( She is far more interesting than she was a year ago )

:looks at weather forecast:
102, 104, 103, 102, 102, 102.
:curses softly:

If it wasn't for the weather, Norman wouldn't be that bad of a place to live.  Maybe not my first choice, but not terrible.

I'm planning a new class for Fall and could use your help (as always!). Do you have a favorite concept item (cars, technology, etc.) or futurist?  Know a good website or article about future predictions?  Have a good short piece of lit. that I should include?  It would extra-special if you had a favorite article or book on analyzing cultures by ( Read more... )

We had to put Kes. to sleep yesterday. End stage kidney failure and a quickly growing tumor behind his eye that already made it painful to eat. That's two cats in less than a year, which sucks.

OMG squee!

http://uk.reuters.com//news/video?videoId=102598&src=vidAd1

My students have all be arguing (quite reasonably given the assignment parameters) that horror movies reflect and critique the social movements of their culture.  I'm trying to figure if there's a horror movie that critiques a culture not its own (or the culture of a time not its own).  Ideas?

D. grins and coos at the cover of Maus II.

So I taught my first week of classes despite being 1+ weeks overdue.  But I'm now due at the hospital in 5 hours to begin kicking this baby out.  This is really not how I wanted things to go, but as I'm now approaching potentially dangerously overpregnant, it's the way it's going to be. 

Still pregnant.  New theory: Baby is waiting for Friday to have a 1/23 birthday.  Other new theory: Baby is waiting for her paternal grandfather to show up on Thursday. 

My MiL thought that it would be a good idea if I wrote down all the reasons that we've been claiming that she's waiting to show up.

• She was waiting for G.'s best friend.
• She was waiting for both her Grandmothers to be here.
• She was waiting for G. to finish the proofreading for his book.
• She's waiting for her great-grandfather's birthday.
• (eta) She's ( Read more... )