So, the Duchess tagged me. Here goes. I don't have six blogging friends, so I have failed on that point already. Also, I don't really think I have that many odd quirks (many faults, but those aren't the same as quirks). Guess I'll let the readers judge.
1. Link the person who tagged you: The Duchess
2. Mention rules on your blog.
3. Tell about six of your quirks.
4. Tag six fellow bloggers to do the same.
5. Comment on their blogs to let them know or leave a list of names at the bottom of the post.
Auntie K's a Quirky Gal?
1. She walks barefoot in her own home only extremely rarely. She never walks barefoot in another person's home. For some reason, being barefoot in her office doesn't bother her nearly as much as the other scenarios.
2. She refuses to use a bookmark. They just fall out anyway.
3. She is very careful to state her complete order up front at the Wendy's drive-through window, so the cashier doesn't have to ask a bunch of unnecessary questions. The script is: "Yes, I'd like a #1 combo medium, with no lettuce, onions, or pickles...and a Diet Coke." (The cashier usually responds with "what size?")
4. She can't talk on the telephone with the receiver against her right ear.
5. She has four alarm clocks, and usually sets at least two of them for different times anywhere from 4 5o 18 minutes before she actually intends to get out of bed.
6. She can't leave the house without an adequate supply of Puffs Plus, Vaseline Lip Therapy, and Curel.
Is the West Family game to participate? You could list two quirks for each adult and one each for each child to-date.
If M. would blog, and I think she should , she could participate. But then, if M. blogged maybe I wouldn't have any more fun surprises of finding a personal letter in the post box.
PS and background for post title: I hit publish post and then viewed the post and was surprised to see the library's chat widget showing on the blog next to my post. Then I realized I had inadvertently posted to the library blog instead of to this blog.
The library blog showed up first in my list of blogs because it was updated more recently than this blog. What a horror that would have been! When I do post to the library blog, I don't do it under my blogger account anyway, so I think I need to gracefully remove myself from the library blog before I have a personal debacle on my hands. I can just see myself blogging, on the wrong blog, about some handsome man I met at work or any of the other trivial and embarrassing things I reveal here. Talk about a bad dream!
Friday, November 14, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Who Said That's a Bad Thing?
I get about 20 emails a day in my spam folder at work. Here was the subject line for one today:
"Now you don't have to spend your evenings alone reading books." You can guess about what the message went on to advertise.
Well, it happens that some of us happen to like spending our evenings alone reading books. So please keep your explicit emails to yourself!
"Now you don't have to spend your evenings alone reading books." You can guess about what the message went on to advertise.
Well, it happens that some of us happen to like spending our evenings alone reading books. So please keep your explicit emails to yourself!
Thursday, November 06, 2008
A Seminary Update
Several people have asked how seminary is going this year, so here's a brief update. Well, not so brief. After all, if it were brief, you'd wonder what happened to the real Auntie K and who the imposter blogger is.
Overall, I think it's going well. I have a larger class, usually about 18 students, but I think they're generally more attentive than last year's class of 12. Unfortunately, as the year has progressed, the students have become more distracted and less likely to answer questions. Some of the girls like to talk to each other too much.
Sometimes the students come up with some really good ideas and ask good questions. At other times, I wonder if anything is sinking in at all. I do have to repeat myself much more often than I would have to do in a class of adults. Guess that's just part of the game, though it makes a small part of me glad I don't have teenagers of my own. Was I that inattentive at that age? Anyway, I digress.
I've assigned a few responsibilities to class members, like arranging devotionals and prayers, conducting class, and setting up the room on Sundays. That has helped a lot. If I get brave, I'll have them sign up to teach a lesson next semester. I'm not sure some of them will do it, however, since I really have to pull teeth to get a couple of the girls to give a devotional thought.
Another improvement is that we start generally on time now. Last year, I had one student who arrived on time and the rest of the class was consistently 10-15 minutes late. It was hard to keep momentum going in a lesson and very discouraging to boot. We have a couple of students who are always late now, but they come into class quietly, we all say hello to them, and they manage to catch up without too much interruption. I still don't get through lessons any faster than I did last year, and I'm not sure they're getting much of a sense of the overall picture of the New Testament, but I think this class spends more time talking about things not strictly lesson-related. I guess that's ok with me as long as they're mostly talking about something Gospel-related. Many of the students are eager to share "missionary moments" they have had at school, and we talk about that more days than not. Many of their school friends know they are LDS and it seems to come up in conversations a lot.
