Miscellaneous

[chelseagirl]

I'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.

Comments

[chelseagirl]

Oh, yes, it feels like the off-brand imitation.

I had the same problem with Murdoch Mysteries -- I watched Miss Fisher, and then Foyle's War, and then tried Murdoch. I made it about 10 minutes into an episode and gave up.

[corvidology]

Ah, I have to admit to loving The Murdoch Mysteries, in part because of Murdoch and the rest of the supporting cast but largely because of Dr. Julia Ogden, the pathologist who regularly 'science nerds' with Murdoch.

See, you can never assume what a mate might like as I would have thought you'd love her.

[chelseagirl]

It just seemed cheesy in close comparison to the two above cited, when I'd gone from one to the other to Murdoch. A lot of my steampunk friends like it a lot, too; I may give it another chance at some point.

[corvidology]

I didn't see it back to back with the other two and who knows what I might of thought if I had?

Sometimes people just don't like stuff and that's all there is to it. :D