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1. Yesterday Ithaca was buried by snow -- okay, only 8-10 inches down in the lake valley, but still. That's a fair bit of snow. I spent the hour from 4pm to 5pm shoveling the driveway and hacking my way through a car's width of snowplow leavings to the actual street, plus doing a touchup of the sidewalks in front of my house. (Theoretically our landlords shovel for us, but since they live in Locke, I figured they would not be arriving yesterday and in the interest of, you know, being able to get out of the house, I did the job for them.)
It was still snowing at that time, and the roads looked iffy at best, so I decided to wait on the shopping trip until today. Which turns out to have been a good choice.
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2. Borders, as you may know, is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. As part of this, they're closing about 30% of their physical stores. Which includes the one in Ithaca. This means massive blowout closing sales.
I used the two gift debit cards my Uncle Charles and Aunt Ji-lan got me for Xmas and my birthday, and bought a bunch of classical music pretty damn cheap. :-) I'd been thinking about DVDs, but those sections had already been picked over pretty thoroughly -- I was not interested in 98% of what was left, and the remaining 2% wasn't stuff I like enough to pay money for.
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3. Tomorrow I am teaching a Moral Tales lesson on the concept of radical hospitality. The lesson plan is based around watching two scenes from Dances With Wolves -- no, really, it is! This isn't quite as ridiculous as the lesson on forgiveness and second chances that involved watching scenes from Hoosiers -- again, I swear I am not kidding -- but it comes pretty close.
These are not Moral Tales lessons, incidentally. They are borrowed from a curriculum called, IIRC, Popcorn Theology. I am not sure why we're doing them, unless the idea is to give the teachers a bit of a break from reading stories... in which case, it's backfiring, since we end up having to do twice as much explaining to make out-of-context scenes work for the kids as we would if we'd been given a story that's complete in and of itself.
Oh well. At least this time I already know the secret to using the incredibly unhelpfully labeled buttons on the DVD remote. *wry*
It was still snowing at that time, and the roads looked iffy at best, so I decided to wait on the shopping trip until today. Which turns out to have been a good choice.
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2. Borders, as you may know, is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. As part of this, they're closing about 30% of their physical stores. Which includes the one in Ithaca. This means massive blowout closing sales.
I used the two gift debit cards my Uncle Charles and Aunt Ji-lan got me for Xmas and my birthday, and bought a bunch of classical music pretty damn cheap. :-) I'd been thinking about DVDs, but those sections had already been picked over pretty thoroughly -- I was not interested in 98% of what was left, and the remaining 2% wasn't stuff I like enough to pay money for.
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3. Tomorrow I am teaching a Moral Tales lesson on the concept of radical hospitality. The lesson plan is based around watching two scenes from Dances With Wolves -- no, really, it is! This isn't quite as ridiculous as the lesson on forgiveness and second chances that involved watching scenes from Hoosiers -- again, I swear I am not kidding -- but it comes pretty close.
These are not Moral Tales lessons, incidentally. They are borrowed from a curriculum called, IIRC, Popcorn Theology. I am not sure why we're doing them, unless the idea is to give the teachers a bit of a break from reading stories... in which case, it's backfiring, since we end up having to do twice as much explaining to make out-of-context scenes work for the kids as we would if we'd been given a story that's complete in and of itself.
Oh well. At least this time I already know the secret to using the incredibly unhelpfully labeled buttons on the DVD remote. *wry*
