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1. those of you who don't know my good friend ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
datlowen are unlikely to be aware of his new journal wperoundup -- in which he presents, in digest form, the previously-digested news items appearing in Washington Post Express, a free publication for people who are too lazy or whose attention spans are too short to read the real Post [edit: or who prefer not to contort themselves into the positions required to read a broadsheet in the metro and thus risk incurring lawsuits by elbowing their fellow passengers in the face]*, but who still have enough self-respect not to be seen reading McPaper USA Today or The Washington Times. wperoundup is very, very funny. it makes me laugh and laugh. it's not quite The Onion, but it's daily!
*okay,jgesteve and fafou? happy now? ;-)
2.mearagrrl said: (Am confused though--the travel bit ends with "may get bumped"--did you?) and What are you going to be teaching??, highlighting the fact that my trip report entry may have been incomplete.
i did not, in fact, get bumped off any planes on the way back from canada. this is just as well, as i was sleepytired (slept for an hour in the airport, in fact, probably looking like some sort of vagrant, curled up across two seats with my bag straps wrapped around my arms) and very pleased to be home on time.
i'm teaching two sections of a one-hour optional discussion the kids can take in addition to the introduction to linguistics course for which i am the grader. i am determined to do a better job at this than the girl who graded the lecture and taught the discussion last year when i took the course; she was a flake and an airhead and consult your thesaurus for other criticisms, and i know of at least two people who'd been considering minoring in linguistics and changed their minds because of her. personally, since i wasn't taking the discussion for credit (i couldn't, since it wasn't available for graduate credit, but i signed up for it non-credit anyway), i eventually just stopped going. near-total waste of my time. i intend not to waste my students' time, as this seems to me to be a complete bummer.
3. it's strange, the way i type. i type by touch, but not "correctly" -- i do 95 wpm with two errors per page, when i get going, so the fact that it's not "correct" isn't really an issue, but i'm noticing now that i really type oddly. i use my left pinky finger for the left shift key, and otherwise not really at all; i use my left ring finger for the letter "a" and nothing else, not "z" or even "q", which is actually to the left of "a"; i use my left middle finger and index finger for everything else on the left side of the keyboard, but i use my right hand for "v" sometimes, and my left hand for "b" other times. the word "my" i spell with my right index finger on "m" and then my right middle finger on "y". i use my right ring finger hardly any more than i use my left one -- "o", apostrophes and quotation marks, backspace, and maybe the occasional backslash or semicolon or bracket. sometimes for commas and periods. my right pinky hits "enter" and that's it. my right thumb hits the space bar and nothing else, but i guess that's not really unusual. my left thumb is completely unemployed.
not that many of you are probably too interested in the mechanics of how i type. but i thought i'd share. i will now go get a soda and something with chocolate and peanuts in it before going to my afternoon class ("language development", which will be History of French; this pleases me, as i had "histoire de la langue" in my senior year and for a variety of reasons only some of which are extremely my fault i got a C+ or possibly even a C. it'll be good to have a clear indication on my transcript that i'm a Better Student now.).
4. unanticipated but very welcome result of brutal summer 7-hour days in the classroom: a 50-minute class feels like nothing.
datlowen are unlikely to be aware of his new journal wperoundup -- in which he presents, in digest form, the previously-digested news items appearing in Washington Post Express, a free publication for people who are too lazy or whose attention spans are too short to read the real Post [edit: or who prefer not to contort themselves into the positions required to read a broadsheet in the metro and thus risk incurring lawsuits by elbowing their fellow passengers in the face]*, but who still have enough self-respect not to be seen reading wperoundup is very, very funny. it makes me laugh and laugh. it's not quite The Onion, but it's daily!*okay,
jgesteve and fafou? happy now? ;-)2.
mearagrrl said: (Am confused though--the travel bit ends with "may get bumped"--did you?) and What are you going to be teaching??, highlighting the fact that my trip report entry may have been incomplete.i did not, in fact, get bumped off any planes on the way back from canada. this is just as well, as i was sleepytired (slept for an hour in the airport, in fact, probably looking like some sort of vagrant, curled up across two seats with my bag straps wrapped around my arms) and very pleased to be home on time.
i'm teaching two sections of a one-hour optional discussion the kids can take in addition to the introduction to linguistics course for which i am the grader. i am determined to do a better job at this than the girl who graded the lecture and taught the discussion last year when i took the course; she was a flake and an airhead and consult your thesaurus for other criticisms, and i know of at least two people who'd been considering minoring in linguistics and changed their minds because of her. personally, since i wasn't taking the discussion for credit (i couldn't, since it wasn't available for graduate credit, but i signed up for it non-credit anyway), i eventually just stopped going. near-total waste of my time. i intend not to waste my students' time, as this seems to me to be a complete bummer.
3. it's strange, the way i type. i type by touch, but not "correctly" -- i do 95 wpm with two errors per page, when i get going, so the fact that it's not "correct" isn't really an issue, but i'm noticing now that i really type oddly. i use my left pinky finger for the left shift key, and otherwise not really at all; i use my left ring finger for the letter "a" and nothing else, not "z" or even "q", which is actually to the left of "a"; i use my left middle finger and index finger for everything else on the left side of the keyboard, but i use my right hand for "v" sometimes, and my left hand for "b" other times. the word "my" i spell with my right index finger on "m" and then my right middle finger on "y". i use my right ring finger hardly any more than i use my left one -- "o", apostrophes and quotation marks, backspace, and maybe the occasional backslash or semicolon or bracket. sometimes for commas and periods. my right pinky hits "enter" and that's it. my right thumb hits the space bar and nothing else, but i guess that's not really unusual. my left thumb is completely unemployed.
not that many of you are probably too interested in the mechanics of how i type. but i thought i'd share. i will now go get a soda and something with chocolate and peanuts in it before going to my afternoon class ("language development", which will be History of French; this pleases me, as i had "histoire de la langue" in my senior year and for a variety of reasons only some of which are extremely my fault i got a C+ or possibly even a C. it'll be good to have a clear indication on my transcript that i'm a Better Student now.).
4. unanticipated but very welcome result of brutal summer 7-hour days in the classroom: a 50-minute class feels like nothing.
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