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24/3/08 13:44Happy birthday ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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I went to the Metropolitan Museum on Saturday with the Extended Family! We saw all the Old European Guys - I was vaguely interested in the blog.mode and of course the exhibit on reading Chinese paintings. We didn't get to those, but that's all right, as Meaghan thinks their "suggested" admission is very funny. We'll go back there, and to the MoMA, which is also having some interesting exhibits on. (Their admission isn't optional, but it's been ages since I've been there...Also, 50 years of Helvetica! Oh, the typeface geekery!) Also, I saw the Temple of Dendur, which I had been wanting to see since reading Annie on my Mind. Living in big cities is so that you can pretend you live in a book!
We have no internet. I am sick of refreshing and hoping that I can pick up enough of a wireless internet connection to check my e-mail. The cable company is giving us some line about how it's Very Very Complicated to wire the apartment. If nothing happens, well, I'll have to suck up the cost for a land line and get DSL. I can not live like this.
...I just realized one of my credit cards is at 23% APR. This is okay because I have never paid a cent of interest since I've had the card, but it's not because one of these days I'm going to get absentminded and miss a payment. Why are they charging me 23%, anyway?
We have no internet. I am sick of refreshing and hoping that I can pick up enough of a wireless internet connection to check my e-mail. The cable company is giving us some line about how it's Very Very Complicated to wire the apartment. If nothing happens, well, I'll have to suck up the cost for a land line and get DSL. I can not live like this.
...I just realized one of my credit cards is at 23% APR. This is okay because I have never paid a cent of interest since I've had the card, but it's not because one of these days I'm going to get absentminded and miss a payment. Why are they charging me 23%, anyway?
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24/3/08 22:19And one thing that I forgot about:
Will not be workshopping any short story at Wiscon, because I didn't check before making my travel plans and I'm getting in too late Friday for it. Which is sad, because it is full of cultural appropriation! And also, I would have had to finish it!
I'm in a mood to be writing fiction without having more than the faintest idea of what I would want to write. There's The One That Needs Research, and The One That Needs Other, Different Research, and The One That Is A Sequel And Also Potentially Offensive.
At the library, a kid asked me for help with his homework. He was really cute, really bright, and he had the habit of completely inappropriate disclosure that some nine-year-olds have. But - I was shocked at some of the inappropriateness of his homework. Of course I'm working from incomplete information, I don't know the details of how much of these things should have been covered in class. But. Is it really appropriate to tell a define an object pronoun - for a 4th grader - using terms like 'predicate' and 'preposition'? I'm not going to say definitely no, because I don't know the first thing about teaching, but it seems like the kind of homework he had would need a lot of help from parents or other helpful adults. And isn't that where kids who have very busy parents, or parents who don't speak English as a first language, or parents who don't know what 'predicate' and 'preposition' mean, start getting left behind? I might just be ready to throw in my lot with the people who are opposed to homework on principle.
On the way home, I got some Chinese food. My fortune cookie said that my rapport with children lifts up my spirits. Okay, today it did. :)
Will not be workshopping any short story at Wiscon, because I didn't check before making my travel plans and I'm getting in too late Friday for it. Which is sad, because it is full of cultural appropriation! And also, I would have had to finish it!
I'm in a mood to be writing fiction without having more than the faintest idea of what I would want to write. There's The One That Needs Research, and The One That Needs Other, Different Research, and The One That Is A Sequel And Also Potentially Offensive.
At the library, a kid asked me for help with his homework. He was really cute, really bright, and he had the habit of completely inappropriate disclosure that some nine-year-olds have. But - I was shocked at some of the inappropriateness of his homework. Of course I'm working from incomplete information, I don't know the details of how much of these things should have been covered in class. But. Is it really appropriate to tell a define an object pronoun - for a 4th grader - using terms like 'predicate' and 'preposition'? I'm not going to say definitely no, because I don't know the first thing about teaching, but it seems like the kind of homework he had would need a lot of help from parents or other helpful adults. And isn't that where kids who have very busy parents, or parents who don't speak English as a first language, or parents who don't know what 'predicate' and 'preposition' mean, start getting left behind? I might just be ready to throw in my lot with the people who are opposed to homework on principle.
On the way home, I got some Chinese food. My fortune cookie said that my rapport with children lifts up my spirits. Okay, today it did. :)