Halloween 09

I'd lost my star trek beam me up badge by this point.

Scot with guitar
Sam and his friends

Ellen's little one
Catherine

homework

Correcting assignments today based on the students' viewing of a Deborah Tannen video lecture about her work on the different ways men and women talk. One of the students wanted to reference her point that neither men nor women talk more, but that who does so varies according to whether the space is public or private. I quote:

"Men do pubic. Women do private."

If only he had added an 's' to 'private'...

this is where I live part 2

So today in my class where we were talking about language and gender we hit the topic of different ways that English refers to men and women. Of course we talked about titles: mr. mrs. miss. ms. and, guess what, a huge number of the students had no idea what ms was. One guy said that he knew the term and that it meant "a widow, um, like she had a husband, but she lost him."

technology teens

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be a teenager these days. I watch Catherine and her friends making use of all the fabulous technology and think how much fun Jeanne and I would have had editing endless pictures of ourselves. Here is a nice pic of Catherine and one of her friends.

fall break

Enjoying a much needed fall break. Mum has been here since last Thursday and we have done lots of fun things. We went outlet shopping, lunched in Park City, did a scenic drive for the fall leaves, saw Couples Retreat, had Ryan over for dinner, and had glorious facials. We look so fresh and dewy you wouldn't recognize us!
Tomorrow I am off to NYC for a whirlwind business trip, but hope to fit in a little shopping on Friday afternoon.

This is where I live...

Someone I know here at the university who is organizing an off-campus social event received the following RSVP.


If Desert Edge Brewery were inaccessible to someone because of physical
barriers, you would consider changing to another location. But what about
moral barriers? By entering, I give tacit approval to their promotion and
glorification of alcoholic beverages and their deliberately offensive
attitude toward my faith, e.g., a product called Latter Day Stout,
references to the “Zion Curtain,” and such.

Once again, count me out.

Because we are low brow

We went to see The Hangover at the dollar theater last night. Craig was worried that it would be too raunchy for S and C but I checked with Alison. I remembered her saying that she and Sian had accidentally seen it this summer and I always trust her developmental psychology expert opinion. She didn't recoil in horror when I posed the question so off we went. FUNNY.