July 3, 2007

  • Space Time Continuum

    It's nice to realize that the space time continuum is consistent and time is still relevant. Do you remember--or perhaps still experiencing--the difference in the speed of time? When you are waiting for the end of the Fall semester, October and November seem to go by so slowly. And yet, when Winter break arrives, it seems to end in the blink of an eye.

    Well, these days--and those of you working stiffs will probably agree--that time in general seems to have sped up. Have a deadline? It arrives in no time. Christmas? Is it here already? But I've come to realize that one's personal space time continuum remains constant. While time in general has sped up, this summer--when I'm really not doing much and just relaxing as I do some research at a leisurely pace--is going by at light speed. I swear, I go to sleep on Sunday night--actually Monday morning--and when I wake up its Thursday... THURSDAY! Who the heck deleted Tuesday and Wednesday?!?

    What gives?

    So while I'm pleased at the consistency of time, I'm beginning to get stressed--and losing some of that energy I thought I was recharging--because I am not accomplishing as much as I wanted to this summer. Ugh...

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  • Classes here make me appreciate your class more and makes me think about what kind of professor I want to be.

    My intro to modern literature teacher sings Tsubouchi Shoyo's praises. I just gave a presentation in the graduate modern literature class about how he is over-glorified. When I become a teacher, how will I be able to balance the information being given to an intro class such a way that I'm not overstepping the capabilities of an intro class but at the same time teaching them a complete picture? The intro class challenges me to read more material outside the class so that I don't take everything the teacher says for granted, which may be good for me but that isn't the kind of relationship I would want with my students.

  • Sensei, speaking of time, I'm running out of it. Has your scorn of the school e-mail system extended to GMail as well?

  • Aah... time: a complex system of measurement invented by mankind to keep track of, and organize, the infinite, never-ending moments in the universe. I definitely wish I had more time to plan and prepare. (X_X)

  • We could have all the time in the world, but it wouldn't be enough, it's our nature:

    ---

    Cacoethes Scribendi

    by Oliver Wendell Holmes

                  If all the trees in all the woods were men;
                  And each and every blade of grass a pen;
                  If every leaf on every shrub and tree
                  Turned to a sheet of foolscap; every sea
                  Were changed to ink, and all earth's living tribes
                  Had nothing else to do but act as scribes,
                  And for ten thousand ages, day and night,
                  The human race should write, and write, and write,
                  Till all the pens and paper were used up,
                  And the huge inkstand was an empty cup,
                  Still would the scribblers clustered round its brink
                  Call for more pens, more paper, and more ink.

  • It's the Matrix, Sensei! :P

  • I supposedly have 48 hours of weekend, but I swear, even though I only seem 8 hours a night, it feels more like 10 hours... I suppose the cleaning, laundry, and biking back and forth from errands eat up time, but it couldn't be THAT much, could it?

    Lately, it seems like my brain can't keep track of the time I spend on my bike... I get on my bike at 9:00 AM, bike for an hour, get off, and I expect it to be 9:02 AM. I don't get it, but it really eats into my time!

    Are you sure you're not pulling a Rip Van Wrinkle? ;)

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