English Education Professor

Rachel (daughter, 13), did the art.

Link to bunnysruletheworld –  The Creator

Judge Posner writes 20-30 pages a night! Man.  Read all of the work habits of the differen profiles; they’re interesting! I like the different strategies for handling email.

I’m a very fast writer. I can write 20, 30 manuscript pages in an evening. I do revisions later, but I find it more efficient to get something down that indicates where the gaps in my thinking are, and what research has to be done, and so on.

Source: FORTUNE: How I Work

“A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I’ve encountered at the university so far.”

Source: University president recommends firing professor – CNN.com

That’s right, because all communities are the same. Here are the 100 Words from the editors of the American Heritage^® Dictionary.  

I do like the s-words:

sanguine
soliloquy
subjugate
suffragist
supercilious

On my anonymous poll of students, one of my Distance Education students wrote: “I am freaking out, and and it’s all your fault.”

Can’t be too much more clear than that.

Strategies Collection

Describe it – The story takes place in the yard, the kitchen, the bedroom, and the garden of Delia Jones and Sykes’ property. Some of the more important symbols include Delia’s “baskets of crisp, clean laundry,” her “whitest pile of things,” the “bull whip her husband liked to carry when he drove” and the snake.
Compare it – The garden is sort of like the Garden of Eden. The scene in the kitchen is similar to the kitchen scene in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Associate it – The laundry being crisp, clean, and white makes me think of innate goodness. The bull whip belongs to Sykes, Delia’s husband, and reminds me of power or dominance. The snake reminds me of the snake in the Garden of Eden, or Satan, representing evil.
Analyze it – The main conflict in the story is Sykes’ abuse of Delia. Delia is honestly earning her wages and accumulating wealth, while her husband is simply mistreating her.
Apply it – Since Delia ultimately allows the snake to bite her husband and kill him. In a sense, evil begets evil until it makes itself extinct; her husband treated her evilly, so Delia allowed the snake (representing evil) to kill her husband (who is himself acting evil). Delia’s work with the clean, crisp, and white laundry makes Delia the representation of goodness. Therefore, goodness wins over evil.
Argue for/Against it (my opinion) – In my opinion, Sykes gets his comeuppance (what he deserves) after the way he mistreated Delia. I like that goodness wins over evil.

A 1996 pdf document by Susan Ledlow of Arizona State.

Link

I like how this site has discussion posts right by the chapter summaries. I came upon this when I wanted to learn more about the zoology of whaling.

Link to Moby Dick by Herman Melville.

 I love this stuff, even though I’m more of a yellow GTD belt…

Black Belt

You have to look at your Calls list to know whom you have to call. You trust your intuitive prioritizing all day long. You can’t stand not doing a complete Weekly Review, and you’re operationally squeaky clean at least every couple of weeks. Your review time regularly takes you down constructive rabbit trails of creative thinking, decision-making, and idea generation. You no longer complain about lack of quality thinking time. You can leave a mountain of stuff in your in-basket and still have a good time, confident it’s all in a trusted system and will get tackled soon enough. You’re using speed keys instead of your mouse. You create useful temporary checklists on a whim. You’re willing to tackle thinking about any project or situation on call. All of your reference files have been reviewed within the last year. Your systems are completely accessible, functional and intact as you move from location to location. Others are highly sensitive to what they bring into your environment. There is little distinction between work and personal – there’s simply a positive focus on whatever you’re doing. You know how (and do) get yourself totally back into control by yourself, when you’ve slipped much longer than you’re comfortable with. You don’t need to convince anyone about the methodology – you’re usually not thinking about it, merely using it. You’ve stopped complaining about e-mail. You’ve lost only a couple of receipts this year. Friends no longer want you to see inside their offices or cars.

Black belt – 2nd Degree

Time has disappeared, most of the time. You often move fast, but you’re seldom busy. When you’re playing with the dog, you’re not thinking about any of the big stuff – you’ve already thought about it. You know what every key in your desk drawer is for.

Source: Ready To Test For Your Belt? (Getting Things Done) :: MarkTAW.com

Found this by way of Trey Martindale.  Link to Directory of E-Learning Tools: Podcasting tool