Things I did This Weekend and a list of Woo-Hoo

[seraphcelene]

Good Morning, my darlings!

This weekend was full o' accomplishments. I was a monster, yo! Churning out assignments, for better or for worse, as fast as my exhausted, overly caffeinated little brain could handle. Writing academically for the first time in seven years was a challenge. I went through draft after draft after draft on one paper and still ended up writing until 6am the day that it was due. I know not how I survived. But by the end of the weekend I had much to show for my diligence and perseverance.

1. Completed one nearly five page paper (I got four pages and two lines) on the impact computer mediated communication on the writing skills of the Millennial Generation.
2. Completed one six page lesson plan about the impact of pandemics in the 19th century on the cultural consciousness, and the resultant Victorian preoccupation with themes of death, disease, and morbidity (is that redundant?) and the paralleling rise in the popularity of 20th century post-apocalyptic zombie fiction post SARS and swine flu outbreaks.
3. Passed one quiz with 15/15 correct.
4. Total hours slept between Friday night and Monday morning? 14.5

I also:

5. Went to a baby shower.
6. Had wine, cheese and yummy dinner with good friends.
7. Reconnected with jr. high school chums.
8. Watched more kpop dance video sequences than you could shake a stick at.


Woo-Hoo's

a) The little girl in the pink t-shirt and blue jeans, enraptured by the ten pack of Barbie outfits that her Mom was about to buy at Costco. She was in love. She just stared and stared, so absorbed in admiring the soon-to-be her very own package of awesomeness that she almost missed putting it on the conveyor belt for the cashier to ring it up.

b)The little old Asian man sitting at the bus stop this morning with his hat and long, thick, snow white beard.

c) Akira's Hip Hop Shop because Ando James Kyson Lee was one of my favorite parts of Heroes, and watching him be cute and make-out with a gorgeous sista-girl was pretty awesome.

d) Almond Champagne


I also did no writing for NaNo, which I am failing, but that is not a woo-hoo. What did you do this weekend?

Comments

[lettered]

Oooh. That sounds like a good weekend! I'm very interested in paper #2. Well, actually, #1 sound interesting too, but I think my Persephone in Victorian times wants to be a nurse. Hades has always been a scientist, because after all there's nothing else to do down there besides find things out, so I want there to be stuff about medical research in Victorian times. It's interesting, except I know nothing about it, so . . . not sure how to proceed.

Congrats on the quiz, and seeing friends. I love your woo hoos.

This weekend I worked on NaNo, went to work, and watched this crazy movie called "A Matter of Life and Death" for movie night. At work I mostly talked about dinosaurs all day. There is spermaceti from a sperm whale sitting on my desk.

[seraphcelene]

There is spermaceti from a sperm whale sitting on my desk.

My love for you knows no bounds.

Luckily for me #2 is just a lesson plan, so it's kinda willy nilly assembled. I don't have to actually show any hard evidence, just show the general path towards what I want students to know and how I aim to get them there. In the case of this lesson plan, I was focusing on themes in Victoria literature with Dracula as our representative novel. We're supposed to make it relevant to the youth which is why I threw in the 20/21st century stuff about the zombie apocalypse. For that we would be reading The Forest of Hands and Teeth.

I can't wait to read the results of your NaNo. It really sounds pretty awesome! And as for medicine in Victoriana. I wouldn't even know where to begin, although I could look check the databases at school and see what comes up! YAY for college access to free awesome databases!! Let me know if you want and I will forward you anything that I find of interest.

[thawrecka]

Those sound like very interesting academic topics!

[seraphcelene]

Thank you. I am especially interested in maybe actually teaching topic numero dos. I think that would make for major fun.

weekend update

[kormantic.livejournal.com]

I saw Assif Mandvi at the ACLU of Washington's 75th Anniversary! And drove to Portland to spend some time with planetalyx and kelly_yoyo. Not productive, but fun!

Re: weekend update

[seraphcelene]

Fun is always good. And important! I will be very happy when the semester is done and I can go have fun, too. Non-productive fun. Yes, that would be awesome.