Books and Food
Finished Catch-22 and started on something a few more books that are a little easier and lighter-meaning some stories by Mark Twain and H.G. Wells. Catch-22, why were you so very hard to finish? It must have something to do with how grim and violent you were. Maybe it's just because my family is on a violent war movie extravaganza right now that makes me want to curl up in a ball and wait for all the guns and planes to stop shooting each other down. Either way, I've returned you back to the library and finally got around to starting A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and The Time Traveler, both of which deal with the ever confusing time travel plot device.
I went to Borders yesterday and bought 3 books, two of which were on sale for 3 dollars each. Brand new literature for cheap made my day.
I need to finish up all of these books before I leave again for school. There are many, and now I have the time. Especially since everyone else seems really busy this summer.
My beans are starting to flower! Hopefully I'll get to eat a batch before I leave for school again.
Also, I made chocolate panna cotta for the first time last night, but I'm not too sure about the texture because the one I ate started to melt when I was almost done taste testing it. The highlight of that adventure in the kitchen was using greek yogurt, which, I learned, is not much different from yogurt from the rest of the world too much. The recipe was from Sunset Magazine.
I recently went to see The Taming of the Shrew, one of Shakespeare's plays that I never did finish, (I may have read the first scene or page) and liked the 50s spin the company did on it. It got me thinking that it would be nice for students to take their books and watch the play at the same time when they first start reading such literature, as hearing the pace and tone of the dialogues and and watching the supplemental actions that go with it really would enhance their understanding of the material. They could follow the script from a hard copy in their hands, and be done with the whole play in a few hours rather than slaving over bland conversations from the old times for hours without understanding much of it.
Just a small thought.
That goes into my list of things schools could do to make things better in general, right next to hopping colleges, abolishing the grade system, and throwing standardized testing into big piles outside, pouring gasoline on them, then lighting a match.
I went to Borders yesterday and bought 3 books, two of which were on sale for 3 dollars each. Brand new literature for cheap made my day.
I need to finish up all of these books before I leave again for school. There are many, and now I have the time. Especially since everyone else seems really busy this summer.
My beans are starting to flower! Hopefully I'll get to eat a batch before I leave for school again.
Also, I made chocolate panna cotta for the first time last night, but I'm not too sure about the texture because the one I ate started to melt when I was almost done taste testing it. The highlight of that adventure in the kitchen was using greek yogurt, which, I learned, is not much different from yogurt from the rest of the world too much. The recipe was from Sunset Magazine.
I recently went to see The Taming of the Shrew, one of Shakespeare's plays that I never did finish, (I may have read the first scene or page) and liked the 50s spin the company did on it. It got me thinking that it would be nice for students to take their books and watch the play at the same time when they first start reading such literature, as hearing the pace and tone of the dialogues and and watching the supplemental actions that go with it really would enhance their understanding of the material. They could follow the script from a hard copy in their hands, and be done with the whole play in a few hours rather than slaving over bland conversations from the old times for hours without understanding much of it.
Just a small thought.
That goes into my list of things schools could do to make things better in general, right next to hopping colleges, abolishing the grade system, and throwing standardized testing into big piles outside, pouring gasoline on them, then lighting a match.