Sunday, December 12, 2004
One Post at a Time
Planning to cover cliché with my freshmen students this week, among other grammatical lessons. I had a hard time coming up with good examples, despite reading them in their essays regularly. Have I just blocked them out too successfully? Help me brainstorm some common triteness.
So far: "one day at a time", "it was a dark and stormy night", "at the edge of your seat"
Help?
Planning to cover cliché with my freshmen students this week, among other grammatical lessons. I had a hard time coming up with good examples, despite reading them in their essays regularly. Have I just blocked them out too successfully? Help me brainstorm some common triteness.
So far: "one day at a time", "it was a dark and stormy night", "at the edge of your seat"
Help?
A COMPLETE DAY
A Sunday can be full, as today was. Love in the morning, Joyce before noon, conversation with colleagues at brunch, Choose Your Own Adventure nostalgia, AC Milan televised (Crespo scored), C-Span coverage of a talk by Sam Tanenhaus (head editor of the NYTimes Book Review) and then of Timothy Garton Ash opining on trans-atlanticism quiet brilliantly and enlighteningly, lesson planning for freshmen including James Baldwin and Rilke (letters week of non-ficiton unit), and then championship college soccer on ESPN. Sports, politics, culture, literature, philosophy, work, pleasure, and still a few hours to go.
A Sunday can be full, as today was. Love in the morning, Joyce before noon, conversation with colleagues at brunch, Choose Your Own Adventure nostalgia, AC Milan televised (Crespo scored), C-Span coverage of a talk by Sam Tanenhaus (head editor of the NYTimes Book Review) and then of Timothy Garton Ash opining on trans-atlanticism quiet brilliantly and enlighteningly, lesson planning for freshmen including James Baldwin and Rilke (letters week of non-ficiton unit), and then championship college soccer on ESPN. Sports, politics, culture, literature, philosophy, work, pleasure, and still a few hours to go.
