I don’t know if God will be amused or appalled, but I plan on including the Hub in my bedtime prayers tonight. Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Hubble ain’t 6 feet deep… For the want of a screw, a nut was lost. For the want of a hinge, a door [...]
Archive for September, 2008
All Over, Rover?!
Posted in Heavy Thoughts, Stuff on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Enticing the Jaded
Posted in Reading, School on September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My urban middle school crew is pretty tough this year. They may be younger in age than the Bard fans I had in May, but they already know the design of the system–that it’s meant to pass them along, keep them in their place, and maintain the effect of educating without actually teaching them anything.
Today I [...]
But these are all lies…
Posted in Heavy Thoughts, School on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love. (All’s Well That Ends Well, 4.1.94)
My Sociology class is getting very depressing. Not the fault of my prof, he could be one of the Elves of Dark Humour, and does his best to help us navigate the quagmire of [...]
I heart Wills
Posted in School, Writing on September 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Revisiting Twelfth Night helps me recall all that is wonderful, and so maddening, about Shakespeare’s works. I have, it would seem, a straightforward assignment for Lit Studies: explain what Twelfth Night “means”. Think about it…
See?! Trying to define any of his works is like trying to hold slime in a strainer while you cross the yard from [...]
News to me…
Posted in Reading, School, Writing on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just had an update on my daughter’s homework. Being in parochial school, she gets some nifty, sometimes grinding, homework assignments from her history/geography/social studies/religion teacher (small school). Tonight she had to check out Bathsheba and learn her story. Relating it to me, I was struck by the uncanny similarity to this other tale I know. [...]
