2010-07-25
i turned it in!
last essay done! now all i have is the timed writing final. not stressed about that as i have no idea the topic. i have no control so why stress. if i get a C or better on this last essay, i will REALLY not stress. in the end, it wasn't bad. i still rail against the standard and unbelievably boring format. but my writing is better. i have slowed down and started to stress less about reviewing my work.
i think one of my struggles in life is this sense that i need to do better by society. that i can't just sit here and suck up oxygen. i have to give back. by that i don't mean just volunteering or something. i mean that i want to make society better in everything i do. having learned recently how much energy americans use, more than anyone else in the world, i now feel guilty for having my air conditioner set at 74. if i want to throw out an aluminum can instead of bringing it home to recycle, i feel HORRIBLY guilty! even the papers from my dry cleaning (which i limit as much as possible) i am fanatical about recycling.
i am thinking seriously about changing my name. what do you think of Heather A Black vs Heather A Smith? Nurse Smith? Nurse Black? i bet they will call me nurse heather.
i have written about the texas schools on a number of occasions. i fear they are going the way of the CA schools. the CA schools were going in the right direction there, for a while. when they mandated 20-1 (20 kids to one teacher) it was a huge improvement. but they have abandoned that. christine will have like 35 kids in her class this fall. anyhow, texas struggles with our prisons too. i read grits for breakfast, a texas legal blog which tracks the prison situation and generally all things legal. the author references CA a decent amount there too. he recently posted an entry called education-vs-prisons which included the following graph:
pretty scary, eh?
now that summer school is done i will be:
-using my one-month unlimited yoga coupon at eastside yoga
-baking my little heart out
-studying german using the rosetta stone software (i figure my best chance at finding a job in europe is in germany, so i had better conquer the language, oh, and i am dating a german guy, whose mother doesn't speak any english and i really like her a lot)
-offering myself to anyone that needs something super organized
-dotting my Is and crossing my Ts before school starts
-varnishing the cats!
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2010-07-25
Robin Goodfellow wrote:
Emma minored in German in undergrad and did some legal studies in Augsburg I think. German works better for me than Spanish, but I still butcher the language. When she went to Law School she had the same issues with how schooling is done. They did not want creativity in Law School, only rote memorization.
Enjoy the break, Yoga out the stress.... and when varnishing cats, I suggest leather gloves. They tend to be unforgiving with the claws and do not suffer humans to live easily o
_________________ i lived in germany for 4 years, so i have a basis. but i want to be fluent in at least one other language.
2010-07-25
Katie wrote:
Varnishing the cats?
___________ something patrick and i would say when we couldn't think of anything to do.
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