Did my last presentation: curriculum design and evaluation ( Read more... )

Crunching numbers on reading times and ran out of beer.
It's just downhill from here.

I have finished 3/4 final project presentations, the last one on Mon. Then I need to actually finish the projects...some due next week, some due the week after. But I have information gathered, some things even written, and a personal correspondence (email) from Deidre Wilson, one of the original creators of Relevance Theory (is "create" the ( Read more... )

Ok, for those of you interested, here´s what is keeping me busy currently ( Read more... )

that means lots of work. so far I've answered 1.25 questions and have written 11 pages. Second language acquisition theories and all that ( Read more... )

I saw Alice in Wonderland, just finished reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The book is absolutely phenomenal (I'd read it some time ago, but had to re-read it before the movie. They didn't have Through the Looking Glass at the library or I'd have read that too. The movie, in 3D, was awesome. Good characters (although really, the queen ( Read more... )

Here are some projects that I´m thinking about...I have to do four ( Read more... )

Yesterday it rained ALL DAY. Unusual for February. Lots of streets were flooded, lots of pantlegs were wetted, and lots of bikes were not ridden...such as mine. I woke up and took a taxi to work instead of biking...annoying ( Read more... )

It´s about midnight, I´ve been up since about 7am and have my alarm clock set for 5:30am so that I can go to The Anglo (where I teach) and pick up some materials for my class on Thursday (which most likely will have a whopping 0 students since no one has signed up but they are hoping that some lost soul will get a hair up his ass to randomly walk ( Read more... )

So here in Mexico, where tradition says they celebrate Los Días de Los Muertos, we do in fact celebrate Halloween...kind of.  Last night was the first night of Halloween.  Huh?  Well, no one here is happy with just one day of festivities.  There was an enormous party planned: more than 3000 tickets sold.  I didn´t buy a ticket in advance though, ( Read more... )