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revdorothyl at 03:47pm on 27/08/2008 under movie reviews
revdorothyl at 03:47pm on 27/08/2008 under movie reviewsWell, I actually flew back from Milwaukee on Monday night, but yesterday was completely given to catching up at work and hurried last-minute preparation for teaching a class that I was almost 100% certain was going to be cancelled for low enrollment!
But my trip to and from Wisconsin for my parents' 50th wedding anniversary went smoothly, as did my visit with my vegetarian sister (she was putting me up at her house in Milwaukee, because my brother has started smoking at my parents' house in Waukesha, after years of being a non-smoker) and the conversations with old family friends and relatives who'd gathered for the event.
( culinary adventures in Wisconsin )
( a tribute to Milwaukee's lakeshore parks )
Sister also made sure to request season 1 of "Torchwood" from her public library for me to watch while visiting (they'd split it into three sets of discs, and we couldn't get the middle set, so I've now seen the first five and last five episodes of "Torchwood" season one, and am hoping very much that BBC America decides to show some re-runs one of these days, now that I finally get that channel), as well as season 2 of the Canadian series "Slings and Arrows" (Paul Gross butting heads with Geraint Wyn Davies as the recalcitrant star of his reluctant staging of "MacBeth"), PLUS some of the best Bollywood films the downtown library branch had to offer on DVD.
( loving the Bollywood )
Now, I'm getting ready to leave the office for campus, to pick up the new edition of my New Testament textbook (the bookstore hadn't ordered any texts for my course last Spring, and so now there's a new edition and none of the page numbers in my syllabus or handouts will be correct, and the students won't be able to start their first week's reading assignments until after it's due to be completed) and prepare for the six students who've signed up for my two-evening-a-week section of Intro to NT.
I sound sour about the textbook mix-up and the small enrollment, I know, but I'm actually thrilled that I get to teach a course again this semester, when I'd been sure they'd cancel on me again for having too low an enrollment to cover my (admittedly paltry) salary.
But my trip to and from Wisconsin for my parents' 50th wedding anniversary went smoothly, as did my visit with my vegetarian sister (she was putting me up at her house in Milwaukee, because my brother has started smoking at my parents' house in Waukesha, after years of being a non-smoker) and the conversations with old family friends and relatives who'd gathered for the event.
( culinary adventures in Wisconsin )
( a tribute to Milwaukee's lakeshore parks )
Sister also made sure to request season 1 of "Torchwood" from her public library for me to watch while visiting (they'd split it into three sets of discs, and we couldn't get the middle set, so I've now seen the first five and last five episodes of "Torchwood" season one, and am hoping very much that BBC America decides to show some re-runs one of these days, now that I finally get that channel), as well as season 2 of the Canadian series "Slings and Arrows" (Paul Gross butting heads with Geraint Wyn Davies as the recalcitrant star of his reluctant staging of "MacBeth"), PLUS some of the best Bollywood films the downtown library branch had to offer on DVD.
( loving the Bollywood )
Now, I'm getting ready to leave the office for campus, to pick up the new edition of my New Testament textbook (the bookstore hadn't ordered any texts for my course last Spring, and so now there's a new edition and none of the page numbers in my syllabus or handouts will be correct, and the students won't be able to start their first week's reading assignments until after it's due to be completed) and prepare for the six students who've signed up for my two-evening-a-week section of Intro to NT.
I sound sour about the textbook mix-up and the small enrollment, I know, but I'm actually thrilled that I get to teach a course again this semester, when I'd been sure they'd cancel on me again for having too low an enrollment to cover my (admittedly paltry) salary.
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