July 22, 2007

• I feel I may have become more enlightened today from reading the July 2007 issue of SPIN magazine on the way home from “the lakes” than from CompTales (haven’t finished You Just Don’t Understand, mind you – I try to read 5+ books at once). [With that said, the story that I saddened me most was the one at the back about the church – Westboro Baptist church – that feels we’re all going to die because god hates gays, and that’s why the soldiers are dying in Iraq. No, they’re dying because of good ol’ George Bush.]
  
  Anyhow, CompTales ‘drops’ too many names and too many conferences; I’d rather just read a story with a few metaphors I get instead of having to research who they are talking about. That’s what a research journal/book is for. These are narrative pieces about teaching and such. While, I feel some of the stories are pompous in nature, there are a few so far that I have identified with greatly. I still think, though, that if the book had been written only by graduate students/TAs/first-year teachers, it would be better. It would speak volumes to be written at a more naïve level instead of this I-tell-my-students-this-story-because-I-am-above-those-mistakes-now attitude.
  
  I have much to write about my mini-excursion to Duluth (I promised myself a mini-vacation this summer… some solitude… peace & quiet among the forests & the power to sing to anything I wanted to in the Bug), but I am warm (keeping the A/C to just the living room & bedroom) and the wireless connection is weak.

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