense of VBob’s physics lesson, and it brought back vague memories of high-school physics class and concepts like distance vs. displacement. My (math teacher) father would be proud of me!
Well, like I said, they were my main area of interest as an English major, so I do tend to get overzealous. 
One of the pet peeves I have with over-analyzing children’s literature is that people tend to over-react to the implications. “OMG! These stories are actually full of death and sex and violence! Somone PLEASE think of the children!!11!1!11!!!” The fact of the matter is that generations of children have been raised on these fairytales and have grown up to be just fine. I loved The Little Mermaid as a child yet somehow I managed to grow up to be a fine specimen of feminism. 
I love xkcd. It’s just so nerdy.
Heee… 
I love xkcd…
A final (?) note on physics. Inertia for Dummies: What we call “Centrifugal Force” is really just the effect of inertia, AKA “stuff keeps going straight.” When you yank yourself around a curve (like in a tight curve), the car and you “try” to keep going straight, and you feel that fact.
Everybody parsing and dissecting Andersen and Grimm… you people read Struwwelpeter (online version) lately? :eek:
No personal criticism intended, Haze. Just an observation of how different things affect me - TLM discussion makes my eyes roll up in my head, while VBob’s lesson on physics was fascinating! So much for me being right-brained, huh? One little comment though - HCA’s stories are definitely weird, but the Brothers Grimm are downright scary!!!
I’m BAAAAaaaaack!
I was on vacation for the last week and change. I didn’t actually go anywhere, but I had made a plan to get some certain things done, and I think I managed to accomplish my goals nicely. The rest of the time I was determined to chill the hell out and enjoy my vacation by watching movies with the wife and generally just doing what one does on a vacation that doesn’t involve travel. I was deliberately trying to stay away from some of the usual time suckers so as to be able to devote more time to the things I wanted to get done and always plan to do on vacations but never actually end up doing. As always, the vacation was was too short, but I feel that the goals I achieved did in some measure make it feel a bit longer than a week’s vacation usually feels. Although, there was also the new Family Day stat holiday that I hung my vacation on, so that helped make it seem a bit longer, too.
I did have a bit of fun Saturday before last. I was going to pick up the new 32-gig iPod Touch, but on the way we decided to stop into a few places that were along the route. One of them was, quite deliciously, the Lindt outlet store (which is attached to the warehouse in Mississauga, ON). Much to my surprise, their own prices were actually more expensive on the whole than most retail outlets that carry their products. Except their clearance stuff. Being that it was just after Valentine’s Day, they had all that stuff clearing out. The best deal though was on leftover Christmas stuff they had. They had boxes in the shape of Christmas trees *which contain 5 milk chocolate truffles apiece for $1.12. So we picked up a case of 18. 90 Lindt milk chocolate truffles for about $20 was a deal we just couldn’t pass up. (A bag of 15 usually costs $5 at regular retail prices)
Did I miss anything? Everyone present and accounted for? Everything still in one piece? No deaths, births or tawdry affairs?
[sub]* They called them “Friendship Trees” but I can’t stand that PC BS, so I’m
calling 'em like I see 'em.
I love the Bros. Grimm! I have their complete works. When I was a kid I had a paperback book with about 20 of their stories in it that I simply wore to bits.
I have a complete collection that’s falling apart. The Grimms did have some, er, grim stories to tell, although it’s funny to think that their versions were actually sanitized versions of the original folktales. Their stories tend to be more gruesome because they come from orally passed down tales that were meant to entertain adults, not children. Andersen’s lesser known tales are actually quite disturbing as well (although not as overtly violent as the Grimms’), but more theological and philosophical - and more consistent in their agenda, since they were all written by the same individual and not a collection of tales with unclear origins.
Okay, I’ll shut up now.
Yeah, Mindy’s back! Tawdry affairs just haven’t been the same without you.
One of my students sent me this email: teachr, hear is my homehork.
Homehork? :eek:
Would a homehork be like horking up a loogie (sp?)?
That might be painful, those sharp edges…
Was the work attached as an audio file?
I do believe that means that it’s something they horked it up at home, no? Kinda like the hairballs the cats likes to leave lying around from time to time.
WAG, of course… but given the stellar spelling skills demonstrated in the email, I don’t think it’s entirely impossible.
Homehork: n. hohm/horck. 1. assigned work so bad it resembles vomit on the page/screen. 2. end product of controlling instructor who insists students regurgitate pet theories back to him or her.
I like fairy tales. I took a KidLit class for LIS and there were some folk in there who thought the Disney versions were too violent. Ye gods! :eek: So, of course I told them about Cinderella’s wicked stepsisters cutting off their toes to fit into that glass slipper and all… Heh.
Google for Homehork (and here, and here, and … wow, there’s a whole lotta scholastic expectoratin’ goin’ on.)
:eek: I’ve never even heard that version!
Makes sense that the original version would have something like this in it, come to think of it…
No? I don’t remember where, but I remember reading it. IIRC the Prince took the step-sister at face value as being her, but while riding away with her it was brought to his attention somehow (the birds singing to him?) that blood was seeping out of the slipper.
Homehork…snicker. My cats do that all the time.
More on the saga of Dying Cousin…Mr. SCL managed to talk her out of her last attempt at leaving the place she is now, but yesterday brought a new whining phone message. It boils down to the fact that she is not getting 24/7 constant attention, which is what she wants. Mr. SCL basically told her if she finds someone to bring her home he will help get a bed installed, but she has to lease/buy one. We’re not buying it for her.
He also told me that he doubts if she has as much as 6 months left to live. It really made me feel bad about the uncharitable thoughts I have about her, but I am still going to try to protect my husband from overdoing. He is just too damned kind and people try to take advantage. He cannot work 7 days a week. And we are reasonably debt-free; I am not going to let him spend us into debt to finance her illness. She has property; she needs to sell the part she doesn’t live on.
She claims she has two people to care for her when she gets home; I hope they can stand her constant demands. My greatest fear is that they will quit and she will be there alone.
Enough of the drama…Tip a Snake is tonight! I have the most beautiful painted black velet tunic to wear…
Gee, wonder why Disney left that out of their version?
I always get upset at the fact that they’ve sanitized most of the original versions to remove the blood and gore, not to mention the unhappy endings. I much preferred it when Goldilocks got eaten for being such a nosey brat who ate other people’s porridge.