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Monday, 04/23/07: Project 365: #176

Monday, 04/23/07: Project 365: #176 
Originally uploaded by cathie.

Yes - for a brief couple of weeks or months? I became enchanted with Second Life... I built myself an avatar and proceeded to have interesting encounters, usually with male avatars who just wanted to get naked. Well thats not entirely true - I had some interesting conversations with other avatars and I had some fun dressing up and buying "skins" etc for my avatar....but after a while I decided it was all just too silly and not really me---I knew I would never want to actually build or design my own stuff, I'm just not all that entrepreneurial....it was interesting though.

It's Mii! (my Wii icon): Project 365 #70

Taken on Monday, January 8, 2007

  Apart from my mole being on the wrong side I actually kind of look like this....

Interesting link

about the reception of Middlemarch

Looks interesting

web 2.o  found via: blogging about blogs, which I got to via yahoo.

Interesting site

Antiquity in Contemporary German Lit

interesting link to an e-journal

lore looks interesting

Some quick links

nobody here

interesting link via

chalkface

which I came to via a flickr group: educational bloggers: cool stuff, but right now I swamped...it really does seem to me that I find more stuff interestinig when I have no time to really pursue things...wonder why that is!

Singing chewing-gum and Fingerspitzengefuehl!

Getting ready for the school year to begin. I've been having fun with our new course web system MOODLE, which seems very easy to use. Today we're off on our adventure to Ann Arbor's Trader Joe's, which will be fun.

Last night we watched "Virgin Suicides", which I really liked. Sofia Coppola is great! After having read Eugenides newer book "Middlesex" I was surprised at how similar in style/narration this movie seemed. Plus the Michigan nostalgia made it even more interesting to someone who just recently moved here. I also really liked the music, even the little video at the end, which featured "singing chewing gum". (I think the group is called "Air").

Just heard NPR's take onthe German Laurel and Hardy movie...it just makes my morning hearing to Scott Simon totally wrangling a German word like "Fingerspitzengefuehl" (=literally finger tip sensitivity, i.e. a sensitive, light touch vis a vis any "touchy" issue)!