The Sniffles
Assuming I ever get over my sniffles and split sleep, assuming Mike ever gets over his acute bronchitis... someday the Kindle 2 review (now at 2000 semi-topical words!) will appear here.
I'm still lurving it. No regrets, would buy again in a heartbeat, don't ever want to go back to just paper. (And unless you're a medieval text bound in embossed dragon leather, I'd prefer to read everything on the Kindle now. Seriously. I didn't expect that.) I'm not going to say it's for everyone, that would be a huge lie, but if you love reading and want the Kindle's free wireless internet (for instantly receiving first chapters, books, blogs, magazines...), it's a beautiful wonder. (Why not a Sony? Well, I'll get into details in my "review," but the Sonys are pretty spiffy. However, the Kindle's wireless is the dealbreaker for me. Your Needs May Vary.)
It's "observation season" at work right now. My supervisor still needs to squeeze in three observations between now and Spring Break (eight working days). I don't like this last-minute business. What if there's a problem that needs correcting? So, even though the kids are progressing nicely, and even though most of them aren't being dorks, I've got the Knot of Unfinished Business keeping me from truly relaxing. (Plus the sniffles.)
We have some rowdy (but edjamacational) activities planned - exactly the kind of thing I try to avoid during observations because of the classroom management issues. (AKA, it's a zoo of false starts, but all animals get their feed in the end.) However, I don't want to step on the student teacher's plans (as she is also being observed by the university several times in the coming days), plus the lessons are good, so, yeah. I'm going to stop thinking about it now.
(Oh Obama, there is so much to fix before we talk about longer school years. Longer seat time won't help those kids who can't handle the seat time we already have. And if we're to have merit pay, could you please make mine based on any period except for first? Shucks, only one-third of that class was absent this morning...)
Our Spring Break plans include going through the recently arrived coupon books for the new "M" resort and for the Palms. Otherwise, I'm eager to hasten the march to June. (Hey, that sentence works on two levels.)
I hate the sniffles. Stupid sudden temperature changes.
I don't have anything to say. The past week and a half has been devoted to Mike's illness (as covered in the Kindle review that you can't see). He's better but not really improving much since getting back to the walking/talking stage. The doctor gave him a prescription for a stronger antibiotic and says this may take a month. I guess the moral is, don't take your sniffles for granted. They may be more ambitious than you think.
With that thought, I'm going back for a lie down with the Kindle. I keep wondering about the name. Is it proudly declaring its status as a paper book burner (destroyer)? Or is it firing up my love of reading? I actually miss it when I'm at work. Can you imagine if every student had a sophisticated e-book reader and, instead of printing textbooks, we bought licenses to upload them? It would never work, but I wonder what it would cost...
(Whenever Mike hears people worrying about "socialism" in the US and not wanting to be "full of socialist policies" like the UK, Australia, Canada... he brings up school textbooks. In Australia, schoolkids buy their textbooks. That's so unthinkable here. What about poor kids who can't afford them, right? So we buy everyone's textbook for them - and no one cries "Socialism!" Funny stuff. And then the kids remove the covers, scribble hate language on the edges, and then - always inexplicably - steal the books, as if that's going to stop all of this nasty reading we inflict upon them. And then we try to find the money to buy more.)
(Or maybe that's just my inner city school.)
(Sniff.
I'm still lurving it. No regrets, would buy again in a heartbeat, don't ever want to go back to just paper. (And unless you're a medieval text bound in embossed dragon leather, I'd prefer to read everything on the Kindle now. Seriously. I didn't expect that.) I'm not going to say it's for everyone, that would be a huge lie, but if you love reading and want the Kindle's free wireless internet (for instantly receiving first chapters, books, blogs, magazines...), it's a beautiful wonder. (Why not a Sony? Well, I'll get into details in my "review," but the Sonys are pretty spiffy. However, the Kindle's wireless is the dealbreaker for me. Your Needs May Vary.)
It's "observation season" at work right now. My supervisor still needs to squeeze in three observations between now and Spring Break (eight working days). I don't like this last-minute business. What if there's a problem that needs correcting? So, even though the kids are progressing nicely, and even though most of them aren't being dorks, I've got the Knot of Unfinished Business keeping me from truly relaxing. (Plus the sniffles.)
We have some rowdy (but edjamacational) activities planned - exactly the kind of thing I try to avoid during observations because of the classroom management issues. (AKA, it's a zoo of false starts, but all animals get their feed in the end.) However, I don't want to step on the student teacher's plans (as she is also being observed by the university several times in the coming days), plus the lessons are good, so, yeah. I'm going to stop thinking about it now.
(Oh Obama, there is so much to fix before we talk about longer school years. Longer seat time won't help those kids who can't handle the seat time we already have. And if we're to have merit pay, could you please make mine based on any period except for first? Shucks, only one-third of that class was absent this morning...)
Our Spring Break plans include going through the recently arrived coupon books for the new "M" resort and for the Palms. Otherwise, I'm eager to hasten the march to June. (Hey, that sentence works on two levels.)
I hate the sniffles. Stupid sudden temperature changes.
I don't have anything to say. The past week and a half has been devoted to Mike's illness (as covered in the Kindle review that you can't see). He's better but not really improving much since getting back to the walking/talking stage. The doctor gave him a prescription for a stronger antibiotic and says this may take a month. I guess the moral is, don't take your sniffles for granted. They may be more ambitious than you think.
With that thought, I'm going back for a lie down with the Kindle. I keep wondering about the name. Is it proudly declaring its status as a paper book burner (destroyer)? Or is it firing up my love of reading? I actually miss it when I'm at work. Can you imagine if every student had a sophisticated e-book reader and, instead of printing textbooks, we bought licenses to upload them? It would never work, but I wonder what it would cost...
(Whenever Mike hears people worrying about "socialism" in the US and not wanting to be "full of socialist policies" like the UK, Australia, Canada... he brings up school textbooks. In Australia, schoolkids buy their textbooks. That's so unthinkable here. What about poor kids who can't afford them, right? So we buy everyone's textbook for them - and no one cries "Socialism!" Funny stuff. And then the kids remove the covers, scribble hate language on the edges, and then - always inexplicably - steal the books, as if that's going to stop all of this nasty reading we inflict upon them. And then we try to find the money to buy more.)
(Or maybe that's just my inner city school.)
(Sniff.
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Posted by: Reese | 26 March 2009 at 08:05 AM