This week marks the last week of my vacation. Sadly I didn’t accomplish much of anything,
but I’m hoping to be more productive in the coming weeks, partially due to the
fact that I should have more actual work to do.
I’m excited to start my final two courses: Special Topics in English
Teaching and Teaching Writing in the 21st Century. I’m excited partially because one of my
classes is taught by the same professor I took Digital Literacies with. Should be a good last hurrah before I start
my internship next fall.
In other
news, I got new glasses yesterday! I
have had the same red pair since 2006, with no change in prescription, so I
thought it was finally time to change it up.
Plus I’ve been squinting even with my glasses on lately, so for my own
sake I didn’t want to have any more headaches from strain. It was difficult to choose a pair of glasses
because I’ve been so used to my old pair and we’ve been through a lot together,
so I was a little unwilling to change at first.
But with a little help from the nice eye guy and my wonderful husband’s
opinion, I decided on a completely different style and I love them! I will miss my signature red, but hopefully
these will be just as good, seeing as I stuck with the pop of color. Here’s to new beginnings and a new style!
This week I
will also be attempting my first online chat sessions. The New England Bloggers Network will be
hosting a blog chat tomorrow night through Twitter which I will be
participating in. Also through Twitter,
there will be a “Digital Learning” chat from the National Council of Teachers
of English, (NCTE), this Sunday night at 8pm if any of my teacher friends want
to join me in that one. This is my first
attempt to participate in one of these digital chats, so wish me luck. Hopefully it will help me better understand
that type of community in the event I’d like to participate more openly in the
future.
For my TV
menu this week Castle returns as well
as How I Met Your Mother, so I’m
looking forward to getting caught up with those episodes which aired yesterday,
(as some of you already know, I do not have cable, so I watch everything the
day after through Hulu and Netflix through my Roku box). Also, premiering tonight is the new season of
Face-Off, which is a show on the SyFy
network about make-up and special effects artists competing for a contract and
cash prize. They are already in their 6th
season and it’s extremely interesting to see what they come up with for various
themes and characters.
Keeping
with my Victorian Era kick, I’ve been thoroughly invested in The Tudors series
on Netflix, (I’m already on season four…after about a week, maybe?). Even though you know what’s going to happen
to some extent, it’s still a very well done series, so I’m interested to see
how they ended it. Since I’ve been
watching Reign as well, this story
line ties directly into it, being that Mary, Queen of Scots is related to the
Tudors line of succession, (Margaret Tudor, sister to King Henry VIII is her
grandmother). I was thinking about
starting The Borgias series after I
finish with The Tudors, so let me
know what you think in the comments.
That’s it
for this week! I can’t post a review of
The Bachelor from this week yet because I haven’t seen it, but I will Thursday,
(maybe), if it still seems relevant. As
for the rest of this week, it’s pretty much wide open. My sister-in-law’s due date is this coming
Saturday, so I could be an aunt as early as this weekend! Fingers crossedJ
I’m hoping we can visit, but we’ll see what happens. Until next time, I remain your faithful
correspondent.
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