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We had Tornadoes and flooding. everyone has had a fun night I guess.
... don't ask about the cloths....
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You may not.
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Looks like someone is having a case of the Mondays!!
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Too late. Its short now.Don't do it! The ability to choose NOT to cut our hair is what seperates us from the beasts!Do it! Do it! Buy a pair of brogue boots too, and go full '69 skinhead!Ok, not that bald.
More like get the electric trimmer and put on the comb thingNOOOOOOOOOOOO
Ah well. I cannot look at Sypha in Castlevania and NOT think of Woran
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I called myself off.
I can work in the cold, or snow, or rain, or wind.
But not all four. This isn't disco.
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Eh, its shorter then that.Too late. Its short now.Don't do it! The ability to choose NOT to cut our hair is what seperates us from the beasts!Do it! Do it! Buy a pair of brogue boots too, and go full '69 skinhead!Ok, not that bald.
More like get the electric trimmer and put on the comb thingNOOOOOOOOOOOO
Ah well. I cannot look at Sypha in Castlevania and NOT think of Woran
Why would you do that to yourself.
Blink twice if this is a hostage situation.
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Random question: what would each FaWtL personnel's theme song be?
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We might get some rain...
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Why I sometimes despair living with MrT, part X.
Mr T is finally replacing a lamp on the ceiling. I could have done this, but being so tall, he just needs to stand on somethign while I would need a ladder.
Anyway. He switches off the light before starting to work. I would like him to turn off the electricity for that part of the house.
Because so much s@+~ has been messed up in this house that we cant be sure the wiring has been done correctly, and that its now safe to touch.
he's taking the chance anyway.
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Or possibly a rainstorm... The air smells of ozone.
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Random question: what would each FaWtL personnel's theme song be?
Another One Bites The Dust.
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Eh, its shorter then that.Too late. Its short now.Don't do it! The ability to choose NOT to cut our hair is what seperates us from the beasts!Do it! Do it! Buy a pair of brogue boots too, and go full '69 skinhead!Ok, not that bald.
More like get the electric trimmer and put on the comb thingNOOOOOOOOOOOO
Ah well. I cannot look at Sypha in Castlevania and NOT think of Woran
Why would you do that to yourself.
Blink twice if this is a hostage situation.
I like having short hair. Its easy and its practical and long hair reminds me of a lot of insanely gendered things that were pushed on me when I was younger and grew up in a very relidgious region of the country.
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Oh, you meant personal! Yes, that makes much more sense.
Does it have to be just one, I got a few (hundred) ideas.
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Woran's is definitely something by Joan Jett.
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Oh, you meant personal! Yes, that makes much more sense.
Does it have to be just one, I got a few (hundred) ideas.
Lol do you have one per alias? that could take awhile to list.
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Drejk I'm thinking "dr. love."
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Brody Dalle is more current for Woran.
OOooo I like that. I'm gonna have to add that to my play list.
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Lol do you have one per alias? that could take awhile to list.Oh, you meant personal! Yes, that makes much more sense.
Does it have to be just one, I got a few (hundred) ideas.
I have over 6,000 songs, how long you got?
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Lol so only about 30 per alias. heh.
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Brody Dalle is more current for Woran.OOooo I like that. I'm gonna have to add that to my play list.
One of the best cover songs ever! Marissa P is a national treasure.
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I'll check it out when I get home. but I do love that song. so I'm excited.
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I still haven't found the song that describes my current state but I'll get there.
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I like having short hair. Its easy and its practical and long hair reminds me of a lot of insanely gendered things that were pushed on me when I was younger and grew up in a very relidgious region of the country.Eh, its shorter then that.Too late. Its short now.Don't do it! The ability to choose NOT to cut our hair is what seperates us from the beasts!Do it! Do it! Buy a pair of brogue boots too, and go full '69 skinhead!Ok, not that bald.
More like get the electric trimmer and put on the comb thingNOOOOOOOOOOOO
Ah well. I cannot look at Sypha in Castlevania and NOT think of Woran
Why would you do that to yourself.
Blink twice if this is a hostage situation.
Yeah, my mom was super into Tupperware too.
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I'm happy I'm feeling glad I got sunshine in a bag i'm useless but not for long the future is coming on.
I could probably recite that whole song from memory.
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I'm happy I'm feeling glad I got sunshine in a bag i'm useless but not for long the future is coming on.
I could probably recite that whole song from memory.
We sing it almost every day on the way to school (,or at least we used to).
I bought it at Tower Records in LA on our honeymoon.
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I think I was in 9th grade when I first heard it.
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I like having short hair. Its easy and its practical and long hair reminds me of a lot of insanely gendered things that were pushed on me when I was younger and grew up in a very relidgious region of the country.Eh, its shorter then that.Too late. Its short now.Don't do it! The ability to choose NOT to cut our hair is what seperates us from the beasts!Do it! Do it! Buy a pair of brogue boots too, and go full '69 skinhead!Ok, not that bald.
