i watched a really interesting class today in the lab. it is a group of students from the university’s drama department that perform in virtual worlds. today they performed scenes from Shakespeare’s King Lear. i loved the level of enthusiasm the students showed both during and after their performances.

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there are things i want to teach my children as they grow to adults. they are lessons of hope and light.   shell silverstein, a poet my mother read to me as a child, has a beautiful poem that i will paint on their wall this weekend…
 
LISTEN TO THE MUSTN’TS
 
Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child,
Listen to the [...]

as i have mentioned here several times, i have been ill the last couple of weeks. tomorrow i have my final dr’s visit and not a moment too soon. all day i have been having chest pains. i don’t really see how it could be related (unless due to stress), but it i am glad [...]

i have the bad habit of putting too much in my paper outlines, and this time is no exception. in this paper, i will use a case study to identify markers of authorship in a certain weblog (which will remain unnamed). my audience is a group of linguists and i feel like i need to explain [...]

 you know how know has that smell. for me, it is difficult to define because it is all intertwined with wintergreen and smoky, wood burning stoves and tunneling under thin layers of ice as a small child. today on my way to work i smelled the familiar scent of snow. i don’t actually think it [...]

while searching for research done on online identity, i came across a master’s thesis called gender similarities and differences in online identity and language use among teenage bloggers. it seems to have an interesting table of contents and i am looking forward to delving into it today.
 
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when one creates an identity over time (as we tend to do in weblog writing) do we get ‘better’ at it over time? on the one hand i want to say yes, of course…it is a skill we practice. but on the other hand, maybe it becomes even more obvious because maintaining an identity, especially [...]

i want to learn to play the harp. a friend of mine makes new year’s resolutions and if she does not make it, a consequence must be paid. i wonder if i could make one something along the lines of ‘play one song on a harp’. not some little lap harp, but a big one!
 
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