Miscellaneous
Jan. 18th, 2021 09:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelseagirlI'm doing a Senior Seminar this semester which I've taught as a shorter summer class before (5 weeks and they're all working or doing internships full time, so limited in what can be assigned). I was working on my syllabus when I saw an email from the department chair regarding the fact that some of the classes have a reputation of being not rigorous enough. So I emailed him, because I worry. And heard the nicest thing back: my classes apparently have a reputation of being "hard, but interesting and fun," which as he said, was exactly the right place to be. Yay, me! (I am not the Queen of Self-Confidence.)
Watched: Lupin, WandaVision, Miss Scarlet and the Duke
Lupin is fabulous and I recommend it highly. I was lazy and watched the dub but it's short enough that I'll rewatch in French (with subtitles just in case) before the second half drops. Senegalese immigrant takes revenge on the man who framed his father 25 years earlier; said immigrant is a total fanboy of French gentleman thief Arsene Lupin (who seems to be kind of to the French what Sherlock Holmes is in the UK and US); plot very clever and twisty and very moving. Also Omar Sy is all kinds of handsome.
WandaVision: intriguing, funny, and I'm preparing for heartbreak if what I think is going on, is actually going on. Great cast. M didn't enjoy the first episode as much as I did, due to less familiarity with midcentury American sitcoms, but started to like the second one a lot more. It was a good idea showing the first two together, to build momentum.
Miss Scarlet and the Duke: female Victorian detective, London 1882. Of course I'm in. Not as stylish or original as The Alienist or Vienna Blood, but also less likely to break my heart like the former. I suspect I'll like it in the way I like Frankie Drake Mysteries -- pleasant & feminist but doesn't go too deep.
I'm falling behind on the January meme, mostly because setting up Canvas classes that are brand new rather than revised/adapted from earlier versions -- very time consuming. I've got the asynchronous online ones under control, but the synchronous/converged one is still a work in progress. But since it doesn't meet until Thursday, I'll manage. (Assuming, of course, there's not a civil war begun on Wednesday.)
But my writing group meets tonight and I need to still do some set-up work for the Writing Center, so . . . .
I'll move a few days' worth to later in the month. I've really been enjoying it.
Watched: Lupin, WandaVision, Miss Scarlet and the Duke
Lupin is fabulous and I recommend it highly. I was lazy and watched the dub but it's short enough that I'll rewatch in French (with subtitles just in case) before the second half drops. Senegalese immigrant takes revenge on the man who framed his father 25 years earlier; said immigrant is a total fanboy of French gentleman thief Arsene Lupin (who seems to be kind of to the French what Sherlock Holmes is in the UK and US); plot very clever and twisty and very moving. Also Omar Sy is all kinds of handsome.
WandaVision: intriguing, funny, and I'm preparing for heartbreak if what I think is going on, is actually going on. Great cast. M didn't enjoy the first episode as much as I did, due to less familiarity with midcentury American sitcoms, but started to like the second one a lot more. It was a good idea showing the first two together, to build momentum.
Miss Scarlet and the Duke: female Victorian detective, London 1882. Of course I'm in. Not as stylish or original as The Alienist or Vienna Blood, but also less likely to break my heart like the former. I suspect I'll like it in the way I like Frankie Drake Mysteries -- pleasant & feminist but doesn't go too deep.
I'm falling behind on the January meme, mostly because setting up Canvas classes that are brand new rather than revised/adapted from earlier versions -- very time consuming. I've got the asynchronous online ones under control, but the synchronous/converged one is still a work in progress. But since it doesn't meet until Thursday, I'll manage. (Assuming, of course, there's not a civil war begun on Wednesday.)
But my writing group meets tonight and I need to still do some set-up work for the Writing Center, so . . . .
I'll move a few days' worth to later in the month. I've really been enjoying it.
