We were supposed to go to my MIL's for the first seder, but now Gary's going to pick up food from her and I guess we do a Zoom seder.

Boo colds! I did multiple covid tests and I think I just had a mild allergy to east coast spring, and even that little bit was enough to remind me I hate being sick and have not missed it these past two years!

I am on my way to a soccer game but it is collllld out!

Enjoy the movie t!

Msbelle, $500 still sucks though. Sorry.

I am glad Toddson is being looked after, but it is scary as a singleton who is aging.

Man, I was having this conversation with one of my freshman advisees recently, about how figuring out what style writing the professor is looking for can be half the battle, and there is no good way to know! Sucks.

There is a way! It is called a rubric! It is called Instructional Design. Although I would not be lying if I said that my strength as a student was figuring out which professors liked word vomit and which professors like good citations! But it is my job helping professors figure this out.

ETA: you can’t take away subjectivity, but it you see someone give more weight to “original thought” than proper citation, at least you can make a guess.

...it is scary as a singleton who is aging.

Yeah.

There is a way! It is called a rubric! It is called Instructional Design. Although I would not be lying if I said that my strength as a student was figuring out which professors liked word vomit and which professors like good citations! But it is my job helping professors figure this out.

Honestly, the biggest thing I learned for College Writing was to shove my paragraphs together. I wasn't actually writing any more complex thoughts! But it looked more like College Writing, so OK.

It was an excellent movie and everyone should see it as soon as possible

Th biggest thing I learned was to use quotation marks around my colloquialisms. Remember- this was the 90’s. But I wrote a whole paper that was lauded about how Sei Shonagon who wrote The Pillow Book was a “bitch”. And then I deconstructed “bitch” and got an A. And the rest of my life has not gone that smoothly so I would like to return to writing papers.

It was an excellent movie and everyone should see it as soon as possible

Agreed!!!

There was a marketing prof at my business school that was known for grading harshly and ruining everyone’s GPA because he would mark down for every grammatical error or misspelling and I guess they added up. I went into the class thinking I would do badly because “marketing” does not seem like something I would have any natural flair for, and I don’t except that actually includes distribution and logistics which I kind if a good at but that’s neither here nor there. For the class, I was just very careful about proofreading and my whole team did very well. And now I work for a marketing arm of a global company and would also like to return to writing papers. I guess all those power point decks are kind of the same thing, but I never did them in school because I am too old for that and so are all my degrees. I really do feel kind of overdue for going back to school one more time but I can’t figure out a way to make that practical right now. I should take Jess’s experience as a reality check on that urge, maybe.

I want to talk about the movie but I also really enjoyed how much it kept taking me by surprise so I kind of don’t want to talk about it until everyone sees it