Hmm...
I heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord; but you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift, the baffled king composing hallelujah
I wonder: #1 what that means, and #2 if he's actually got a tune in mind.
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I like my blue shirt.
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I wrote a treatise on irony in my head while showering. I disturb myself sometimes. Now I should just get it down on paper, and turn the random treatise-writing to more useful things, like the assignment I have due.
Meanwhile, my students will get a lesson on irony this week. Pity them. Then again, several of them have asked about it, and several more have shown they have little grasp of what it is, so it's just as well.
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We are having a Grand Planning Session tomorrow before dance. Or rather we're meeting up before dance, and I shall have plans to discuss. I think I know what angle to use, and the basic structure I want. A bit more planning and I should have a working plan to throw around.
My mind seems to be coming up with all kinds of grand plans that shall probably never come to fruition. The best part is, some of these actually have money involved. The not-so-good part is, the ones I'm fondest of don't. xD I'm not sure why I'm doing this: possibly because for once in my life I'm not being challenged at all and haven't been for a while, except in faith, which doesn't really count. So basically I'm creating challenges for myself. I never thought of myself as one of those people who thrive on challenges. >< I really don't think I am, in fact, because I fall apart under pressure.
But I am someone who needs the company of people better and smarter than I, and needs to be learning stuff and doing stuff that will make my brain work - not just random brain teasers or abstract puzzles or being in school for the sake of the certificate or getting to the next level, but actually learning something I didn't know yesterday, and applying it. Then I like to spread it around a few times - write it, turn it inside out, teach it to other people, get taught by other people - till I really get it.
You know, I don't think I knew that about myself either, till I got stopped here and stuck spinning my wheels. Without anything to learn, or at least without being taught something new in a structured learning environment, I'm realising that I really like to learn. I horrify myself sometimes. I knew I wanted to stay in school for the rest of my life, but I figured at some point it would be as a professor, torturing teaching others. Being a student forever and ever and omg, taking exams at 60 really don't sound too appealing.
I'm not sure I'll make a good researcher though. I like to know stuff that's already been found out, not go find out new stuff for myself. Or maybe that'll change once I know enough to know what questions I actually want to ask? Because it just happens that I'm at a low enough level that most of what I want to know has already been found out; what hasn't, I can't find out for myself since I don't have a lab or a grant or sufficient knowledge, really. :D So right now I'm reading anything that sounds interesting. Which actually is more fun than research, because there's no need to specialise. :D
I guess that's why I was eating my way through non-fiction like the proverbial bookworm earlier in the year, and why I'm itching to again. I will, too, once I'm done with L'Engle.
It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift, the baffled king composing hallelujah
I wonder: #1 what that means, and #2 if he's actually got a tune in mind.
~*~
I like my blue shirt.
~*~
I wrote a treatise on irony in my head while showering. I disturb myself sometimes. Now I should just get it down on paper, and turn the random treatise-writing to more useful things, like the assignment I have due.
Meanwhile, my students will get a lesson on irony this week. Pity them. Then again, several of them have asked about it, and several more have shown they have little grasp of what it is, so it's just as well.
~*~
We are having a Grand Planning Session tomorrow before dance. Or rather we're meeting up before dance, and I shall have plans to discuss. I think I know what angle to use, and the basic structure I want. A bit more planning and I should have a working plan to throw around.
My mind seems to be coming up with all kinds of grand plans that shall probably never come to fruition. The best part is, some of these actually have money involved. The not-so-good part is, the ones I'm fondest of don't. xD I'm not sure why I'm doing this: possibly because for once in my life I'm not being challenged at all and haven't been for a while, except in faith, which doesn't really count. So basically I'm creating challenges for myself. I never thought of myself as one of those people who thrive on challenges. >< I really don't think I am, in fact, because I fall apart under pressure.
But I am someone who needs the company of people better and smarter than I, and needs to be learning stuff and doing stuff that will make my brain work - not just random brain teasers or abstract puzzles or being in school for the sake of the certificate or getting to the next level, but actually learning something I didn't know yesterday, and applying it. Then I like to spread it around a few times - write it, turn it inside out, teach it to other people, get taught by other people - till I really get it.
You know, I don't think I knew that about myself either, till I got stopped here and stuck spinning my wheels. Without anything to learn, or at least without being taught something new in a structured learning environment, I'm realising that I really like to learn. I horrify myself sometimes. I knew I wanted to stay in school for the rest of my life, but I figured at some point it would be as a professor, torturing teaching others. Being a student forever and ever and omg, taking exams at 60 really don't sound too appealing.
I'm not sure I'll make a good researcher though. I like to know stuff that's already been found out, not go find out new stuff for myself. Or maybe that'll change once I know enough to know what questions I actually want to ask? Because it just happens that I'm at a low enough level that most of what I want to know has already been found out; what hasn't, I can't find out for myself since I don't have a lab or a grant or sufficient knowledge, really. :D So right now I'm reading anything that sounds interesting. Which actually is more fun than research, because there's no need to specialise. :D
I guess that's why I was eating my way through non-fiction like the proverbial bookworm earlier in the year, and why I'm itching to again. I will, too, once I'm done with L'Engle.