hopefully something rhetorical

Well, today was a yucky day. I have the crud and can’t talk very well, which doesn’t make teahign easy, so I canceled my class. I always feel guilty when I do that, but sometimes it just can’t be helped.

The something cool part comes in because I found a genre sighting. I was look on Houlihan’s website, because they are building one here and I was wondering when I could get a spinach dip fix, and their website is totally a genre shift. It is the first website I have ever seen that actually scrolls horizontally instead of vertically, which is a pretty interesting shift in website culture. You should check it out here

I have also been reading Christine Kane’s blog again. She has an interesting new post up about Vision Boards (check it out here. I think that I am going to take some time this weekend to try to create one for myself.

And, on the last note, I am reading a very interesting book. Reading is my new goal for this year. I am trying to make more time for reading again. I am reading Children of Men by PD James, an author that I didn’t think was very cool until I saw the movie this last weekend, which most people know that I don’t normally do (see the movie first that is). But, I didn’t think that I was going to read the book until I saw the movie, which I am figuring out is very different from the book.

The interesting part about the book is that it is encompassing a lot of my opinions about the education system and the children that I am teaching right now. Very early on in the novel, she explains the phenomenon surrounding the last generation of children that were born. “If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act like devils.” She goes on to explain on the rest of the page a scene very much like the one I consistently face in my classroom, where students don’t see the need in what they are learning. And, this book was written in 1992 – almost 15 years ago now. It made me wonder if what I face in the classroom has always been there, or if these new god-like children are evolving to be more and more evil.

That is enough randomness for one day…serves you right to read writing from someone on cold medication.