Stuff and things

[lunabee34]

1. I had my post-tenure review today over Zoom. It went well. I'm crossing my fingers for the same positive reception to my application for full professor in the fall.

2.
Friday: Howliday Inn chapter 6; draw a picture of all the dogs crowding around Chester and Harold. Write--what are Max and Georgette planning to do?

Monday: Howliday Inn chapter 7; draw a picture of Harold by Chester's empty cage; write--what does Harrison say happened to Chester?

Fiona's teacher is giving them more robust online work now, so she's doing twenty minutes a day on two sites, one for reading and one for math. She's also being given an art assignment and a writing assignment by her teacher now.

Tuesday: Howliday Inn chapter 8; draw a picture of the food bowl message; write--how does Harold's investigation go?

3. We saw a box turtle in the ditch. Yay!!

4. John Oliver achieved his epic painting of rat pornography. The acquisition certainly brought joy to our household. :)

5.

Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings by Juana Inés de la Cruz

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


I read this in an American Women's Lit class as an undergrad. I really enjoyed the intro about Sor Juana's life and her prose apologia of women as intellectual beings (she was a pretty brave badass in championing the equal intellectual capabilities of women and their God-given right to exercise them). I find her play about the conversion of the native people to be interesting; she highlights the similarities between their religion and Christianity. I also like some of her shorter poems, especially the ones in which she is being funny or poking fun. Her magnum opus, though, is a slog; it's an interminable poem that showcases her knowledge of science and classical literature, and it is extremely boring.



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A Thousand Beginnings and Endings by Ellen Oh

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I really enjoyed this; it's a collection of retellings of Asian fairytales, and some of them are retold in really fascinating ways (all the traditional remix options here: new setting, new time period, new tone, new POV, missing scene). It's written for a YA audience, but with the exception of two stories, I don't think it reads like a YA collection. I particularly enjoy the stories that contain science fiction elements.



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Comments

[princessofgeeks]

Good luck with your administrative trek through promotion land!

[lunabee34]

Thank you. I figure I have a solid chance, but I also won't be surprised if I get denied this first go round. The great thing is that I can apply every year until I die with no penalty, so LOL.

[princessofgeeks]

Bonus!

Also I have a friend who just got tapped to be a department chair. I am thinking of sending him a Burger King crown.

[lunabee34]

Ha! Perfect.

That is something in which I have zero interest at this point in my career. Maybe later when I don't have kids at home anymore.

[zulu]

Crossing fingers for the professorship!

[lunabee34]

Thank you!

[tabaqui]

Box turtles are delightful. :D

[lunabee34]

They really are. I am having so much fun keeping my eyes peeled for all the animals wandering about the neighborhood.

[tabaqui]

When we were little, living out in the country, if we saw a turtle, we'd pick it up and paint our initials on it in fingernail polish, in the hopes we'd see them again. I don't think we ever did - i'm sure the polish wore off in a month or so, heh.

[lunabee34]

I love it! I would never have thought to do that. :)

We had a great big gopher turtle on the property for years, and we'd all go see him when he poked his nose out of his hole. It was when I was very young, so I'm sure that he wasn't as big as I remember,but I remember him being big enough to ride on. LOL

[tabaqui]

Heee!
What fun. :D

[musesfool]

Good luck!

[lunabee34]

Thank you!

[kass]

Oh fingers crossed for full professor application!

Also, go you for surviving more homeschooling. My goodness I look forward to looking back on this ridiculous year.

[lunabee34]

Thank you on both counts.

You and me both; I am ready for this experience to be something we all got through to the other side. *hugs*

[umadoshi]

I'm glad your review went well! *^^*

[lunabee34]

Thank you!

It's really more of a "hey, did you quit doing anything since you got tenure" conversation than anything else, and since I've only *increased* everything in all categories since then, it was a pretty short conversation. LOL

[tamsin]

I'm happy to hear that your review went well! Crossing my fingers for professorship.

Is A Thousand Beginnings and Endings enjoyable if one doesn't know a lot of asian fairytales?

[lunabee34]

Thank you thank you!

And yes! I didn't know any of the fairy tales before reading. At the end of each retelling is the original myth for people who aren't familiar with it.

[china_shop]

Good luck! And yay 🐢!

4. John Oliver achieved his epic painting of rat pornography. The acquisition certainly brought joy to our household. :)

He did!! Hee! The world is so surreal sometimes.

[lunabee34]

Thank you thank you!

It was such a surreal little happy moment. LOL Also, all those paintings of clothes. That artist is really good, but why all the clothes? I loved his psychoanalysis of that.

[spikedluv]

\o/ I'm glad your review went well! Good luck with the application.

[lunabee34]

Thank you, my friend!

[amejisuto]

Glad your reveiew went well sweetie! I hope you get the position you want come fall!

[lunabee34]

Me too! (Although I won't know until April; you apply in fall and get the verdict in April)

Thank you, sweetie.

[mordorbot]

GOOD LUCK! MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!

[lunabee34]

Thank you!

[nyctanthes]

Glad to hear post-tenure review went well! And the book of Asian myths sounds good. I might acquire for my daughter, if it's labeled YA.

[lunabee34]

I don't know how it's labelled exactly, but according to their bios at the end, most of the contributors are YA authors, and there's no cussing or sex or really overt violence (although death is a theme for some of the stories).

And thank you!

[nyctanthes]

Heh, well I am a prolific curser, even in front of my children, so it would be hypocritical to worry about language. And there's a lot of implied violence and overt death in YA. I think there always has been? But my daughter definitely has firm reading (and TV watching) boundaries when it comes to sex. Sometimes she'll ask about something I'm reading or watching and looks interested. I inform her, "It might be ok for you, but it mentions sex." So far, her answer is to scurry away.

So far!

[lunabee34]

Yeah, we curse in front of our kids, too. LOL I mean, Emma's 17 so it doesn't really matter (to me), but I try to always caveat to Fiona that these are grownup words that she can't say.

There are a couple of places where it's implied that sex is had, but nothing graphic at all or even remotely sexual is mentioned.

[kat_lair]

Whoo, well done for a positive review! The US tenure system is always so weird for me though.

[lunabee34]

Thank you!

Oh, don't worry. It's weird for us, too. LOL

[lyr]

1) Fingers crossed for you!
3) Yay!
4) Ours, too. It's the little things that keep one going.

[lunabee34]

Thank you thank you!

I was surprised by how much joy him finding that painting gives me. LOL

[corvidology]

Good luck with the promotion!

[lunabee34]

Thank you!