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Embracing the mundane

By ~LS~ On March 10, 2010 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Gratitudes, Threes

Someone pointed out to me that I should take time to observe and even appreciate the little things around me, like the changing seasons or paint peeling on the wall. My response? Seasons don’t change in BR and really? Paint peeling? Ok, ok. I get the point. I need to start using my gratitude website and promoting it.

So, not so much gratitude as things that I was present for today:

1. I’m amused that I’m hoarding ink jet cartridges, something I just now noticed.
2. I really do have a lot of colorful markers.
3. I’ve had three d10′s on my desk for years, left over from a torturous attempt at WoD. One is rather pretty with its blue and purple speckles and silver numbers. It reminds me of Easter candy.
4. I’m learning to live with fingerprints and smears on my Droid.
5. It’s [...]

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The Lady Doctor

By ~LS~ On December 30, 2009 · Add Comment · In Feminism and tagged Tagged With: Baton Rouge, Feminism, Gratitudes, Sexism

Over Thanksgiving I had a conversation with my mother-in-law about women doctors. She explained that she had to see a woman eye doctor because her regular doctor was unavailable and that this made her uncomfortable. I recognize that some people are uncomfortable with women doctors even today. Comfort with a doctor is an emotional thing, not something you can necessarily address rationally. I expect that with each generation this discomfort will lessen. Still, when I play the very old doctor riddle with my students in class, most can’t solve it. Here’s the riddle:

A man and his son were in a car and had an accident on the highway. The boy was critically injured and rushed to the hospital. Doctors are not allowed to work on their family. After seeing the boy in the emergency room, the doctor said, “I can’t work on this child. He’s my son!”

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Thanksgiving Gratitude

By ~LS~ On November 26, 2009 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Gratitudes, Holidays

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Personal lists

By ~LS~ On November 17, 2009 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Gratitudes, Threes, What I Did Today

I am behind on…

1. Grading. SO MUCH GRADING. And it’s not even the crunch time yet.

2. Cleaning. I never finished my 40 steps/40 days summer goal of cleaning my office. I have piles of crap all over the place and everything I dusted now has layers of dust again. Depressing.

3. Reading. My “to be read” pile is huge.

4. Health care. I need a dentist’s appointment and a dermatology appointment. I’ve needed a dentalappointment for months now.

5. lolcats. I’ve caught up on lolcats, goggies, lookalikes, and punditkitchen. I’m behind on Engrish and Failblog. Can’t catch up. At all. I’m trying, though, which shows my priorities are straight.

6. Dollhouse (thereby contributing to its cancellation).

Things coming up that scare me…

1. Final grades. (No brainer.)

2. Getting ready for Rome. So much to do!

3. The dentist. When I actually get there, I know she’s going [...]

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Gratitude for copy machines

By ~LS~ On November 13, 2009 · Add Comment · In Technology and tagged Tagged With: For Wordies, Gratitudes, Technoculture, Technology

A current facebook meme is to post a gratitude in your status. Today I am grateful for copy machines. I have to return comments on group projects to students today and I don’t have to rewrite the comments for each student. I can simply copy them on my magical combo printer/fax machine/copier/scanner. This morning I remembered the days where this sort of task was impossible.

I remember carbon paper, ditto machines, and mimeographs. I remember members of the academic generation before mine telling me that they had to type their dissertations on carbon paper and store copies in the freezer to ensure they would survive a fire. Editing and revising under those circumstances were herculean. Carbon paper gave us the origin of the phrase carbon copy. Does anyone use that term anymore?

I remember my life as a work-study student where making copies was the bulk of the [...]

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Still More Threes

By ~LS~ On October 4, 2009 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Gratitudes, Threes

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