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Oct. 9th, 2024 09:22 pmI probably don't need to be posting in this thing daily? Hopefully, if all goes well no reason why it shouldn't, I'll be gone next week. Visiting Mother for her birthday next week in Hilton Head Island, SC. And working Columbus Indigenous Peoples Day Holiday Weekend into the mix.
Back hurts, heating it up. Also digesting a bunch of pills, I just took - which appear lodged in the old esophagus. A fat lot of good the Magnesium Citrate and Vitamin D will do there.
Tried. Got maybe 5 and a half hours of sleep the night before. According to my watch it was 5 hours and 42 minutes. The device breaks it down into deep, core, and REM, with most of it falling under Core.
So, overall goal is to get to bed earlier tonight. Maybe by 10 at the latest?
Lack of sleep makes me irritable. As does boredom. And I tend to get myself into trouble on social media platforms when I'm bored. I've many to choose from now, so it's usually one of them? And people can be annoying when one is sleep deprived and bored. Well, they can be annoying anyhow, just more so, when one is sleep deprived and bored.
I should go to bed now, but can't - heart-burn and digestive issues. Have to wait a bit. Frigging internal plumbing is not being cooperative. My father used to complain about the plumbing and how they needed to root it all out - I think he was talking about his own.
***
On Facebook, someone introduced an "Atlantic" article in a misleading manner.
FB: In the Atlantic, a Professor discusses how his students told him that books will soon go the way of vinyl records.
Me: Well, considering Vinyl Records are making a come back, and being sold at B&N now. Also there are at least four book stores that have popped up in my area, with extensive children's literature sections. And various people are reading them on the trains...I'm not worried. Although I continue to be concerned about serious journalism and our educational system...
Read or skimmed the article? And honestly, I was right. It's not about what she said it was about. It's about...
Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books
( excerpt )
I think part of the difficulty is the Humanities Lit Professors insist on assigning the same books. Folks? Assign something other than 19th Century and 18th Century and early 20th Century literature.
Let's face it most high school and college kids are not going to understand The Great Gatsby, or get through Pride and Prejudice or Moby Dick. There are other novels you can assign. Such as "The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison" or "Kindred by Octavia Butler" or "Dubliner's by James Joyce" or "Neuromancer by William Gibson" or better yet Pattern Recognition.
When I was in college - I got a much broader spectrum. And if I were teaching literature? I'd pick from a slew of different writers, and centuries, decades.
My impromptu list of literary works:
( Read more... )
I never understood people who don't love books, or reading. I had to work hard to learn, and once I did, I devoured. I wonder sometimes if something comes easily to someone, and they don't have to earn it - they take it for granted and don't bother?
Also, I'd expand the above list to include foreign translated works and graphic novels. Along with YA.
Such as:
1. Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
2. Persepolis - Graphic Novel
3. 100 Years of Solitude by Gaberiel Garcia Marquez
4. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
5. Candide by Voltaire
6. Kafka on the Shore
and so on.
Off to bed.
Back hurts, heating it up. Also digesting a bunch of pills, I just took - which appear lodged in the old esophagus. A fat lot of good the Magnesium Citrate and Vitamin D will do there.
Tried. Got maybe 5 and a half hours of sleep the night before. According to my watch it was 5 hours and 42 minutes. The device breaks it down into deep, core, and REM, with most of it falling under Core.
So, overall goal is to get to bed earlier tonight. Maybe by 10 at the latest?
Lack of sleep makes me irritable. As does boredom. And I tend to get myself into trouble on social media platforms when I'm bored. I've many to choose from now, so it's usually one of them? And people can be annoying when one is sleep deprived and bored. Well, they can be annoying anyhow, just more so, when one is sleep deprived and bored.
I should go to bed now, but can't - heart-burn and digestive issues. Have to wait a bit. Frigging internal plumbing is not being cooperative. My father used to complain about the plumbing and how they needed to root it all out - I think he was talking about his own.
***
On Facebook, someone introduced an "Atlantic" article in a misleading manner.
FB: In the Atlantic, a Professor discusses how his students told him that books will soon go the way of vinyl records.
Me: Well, considering Vinyl Records are making a come back, and being sold at B&N now. Also there are at least four book stores that have popped up in my area, with extensive children's literature sections. And various people are reading them on the trains...I'm not worried. Although I continue to be concerned about serious journalism and our educational system...
Read or skimmed the article? And honestly, I was right. It's not about what she said it was about. It's about...
Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books
( excerpt )
I think part of the difficulty is the Humanities Lit Professors insist on assigning the same books. Folks? Assign something other than 19th Century and 18th Century and early 20th Century literature.
Let's face it most high school and college kids are not going to understand The Great Gatsby, or get through Pride and Prejudice or Moby Dick. There are other novels you can assign. Such as "The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison" or "Kindred by Octavia Butler" or "Dubliner's by James Joyce" or "Neuromancer by William Gibson" or better yet Pattern Recognition.
When I was in college - I got a much broader spectrum. And if I were teaching literature? I'd pick from a slew of different writers, and centuries, decades.
My impromptu list of literary works:
( Read more... )
I never understood people who don't love books, or reading. I had to work hard to learn, and once I did, I devoured. I wonder sometimes if something comes easily to someone, and they don't have to earn it - they take it for granted and don't bother?
Also, I'd expand the above list to include foreign translated works and graphic novels. Along with YA.
Such as:
1. Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
2. Persepolis - Graphic Novel
3. 100 Years of Solitude by Gaberiel Garcia Marquez
4. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
5. Candide by Voltaire
6. Kafka on the Shore
and so on.
Off to bed.