Marina (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} marinalives) wrote,@ 2004-08-06 22:47:00 |
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Summer yawning
I just started an intensive class, only 6 weeks long and half online, called "Women in Art". Here's a quote from the textbook:
"Moreover, a desire to see the work of women exhibited, discussed, published, and preserved within existing discourses of high art often conflicted with a recognition of the need to critique and deconstruct those same discourses in order to expose ideological assumptions based in systems of domination and difference." Women, Art, and Society by Whitney Chadwick, 3rd edition, p. 11.
Translation: They couldn't decide whether they wanted to be approved by the system or get rid of it.
Only 100 more pages to read before Tuesday. I'm actually starting to enjoy it, though. Just call me a mad academic, but it's kinda fun to read something I can't just breeze through and skip every other sentence. Instead I have to read every sentence three times, but hey, you can't have everything. And then there's the online portion of the class... Everyone has to post a short essay and a response to someone else's essay every week. As usual in a community college class, my classmates come from a wide range of backgrounds
So yeah, after a couple weeks of absolutely nothing going on, life is starting to gear back up again. I've got this class, and Chris and Liz are getting back from Wisconsin in the next couple days, so there'll be more people in the house. Then visiting Charlie, and the California homeschooler conference, and NBTSC, and then it's September...
I'm not really sure what I'm doing in September. I have two weeks between getting home from NBTSC and when school starts, and my original plan from two or three months ago was to go to Wisconsin. But now it's seeming like the people in Wisconsin I was planning to visit will be relatively busy during that time. I was also thinking of flying out to Philadelphia and staying with Zack. But again, he'll be busy and working... And then there's the whole money issue. The most logical thing to do would be to stay here and get a job before school starts. So... I don't know what I'll end up doing. We'll see. I kinda like all my options, so it'll be good.
It was really windy today, and a large branch of the sort-of-apple tree in our backyard blew down. Josh gathered up all the apples that were scattered around the backyard, and I'm going to make applesauce tomorrow.
I just started an intensive class, only 6 weeks long and half online, called "Women in Art". Here's a quote from the textbook:
"Moreover, a desire to see the work of women exhibited, discussed, published, and preserved within existing discourses of high art often conflicted with a recognition of the need to critique and deconstruct those same discourses in order to expose ideological assumptions based in systems of domination and difference." Women, Art, and Society by Whitney Chadwick, 3rd edition, p. 11.
Translation: They couldn't decide whether they wanted to be approved by the system or get rid of it.
Only 100 more pages to read before Tuesday. I'm actually starting to enjoy it, though. Just call me a mad academic, but it's kinda fun to read something I can't just breeze through and skip every other sentence. Instead I have to read every sentence three times, but hey, you can't have everything. And then there's the online portion of the class... Everyone has to post a short essay and a response to someone else's essay every week. As usual in a community college class, my classmates come from a wide range of backgrounds
So yeah, after a couple weeks of absolutely nothing going on, life is starting to gear back up again. I've got this class, and Chris and Liz are getting back from Wisconsin in the next couple days, so there'll be more people in the house. Then visiting Charlie, and the California homeschooler conference, and NBTSC, and then it's September...
I'm not really sure what I'm doing in September. I have two weeks between getting home from NBTSC and when school starts, and my original plan from two or three months ago was to go to Wisconsin. But now it's seeming like the people in Wisconsin I was planning to visit will be relatively busy during that time. I was also thinking of flying out to Philadelphia and staying with Zack. But again, he'll be busy and working... And then there's the whole money issue. The most logical thing to do would be to stay here and get a job before school starts. So... I don't know what I'll end up doing. We'll see. I kinda like all my options, so it'll be good.
It was really windy today, and a large branch of the sort-of-apple tree in our backyard blew down. Josh gathered up all the apples that were scattered around the backyard, and I'm going to make applesauce tomorrow.
