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Forget Me Not!
Yep, I gotta take off, eh? It's a beauty way to go. Just for a few days. I am super-busy with (a) essay, (b) exam, (c) moving back home for the summer, and (d) graduation -- just the little graduation, mind -- pass … -
Colourful garden
Check out my gorgeous garden! Hubby was kind enough to send some pics to console me while I write Essay #2 and prepare for my exam on Saturday. He has such a green thumb! Edit: Yep, this is the … -
Fascinating Art
I've been meaning to share the delightful art of this Canadian artist with anyone who hasn't been lucky enough to encounter him yet. Rob Gonsalves is an award-winning master of trompe l'oeil art... the more you look… -
If Handicap13 is doing it...
it's gotta be fun. First Reaction SurveyTake This Survey at Quizopolis.com Relationshipsfinally goodYour Last Exscary nuff saidPoweroutFoodmust. eat. less.Drugsjust say noThe Presidentsadness, fearWarsee abo… -
I'm a sweetie!
Last night I called my husband (we live two hours' drive apart during school) and reminisced about when we met. I was only 15 years old when I was introduced to 16-year-old Dave at a friend's party. There on the pho… -
Posting an essay...
Thanks so much for your congratulations (I'm still tickled pink -- see below if you don't know why!), and for asking to see my silly writing, but I have never posted an essay because of my concerns that it would then b… -
Petruchiarchy, Katechized!
Those odd words above refer to the main characters inShakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, good old Kate and Petruccio, about whom Iwrote an essay last week. I am going to brag like mad about a milestonethat has me fe… -
Raindrops on Windowpane
Skintype posted a photo of rain on a window which reminded me of this picture of my own, taken while driving along the old Welland Canal near my ancestral home in southern Ontario. Thought I'd share. -
Making Connections
Bah! I have a difficult essay deadline approaching and not enough time to post, nor time to read all the great Xangaposters I am subscribed to. Here, though, is one point that I remembered while reading my comments.… -
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, 1919-2000
So many things have been said about this former prime minister of Canada. I will not morph into an encyclopedia and bore you with a recitation.I can say that I consider him to have been an eloquent statesman, a just and … -
Further to Abraham Lincoln...
... just found this item at the Encyclopedia Britannica: "On this day in 1862, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, which provided 160 acres of public land virtually free of charge to those who h… -
Valuable human beings
Inspirational too. I like how people mentioned significant figures from different walks of life. There oughta be a composer in amongst these too, but somebody couldn't decide which one. Good old Fred Rogers. … -
The Shrew, Tamed
No, I don't mean this little cutie, he's pretty tame already, seems to me: I mean Shakespeare's full-blooded, hot-tempered handful of woman, Kate from The Taming of the Shrew. Many people feel outraged when they se… -
Eureka!
It’s eerie to find a description, in a stranger’s writing, that sounds so much like you that it’s as if they’ve been spying on you. Ooo! I’ve been looking around for resources to help mature students with writing. I… -
Happy Mom on Mother's Day
Here she is with my Pa at dinner on Sunday. They are such sweeties! Now if somebody would please cure arthritis!? -
8 Pointers to Success as a Mature Student: #8
The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. After all, what laws can be laid dow… -
Happy Mother's Day!
Species tulips from my garden. Enjoy! -
8 Pointers to Success as a Mature Student: #7
7. Start projects instantly! The day an assignment is received is the ideal day to spend a couple of hours digging into it. First, you will reduce your anxiety about it by taking its measure right away. You won… -
8 Pointers to Success as a Mature Student: #6
6. Get a laptop. "Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools." -- Marshall McLuhan I found that it was hard to take effective notes in class while also a… -
8 Pointers to Success as a Mature Student: #5
5. Party like it’s 1999. Er… Participate! Yeah, that’s what I mean. When I showed up, all nervous and self-conscious, at my first seminar, it was crammed with students precisely half my age. I worried about how o… -
8 Pointers to Success as a Mature Student: #4
4. Write in your textbooks. What??? Gasp! Shock! I know – we are all taught to revere books and treat them like holy objects. Put this attitude firmly to one side, and break out the many-coloured highlight… -
Tulips from my garden this afternooon
They are Angelique, my favourite. Almost as lovely in their own delicate way as peonies or roses. -
8 Pointers to Success as a Mature Student: #3
3. Visit your professor often. For one thing, profs are usually a little closer to your age and may have some sympathy for your challenges! But over and above moral support and encouragement, they hold the keys t… -
8 Pointers to Success as a Mature Student: #2
2. Find safety in your own numbers. You’ll see that there are others out there, older students, looking pretty self-assured, headed off to classes or the library. Grab them and buy coffee and donuts for them. Whi… -
8 Pointers to Success as a Mature Student
Happy new week, everyone! Conferences and conventions are great places to meet people who share your interests. All weekend at the one I attended, I felt surrounded by people who were thinking about medieval history… -
Enjoy your weekend, everybody!
Well, all my thoughts of what to write here next have been exploded by the opportunity to attend the Kalamazoo Medieval Studies Conference this weekend. You know you're getting old when the opportunity to attend con… -
My Retro 18th Birthday Blog: August 29, 1982
I’m going to make an entry soon about how to cope with the writing component of university or college coursework, if you’ve been away from school for a long time. I got plenty of advice on that last September when I w… -
Kittens Do Zeppelin
Click here for the amusing experience of watching two kittens enact Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song." Aaaaeeeeeeaaaaaaaaa-aaah! Aaaaeeeeeeaaaaaaaaa-aaah! -
University Education
Okay, so I learned more than eight things in school last year. In fact, the year was a great eye-opener in so many ways, only some of them on the official curriculum. For instance, I learned that “kids these days” s… -
Well, it's nice to know in advance ;-)
Your Deadly Sins Pride: 40% Greed: 20% Sloth: 20% Wrath: 20% Envy: 0% Gluttony: 0% Lust: 0% Chance You'll Go to Hell: 14% You will die of apoplexy when a chic restaurant h… -
8 Interesting Things I Learned in School This Year
Well, I am amazed that anybody at all commented on my last school-related entry! Kudos to Fishyxxx for taking the plunge. [Edit: Holy moly! pwunderthebus read that entry too! ] 8. In Harper’s Magazine, March 2006, Bil… -
8 Interesting Things I Learned in School This Year
7. In rhetorical analysis class (sounds scary, eh?), I learned about “terministic screens.” A screen is a group of words and images intended to help us make sense of the world. These are called screens because they … -
Kate and I
I found this face-comparing website on handicap13's site -- it will show celebrities who look like you. Can't complain! I sent my profile photo and it sent back: Always have loved Kate Hepburn.
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