Month: August 2013

  • More Lists. Of Lists.

    Today’s List:

    — Email TYCA reps with TYCA to You topic. Deadline for them Sept 1; deadline for me Oct. 1.
    — Create a list of things to revise or update or whatever for tomorrow on campus.
    — Read the items I scanned in yesterday & figure out where they should go on the teacher-version of the schedule. 
    Brainstorming: “Children’s Insults,” by Peter Farb (1 page) & “Freewriting,” by Peter Elbow (2 pages) should/could all be assigned in the first weeks of the semester (because it takes the students awhile – for some reason – to get Carlin’s book).
    “The Self,” by Jose Ortega y Gasset (2 pages) & “My Daily Dives in the Dumpster,” by Lars Eighner (4 pages) could follow those readings, too, if necessary.
    Later on in the semester, I could use: “Notes on Punctuation,” by Lewis Thomas (2 pages) & “How Dictionaries are Made,” by S.I. Hayakawa (2 pages) & “On Going Home,” by Joan Didion (2 pages) & “Declaration of Independence,” (3 pages) & “Campus Racism,” by Nikki Giovanni (3 pages) & “On Being From Fargo,” by Tim Lingren (3 pages) & “Where I Lived and What I Lived For,” by Thoreau (7 pages) & “August 2002: Night Meeting,” by Ray Bradbury (4 pages).
    Tomorrow’s List (and Thursday’s List and possibly Friday’s List):
    — Revise Project 1.5, Project 2, Project 6, and Project 7 in English 110.
    — Update student-version of Eng110 syllabus; it really just needs the basics (deadlines mostly & when to have what books?) on the schedule.
    — Revise GBP in English 120 to encompass more CCSS. What else needs revision in that course for those standards?
    *Page count based on how many copied pages it was coming out of the copier, not pages in the book it came from.

  • I got my butt – and bags & bags of stuff (paper towels, tissue, etc.) – all the way to campus, and now I don’t know where to start.

    So, what do I do first? Log into my computer, check FB, check email, and then come here to compose a To Do List.
    Yeppers. Here she goes:
    — Bring boxes of stuff I want to get rid of to bug & put in trunk. On the way home, bring that stuff to the thrift store in Breck. Yay.
    — Recall projects I wanted to change in Eng110. Incorporate ideas from TEDx. = Created a Brief Eng110 Catalog of Projects where I list what we might do, but I’ll create detailed handouts too. 
    — Clean up office more?
    — Scan in readings at Copy Center (there was one about dumb people from some book I saw when I was cleaning last week?).
    — Change the dates in the Online WL240 course because that class might “go.” Double-check things in the Online Eng120 course?
    — Revise this list as I go along today.
    — Visited with Cheryl & Dana!
    *Later: Power of the Purse party at mom’s house; Audrey is in town, too! Yippee!

  • I guess I have been too busy to recreationally read this summer? I’m not proud of that, but instead of a guilt trip, I’ll vow to read three books before school starts (Sedaris’ latest book is just sitting in my Kindle!!)… AND watch some TED talks, too. I just downloaded their app & I’m going to the TEDx event in Fargo next Friday! So excited to geek out!