Continued work on the dystopia lesson plan, which uses The Matrix to explore the characteristics of dystopian society in various texts. Unfortunately, I found that part of one text was borrowed from elsewhere, so I had to redo some of…
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For Mac: Tweaking iTunes
MacDevCenter.com — Tweaking iTunes—some basic information on how to take control of iTunes, in case it ever gets out of line.
Depression: NPR’s "The Hardest Work You Will Ever Do"
Heard “The Hardest Work You Will Ever Do” this morning while getting ready for work. It’s one of the This I Believe essays on NPR. It has some really good description of what depression feels like. The part where she…
Daily Work: Writing, Cleaning, Sleeping
Watched Empire Falls while I continued work on the Hopper and Carver lesson plan. On breaks, I cleaned the kitchen a bit. There’s something so wrong with my life that I can’t get my kitchen clean. I have to work…
Sharon, Lisa, and I had lunch at the Courier. I had the usual—the Famous Courier Reuben. mmm. When we got back, I dug out the Cartman Bop Bag that I bought for the office at Christmas and blew it up.…
I was late to work . . . again . . . as usual :( NCTE has a new file server today. Well, actually, I guess they had it days ago. They just gave us all access today. The end…
For some unknown reason, I woke up at 6 AM and was wide awake. I got a drink of water and wisely convinced myself to sleep till 8:30. We ended up with some problems with the ReadWriteThink calendar this morning.…
I wrote the Inbox that will go out tomorrow, and working ahead, wrote the Inbox for next week as well. I finally grew completely exasperated with the stupid chair mat at work. Around the 11th, they put chair mats at…
Since I’m stuck on the interactive, I spent most of the day working on my own political cartoon lesson plan. Found some cool stuff to link to. We already have one political cartoon lesson on the site, but this one…
Continued work on the comic vocabulary images. I’m having a hard time optimizing them so that they are small enough for the tool without losing detail. They keep going pixellated and looking rough. I think I have to just keep…