More like get the electric trimmer and put on the comb thingNOOOOOOOOOOOO
Ah well. I cannot look at Sypha in Castlevania and NOT think of Woran
Why would you do that to yourself.
Blink twice if this is a hostage situation.
If it helps, you're talking to the guy that's been called "ma'am" for about thirty years now, usually straight to my face.
So I get it, sorry if my joking upset you, I'll stop, you look great with short hair!
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I think I was in 9th grade when I first heard it.
And suddenly I feel 12 years older.
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I miss having less shaggy hair than I do now for one reason similar to Woran - it dries so much faster and is so incredibly much easier to manage.
Or this (since Tacticslion seems to think I look like Eddie Vedder (wherever he gets that from...)
Google image search, mostly.
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One of the best cover songs ever! Marissa P is a national treasure.Brody Dalle is more current for Woran.OOooo I like that. I'm gonna have to add that to my play list.
My favorite cover of that song..
If you don't like links just type in " The protomen because the night" in youtube.
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Woran - looks good.
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Eh, its shorter then that.Too late. Its short now.Don't do it! The ability to choose NOT to cut our hair is what seperates us from the beasts!Do it! Do it! Buy a pair of brogue boots too, and go full '69 skinhead!Ok, not that bald.
More like get the electric trimmer and put on the comb thingNOOOOOOOOOOOO
Ah well. I cannot look at Sypha in Castlevania and NOT think of Woran
Hel-LO...
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Impus Major truly is in English Hell: Not only is he in a class with the single worst English instructor he's ever had ("Now, in this panel in Maus, notice that the shading on the alley is slightly darker than it was in the previous panel. What you you think the author was trying to imply with this?" even when the change is so subtle the answer is almost certainly, "He wasn't a professional artist."), but he's stuck in class with a bunch of sycophants who are eating this nonsense up.
He posted a rough draft of his analysis of Maus, and 3 of the 4 peer reviews were, "You arguments are fine, but how does your paper impact your readers? I didn't feel moved by what you wrote."
With not a single suggestion as to how he might change the essay to make it more "moving".
Yeah, that's helpful.
EDIT: And I will forever love Ray Bradbury for openly telling the English professor community that, "No, Fahrenheit 451 wasn't about censorship," and then having English professors disagree with him as to what he actually meant when he wrote it.
EDIT 2: I think that's the thing: "Do you think Shakespeare's use of metaphor in A Midsummer Night's Dream was effective? Why or why not?" is a reasonable question because it's open-ended and the student has to choose a side and argue it. But, "Shakespeare's use of metaphor in A Midsummer Night's Dream was clearly a metaphor for the ongoing class war in England at the time. Identify the key political figures that Shakespeare was satirizing and explain why you think he chose those characters to represent those politicians," is a boatload of nonsense.
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I like having short hair. Its easy and its practical and long hair reminds me of a lot of insanely gendered things that were pushed on me when I was younger and grew up in a very relidgious region of the country.Eh, its shorter then that.Too late. Its short now.Don't do it! The ability to choose NOT to cut our hair is what seperates us from the beasts!Do it! Do it! Buy a pair of brogue boots too, and go full '69 skinhead!Ok, not that bald.
More like get the electric trimmer and put on the comb thingNOOOOOOOOOOOO
Ah well. I cannot look at Sypha in Castlevania and NOT think of Woran
Why would you do that to yourself.
Blink twice if this is a hostage situation.
You are so lucky that short hair looks so good on you!
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Impus Major truly is in English Hell
This sentence makes no sense.
He posted a rough draft of his analysis of Maus, and 3 of the 4 peer reviews were, "You arguments are fine, but how does your paper impact your readers? I didn't feel moved by what you wrote."
With not a single suggestion as to how he might change the essay to make it more "moving".
Is he lacking for adjectives or personal insight or something? If he just wrote a dry treatise I could see that being underwhelming.
EDIT: And I will forever love Ray Bradbury for openly telling the English professor community that, "No, Fahrenheit 451 wasn't about censorship," and then having English professors disagree with him as to what he actually meant when he wrote it.
Bradbury, iirc, at the time was on the anti tv bandwagon, similar to how Gary Larson got famous in some circles for being on the anti computer bandwagon- he was a known luddite and a proud one at that. He also went in very "high" criticism of tv to the point that I am not at all surprised that the vast majority of readers missed the point including english professors, and also undertook a lot of shady practices with respect to getting paid as an author that ended up making tv more popular, but I think that was a lot of authors at the time.
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But NH - the author is dead! Sometimes literally!
(I think that the “death of the author” analysis has merit, but it doesn’t really apply as thoroughly as it often is in various fields because, as it turns out, authors are people with opinions and feelings and those don’t always agree with things we are comfortable with; so it’s much better to pretend that authors don’t matter or that their personal opinion was secretly ours all along - even if they don’t realize it... yet! - than to accept the true things that the work we admire and that we draw personal truth or inspiration from wouldn’t exist without whatever facet of the author we don’t agree with or find comfortable.)
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Drejk I'm thinking "dr. love."
