Valerie's MindSay Blog http://thescribe.mindsay.com Valerie - MindSay Blog http://thescribe.mindsay.com/procrastination_stress_boredom_personal_choices.mws thescribe 2006-10-01T05:10:50-05:00 <![CDATA[procrastination stress boredom "personal choices"]]> http://thescribe.mindsay.com/procrastination_stress_boredom_personal_choices.mws I haven’t been bored in years. That doesn’t mean that there haven’t been moments when I haven’t wandered around, looking for something to do. I have. Several times. That wasn’t boredom. Each and every...

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]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/thescribe/procrastination_stress_boredom_personal_choices.mws http://thescribe.mindsay.com/students_inappropriate_behavior_fear_profanity_teaching_challenges.mws thescribe 2006-09-13T04:09:43-05:00 <![CDATA[students "inappropriate behavior" fear profanity "teaching challenges"]]> http://thescribe.mindsay.com/students_inappropriate_behavior_fear_profanity_teaching_challenges.mws Some of you know I teach.  Last night I was teaching a course in MS Office to a group of students who want to major in criminal justice.  Many of them look at the computer as something vaguely akin to a booby...

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Remember Ernesto?  Well, it started...

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In one class, I gave an assignment to pick a goal and create a plan to accomplish that goal.  I have one student who is bright but lazy and has failed...

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A few years ago, someone was showing me a box full of old photographs. Almost tossing one aside, she said, “and of course, you have seen this one.”

I had not....

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Rev Cathian asked me to be more specific.  I thought and thought and decided that my problem is that I flunked all my classes in "popular culture".  I have absolutely no clue who or what is popular in...

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I need advice.  What better place to get it than here?

 

I have an opportunity to write a few articles for an organization that distributes articles to web sites.  They like...

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]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/thescribe/help_advice_on_normal_people_activities_wanted.mws http://thescribe.mindsay.com/_what_do_you_wanna_do_tonight.mws thescribe 2006-04-23T11:04:24-05:00 <![CDATA[" What do you wanna do tonight"?]]> http://thescribe.mindsay.com/_what_do_you_wanna_do_tonight.mws

He: “What do you want to do tonight?”

She: “I don’t know. What do you want to do?”

He: “I am not sure, what do you want to do?”

She: “I have no preference. YOU...

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Lady D, I believe, made a comment about my writing complaint letters.  I am posting a copy of one I wrote yesterday.  This was an e-mail message.  If I can't get a reasonable response to this message,...

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Yes, yes. I know. They didn’t do the work and they hope that the teacher won’t read the paper and/or catch the plagiarism. I can understand that a student might do that if she/he feels...

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