Between you, me and the blogosphere, I think I will probably ask to be released after this year. In a way I feel bad about that, because I really do enjoy the students and I'm reading and learning more about the scriptures than I would have otherwise, and I know that in this area they generally keep teachers longer than two years.
On the other hand, I think I need some time back to try and get my life into some semblance of order. I'm not working enough on writing and "researching," I spend every Saturday I can just recovering from the week while the housework and such piles up and the roaches plot a complete overthrow of the apartment, and I'm a bit depressed by everything I have to do. AND, I'm gaining weight like there's no tomorrow, which I think is in part due to my haphazard ways of eating, sleeping, and exercising. Not that giving up seminary would solve all the above problems, but in theory it would give me more time to work on them. And it may help me break the usual habit of coming home from work, taking a nap, and then getting back up at 10 or 11 to work on lessons (or blog).
Thanks for asking!
Overall, I think it's going well. I have a larger class, usually about 18 students, but I think they're generally more attentive than last year's class of 12. Unfortunately, as the year has progressed, the students have become more distracted and less likely to answer questions. Some of the girls like to talk to each other too much.
Sometimes the students come up with some really good ideas and ask good questions. At other times, I wonder if anything is sinking in at all. I do have to repeat myself much more often than I would have to do in a class of adults. Guess that's just part of the game, though it makes a small part of me glad I don't have teenagers of my own. Was I that inattentive at that age? Anyway, I digress.
I've assigned a few responsibilities to class members, like arranging devotionals and prayers, conducting class, and setting up the room on Sundays. That has helped a lot. If I get brave, I'll have them sign up to teach a lesson next semester. I'm not sure some of them will do it, however, since I really have to pull teeth to get a couple of the girls to give a devotional thought.
Another improvement is that we start generally on time now. Last year, I had one student who arrived on time and the rest of the class was consistently 10-15 minutes late. It was hard to keep momentum going in a lesson and very discouraging to boot. We have a couple of students who are always late now, but they come into class quietly, we all say hello to them, and they manage to catch up without too much interruption. I still don't get through lessons any faster than I did last year, and I'm not sure they're getting much of a sense of the overall picture of the New Testament, but I think this class spends more time talking about things not strictly lesson-related. I guess that's ok with me as long as they're mostly talking about something Gospel-related. Many of the students are eager to share "missionary moments" they have had at school, and we talk about that more days than not. Many of their school friends know they are LDS and it seems to come up in conversations a lot.
Between you, me and the blogosphere, I think I will probably ask to be released after this year. In a way I feel bad about that, because I really do enjoy the students and I'm reading and learning more about the scriptures than I would have otherwise, and I know that in this area they generally keep teachers longer than two years.
On the other hand, I think I need some time back to try and get my life into some semblance of order. I'm not working enough on writing and "researching," I spend every Saturday I can just recovering from the week while the housework and such piles up and the roaches plot a complete overthrow of the apartment, and I'm a bit depressed by everything I have to do. AND, I'm gaining weight like there's no tomorrow, which I think is in part due to my haphazard ways of eating, sleeping, and exercising. Not that giving up seminary would solve all the above problems, but in theory it would give me more time to work on them. And it may help me break the usual habit of coming home from work, taking a nap, and then getting back up at 10 or 11 to work on lessons (or blog).
Thanks for asking!
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Go Litttle Brother!
Guess who's presenting at NCFR today in Little Rock (1:15 pm) on "An Evaluation of an Online Educational Tool for Romantic Relationships"?
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
What They Don't Put on the Label
A recent bout of unexplainable itching led me to switch to dye and perfume-free laundry products. I think the itching has abated a bit. There's a danger, however, that the manufacturers fail to mention on product labels.
A less than meticulous housekeeper, one who say takes laundry from the dryer and leaves it on top of the hamper for a few days, may be dismayed to come back and to not be able to determine, for lack of any "freshly laundered" scent, if the items are clean or dirty. I, of course, don't fall in the category of less than meticulous housekeepers, but I have a vivid imagination, and I can see how such a thing could easily happen to others.
So, if you plan to switch to perfume-free laundry products, just know that you've been warned!
A less than meticulous housekeeper, one who say takes laundry from the dryer and leaves it on top of the hamper for a few days, may be dismayed to come back and to not be able to determine, for lack of any "freshly laundered" scent, if the items are clean or dirty. I, of course, don't fall in the category of less than meticulous housekeepers, but I have a vivid imagination, and I can see how such a thing could easily happen to others.
So, if you plan to switch to perfume-free laundry products, just know that you've been warned!
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