Huh?
I am neither doctor, nor there is a lot of love in my life.
Google.
Nor is it particularly music I'd listen...
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goal: get Eldest signed in, and have responded to "Attendance" question by 9:30 AM.
step one: everyone is up, fed, and generally doing well before eight
step thirty-seven: it's 9:27 AM, so you hit "reload" on the flip-flabberin' page for the fifty-seventh time and hope it is literally anything other than a complete blank white page with "Dashboard!" written in small font on the top left. If so, then proceed to click on a class (or refresh until you can click on a class; alt strategy that's a sometimes food successful strategy is to manually type in the class you want to go to by checking your iDevice search history; this, unfortunately, is just as unreliable, but fortunately gets you hypothetically one step closer to your ultimate goal: world domination getting your eldest registered as technically having attended school today)
step ninety-six: it's 9:37; send an email to teacher with screen shots from both Desktop and iDevice showing that the thing will... not... load...
step ???: ???
step later: profit!
step *two hours later*: sign in completed! Huzzah!
Hurray for bandwidth limitations!
... wait. That... that m-... may be... the wrong... reaction?
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OH GOOD
The math lessons we'd already completed were not counted as being completed.
Now we get to do them agaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiin
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Yeah, Death of the Author is really interesting. As someone who writes as a hobby, it's annoying af, but as a teacher, there's definite merit to the fact that not everything reads the same way to everyone. Bradbury might not have meant to write an anti-censorship narrative, but it's really, really hard to deny that there's ample support in the text for someone who read it that way.
It's sort of why I take such a cavalier attitude to lit analysis with my kids. As long as you prove your point, you're good. If you want to have your class go after a specific prompt, you've got to lead them in a little. We're so fixated with "must be right, you are wrong," that there's something nice about literature having the potential to just explore the idea of "okay, but why do you think that?" without knowing your teacher's going to ding you if you don't 100% agree with them. I legitimately don't give two s#++s about most of what I assign , so I don't have any sacred cows for the kids to attack. Just give me your opinion, cite what gave you the idea, and proofread.
I'll take my nemesis Gatsby here - I don't know if Fitzgerald meant to write him as a metaphor for the death of the American Dream, but it's really, really easy to take that view, and so, so much of the text exists as commentary that can be used to support that. But I start the unit by talking about the role of the American Dream in the 1920s and how it might have looked to the Lost Generation returning from the war, so my kids know from the start that this might be a Thing they should be looking for as they read.
I've taught history. I know how much gets skipped over for time . Any teacher who's assuming the kids will have a vast background on the historical context of what they're reading without providing said background themselves is out of touch.
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Random question: what would each FaWtL personnel's theme song be?
OH GOOD
The math lessons we'd already completed were not counted as being completed.
Now we get to do them agaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiin
... well. "We."
*kicks back in chair, with feet up, while Eldest slaves over a hot iPad all day*
(No, seriously, those things can get waaaarrrrrm.)
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OH GOOD
The math lessons we'd already completed were not counted as being completed.
Now we get to do them agaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiin
... well. "We."
*kicks back in chair, with feet up, while Eldest slaves over a hot iPad all day*
(No, seriously, those things can get waaaarrrrrm.)
Is that a baked Apple?
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Yeah, Death of the Author is really interesting. As someone who writes as a hobby, it's annoying af, but as a teacher, there's definite merit to the fact that not everything reads the same way to everyone. Bradbury might not have meant to write an anti-censorship narrative, but it's really, really hard to deny that there's ample support in the text for someone who read it that way.
It's sort of why I take such a cavalier attitude to lit analysis with my kids. As long as you prove your point, you're good. If you want to have your class go after a specific prompt, you've got to lead them in a little. We're so fixated with "must be right, you are wrong," that there's something nice about literature having the potential to just explore the idea of "okay, but why do you think that?" without knowing your teacher's going to ding you if you don't 100% agree with them. I legitimately don't give two s&!+s about most of what I assign , so I don't have any sacred cows for the kids to attack. Just give me your opinion, cite what gave you the idea, and proofread.
I'll take my nemesis Gatsby here - I don't know if Fitzgerald meant to write him as a metaphor for the death of the American Dream, but it's really, really easy to take that view, and so, so much of the text exists as commentary that can be used to support that. But I start the unit by talking about the role of the American Dream in the 1920s and how it might have looked to the Lost Generation returning from the war, so my kids know from the start that this might be a Thing they should be looking for as they read.
I've taught history. I know how much gets skipped over for time . Any teacher who's assuming the kids will have a vast background on the historical...
Interesting, Scint.
Very interesting indeed.
Is that a baked Apple?OH GOOD
The math lessons we'd already completed were not counted as being completed.
Now we get to do them agaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiin
... well. "We."
*kicks back in chair, with feet up, while Eldest slaves over a hot iPad all day*
(No, seriously, those things can get waaaarrrrrm.)
Not in this household!
(But maybe VE's?)
((I... think... that's... right? I... I know language. >.>))