Random stuffs
I changed my journal theme and some icons and stuff. Hadn't done that it a while.
Also haven't posted in waaaaaaaaaaaaay too long. I mean to post more often. I just have been sucking at doing stuff I mean to do lately. I mean to change that. Hopefully, I will.
Yesterday was reasonably productive, despite the fact that I must have slept in a funny position because when I woke up, everything hurt.
I miss urban_exotic a lot. I need someone to hang out with!
Two friends had surgery yesterday. Several other friends are dealing with major problems of varying sorts. C'mon universe! Give these folks a break!
Tonight is "spring forward". While I do like the longer daylight into the evening, I hate it being dark when I get up all over again. I have a fairly light case of SAD, but having daylight savings time start this early really throws me off and messes that up, bad. I shall get out my happy light and hope that using it in the mornings will counteract the daylight savings time mess.
Spring has been lovely so far. Oh, I'm expecting at least one more cold snap with more snow, but it won't last long. Yay for spring!
My students (with a few exceptions, but those rarely come to class) did fairly well on the midterm exam. Paper one is due on Thursday. I've been getting a surprising number of emails from students working on their papers over spring break. Surprising in that even one would be a surprise, and I've had emails from several. Including one who was worried about being a pain. I told her I'd rather answer a bunch of questions than have to give out low grades. And generally the ones who ask questions are not likely to be the low grades anyway. The ones who really do poorly don't ask questions. Not that that's surprising. I expect I will get a deluge of questions this coming week, as we get closer to when the paper's due. Figuring that the best plan would have been to do some prep work before the break and then do the writing after break. Or do a rough draft before and edit and polish after. But the bulk of them probably just have some vague plans and ideas (because paper topics came in a couple weeks ago and they went back out before the break) and will do the real work this coming week.
Which is probably what I would have done as an undergrad. But I knew even then that I could, with a reasonable amount of forethought, throw together a five page paper in 48 hours or less. Not everyone can do that. I think that's one of the things you learn as an undergrad - how you do things, and how to maximize your own strengths and minimize your own weaknesses. Even if you never have to do the same sorts of tasks once you're out of school, the concept transfers over.
That's the idea, anyway.
In other news, the trailers for Tron: Legacy and Iron Man II are amazing. At first the idea of them resurrecting Tron worried me. But then I found out it was more sequel than remake. Though I gather there will be quite a few parallels to the first movie. But it looks damn good, isn't ignoring the previous movie in favor of new technology, and both Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner will be in it!
Also haven't posted in waaaaaaaaaaaaay too long. I mean to post more often. I just have been sucking at doing stuff I mean to do lately. I mean to change that. Hopefully, I will.
Yesterday was reasonably productive, despite the fact that I must have slept in a funny position because when I woke up, everything hurt.
I miss urban_exotic a lot. I need someone to hang out with!
Two friends had surgery yesterday. Several other friends are dealing with major problems of varying sorts. C'mon universe! Give these folks a break!
Tonight is "spring forward". While I do like the longer daylight into the evening, I hate it being dark when I get up all over again. I have a fairly light case of SAD, but having daylight savings time start this early really throws me off and messes that up, bad. I shall get out my happy light and hope that using it in the mornings will counteract the daylight savings time mess.
Spring has been lovely so far. Oh, I'm expecting at least one more cold snap with more snow, but it won't last long. Yay for spring!
My students (with a few exceptions, but those rarely come to class) did fairly well on the midterm exam. Paper one is due on Thursday. I've been getting a surprising number of emails from students working on their papers over spring break. Surprising in that even one would be a surprise, and I've had emails from several. Including one who was worried about being a pain. I told her I'd rather answer a bunch of questions than have to give out low grades. And generally the ones who ask questions are not likely to be the low grades anyway. The ones who really do poorly don't ask questions. Not that that's surprising. I expect I will get a deluge of questions this coming week, as we get closer to when the paper's due. Figuring that the best plan would have been to do some prep work before the break and then do the writing after break. Or do a rough draft before and edit and polish after. But the bulk of them probably just have some vague plans and ideas (because paper topics came in a couple weeks ago and they went back out before the break) and will do the real work this coming week.
Which is probably what I would have done as an undergrad. But I knew even then that I could, with a reasonable amount of forethought, throw together a five page paper in 48 hours or less. Not everyone can do that. I think that's one of the things you learn as an undergrad - how you do things, and how to maximize your own strengths and minimize your own weaknesses. Even if you never have to do the same sorts of tasks once you're out of school, the concept transfers over.
That's the idea, anyway.
In other news, the trailers for Tron: Legacy and Iron Man II are amazing. At first the idea of them resurrecting Tron worried me. But then I found out it was more sequel than remake. Though I gather there will be quite a few parallels to the first movie. But it looks damn good, isn't ignoring the previous movie in favor of new technology, and both Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner will be in it!