I keep well-hydrated.

There was a beetle on the shower curtain this morning, so I flicked the curtain, and the beetle fell into the tub. I turned on the water and then splashed some more to lead it to the drain. I entered the tub from the end rather than the side to avoid the insect and then used my foot to push water toward it until it finally fell down the drain, finally, though it too many attempts. I kept climbing from to the metal rim, and it would fall down again. Climb, fall, climb, until, even with my near-sighted eyes, I could tell that it would not reemerge.

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Bad Wolf – a little Doctor review

I’m getting behind on my grading.

Correction: I got behind. I’ll get caught up … soon. But Friday will be another day of Brecht.

As I say, if it ain’t Brecht, don’t fix it.

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Get “Lost”

It’s not that I’m here to provide spoilers, but I just have to say, “Duh” regarding the Claire & Jack relationship ‘revealed’ tonight. It was hinted at so strongly in season 2, episode 20 (in which two characters die and another shoots himself), when Jack’s father travels with Ana Lucia in the rain to a house that tonight was just confirmation.

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So say the film reviewers: “Casting spells is wrong!”

This evening I finished Frances Hodgeson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, which I first read back in the third grade. There was already an assumed gender divide in the children’s fiction at the school library. Once we got beyond Peter Rabbit and Charlotte’s Web animal stories were for boys, unless they dealt with horses, and then they might be for girls, too. Dogs, though? Boys. While Beverly Clearly could be read by boys and girls, Judy Blume was for girls (Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and Superfudge excluded). Boys got Choose Your Own Adventure. The Hardy Boys were for boys, Nancy Drew for girls, and so on.

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Insects and the Subjunctive

Sitting in my office this morning before heading off to teach I took a detour to YouTube for a search of and for a few old videos.

Let me channel a Valley Girl for just a second: Oh. My. Gawd.

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Sunday evening: above freezing

“Winter Scene”

Perched on his bough, a monster raven makes
the one strong note etched black upon the snow.
But no! a stooping stout old goody takes
her painful way, mumbling, stumbling and slow.
What a wind-reddened nose, for gracious sakes!
Her left arm in her apron — frost hurts so!–
in her right hand a garnished platter shakes,
and how that pickled herring makes a show!

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Brief Saturday post

Movie: 300. Short evaluation – “Gay movie plays it straight.”

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You can never have too much coffee …

Thursday evening: more Metallica listened to, some Captain America (vol. 5) read … and then, sleep.

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Madison: Most walkable city …

Here I’ll just copy the whole Associated Press article as I found itat CNN.

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Wednesday in Review: Battenberg, Lunch & Coffee

I awoke this morning almost ten minutes before my alarm was to go off. The 2nd half of season 1 of “Türkisch für Anfänger” had finished encoding overnight. I checked my email, showered, packed my things, had a glass of soy milk, and rushed out to catch the 7:52 #38 to campus (Charter & Linden). I got to read a chapter or two of The Secret Garden on the ride; I only had to wait until the capitol to get a seat.

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