Paperwork
I thought the most time-consuming part of making my 101 syllabus was going to be going over the new readings book for this year and figuring out what to include and how to supplement (this collection is even more dire than the one we used last year). What was actually going to take the most time is typing in all the dates on the schedule. Good lord.
That said, now that I have all my dates typed in and have figured out when each of the four papers will be due, the rest of it is falling into place fairly nicely. What with holidays, student conferences, peer review workshops, and the like, the number of days I have to fill with stuff looks less daunting. Once I'm done with that, I'll just need to write out the four big paper assignments, and I'll be pretty much finished and ready for the semester to start. Well, for 101, anyway. I might not be able to say the same about my thesis. (Although this afternoon I sat down and in about fifteen minutes came up with a one-page outline of my topic as it stands now, basically just off the top of my head, so, you know, I'm probably doing okay.)
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I watched the first episode of Spaced on YouTube last night, and...yeah, that was pretty entertaining. Think I'll wait for the rest on DVD, though, 'cause I could use some closed captioning for a few of the characters.
I thoroughly enjoyed the acting out of the picture-taking montage from Green Card, and the song from The King and I over their meetings in the coffee shop was great. It reminds me more of Corner Gas stylistically than anything else--CG was very fond of the brief jump-cuts to daydreams--but I definitely see some Northern Exposure influence there as well. I think once I see more of it I will quite enjoy it.
That said, now that I have all my dates typed in and have figured out when each of the four papers will be due, the rest of it is falling into place fairly nicely. What with holidays, student conferences, peer review workshops, and the like, the number of days I have to fill with stuff looks less daunting. Once I'm done with that, I'll just need to write out the four big paper assignments, and I'll be pretty much finished and ready for the semester to start. Well, for 101, anyway. I might not be able to say the same about my thesis. (Although this afternoon I sat down and in about fifteen minutes came up with a one-page outline of my topic as it stands now, basically just off the top of my head, so, you know, I'm probably doing okay.)
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I watched the first episode of Spaced on YouTube last night, and...yeah, that was pretty entertaining. Think I'll wait for the rest on DVD, though, 'cause I could use some closed captioning for a few of the characters.
I thoroughly enjoyed the acting out of the picture-taking montage from Green Card, and the song from The King and I over their meetings in the coffee shop was great. It reminds me more of Corner Gas stylistically than anything else--CG was very fond of the brief jump-cuts to daydreams--but I definitely see some Northern Exposure influence there as well. I think once I see more of it I will quite enjoy it.