weds aug 27
wake-
7:15 am-7:30 reading novel Feed
9:30 am to 10:45 car radio scan. 20 mins on Burlington Techno station, 10-15 minutes on 'air-one' (erehwon) christian rock station, 20 mins +/- on glenn beck listening to response to last nights hillary clinton speech.
afternoon-approx 30 minutes on and off facebook trading messages with some old friends who found me.
evening/after dinner approx 30 minutes shopping vermont craigslist for some things
8:30-9pm reading aloud garth nix novel to my son
9:30-11 tivo of demo nat convention clinton and biden speeches, followed by some daily show
11-12:30 syllabus development work laced with email and web multitasking
12:34 bed
13 comments:
9am-aol.com checked e-mail
all day but from 2-5pm, and 10-1115am listened to music
12pm-analyzed Guernica painting by picasso
530pm-on eliptical trainer listening to music but "watching" Friends on TV
6pm-watched 2 mins of news at my parents but couldn't stand it so i shut it off.
9pm: read about memes
then off to Sleep :)
woke up:checked e-mail
read a ton for this class :)
Watched Fargo at night
Delia Crosby
Friday, Sept. 5
5:00 am - wake up / early sitting
6:30 - tuned in to VPR
7:30 - Browsed Huffington Post, CNN, NBC for news
9:00 Work
9:30 Looked at Colleges unsing Drupal
1:00 Watched online video tutorial at Lynda.com
3:00 Back home, drive to New Hampshire. Listened to Piazzolla records
Posted by Delia Crosby
Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008
7:00 Wake up
7:30 - 9:00 Sitting
10:00- 4:00 Wedding, listened to jazz, pop, Reggae
5:30 Drive back to VT, listened to VPR, Your Prairie Home Companion
Posted by Delia Crosby
Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008
8 am - Half day sitting, silence
6 pm - Played violin
Listened to my husband's students learning mandolins
7:30 - Conversations at dinner table
No radio, no internet.
Re-Posted by Delia Crosby
Sept. 4, Thursday
7:00 am - tuned in to NPR/VPR to listen to news and weather.
7:30 - browsed Huffington Post for the latest headline
8:00 - Switched to CNN/MSNBC
9 am - At work, browsed through the internet to research for universities and colleges utilizing Content Management System (CMS).
9:15 Researched SourceForge.com about Drupal,
9:20 Logged into the following websites to investigate examples of Drupal ( http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/). Amherst College ( https://www.amherst.edu/), NECI, (http://www.neci.edu/) Washington University: http://artsci.wustl.edu/, University of Michigan: http://www.snre.umich.edu/ and Univ. of California in Berkeley (http://berkeley.edu/)
10 am: Streaming Video:
A quick investigation of Drupal set-up at Lynda.com. Downloaded bonus of exercise files. I had a quick look at about the set up by opening the online streaming video.
MEDIA MEMOIR Posted by Delia Crosby
Sept. 7, 2008
In general terms I belong to “Generation X.” But the country where I grew up called us “Martial Law Babies.” 1972 saw the height of a new fascist regime that continued for 20 years. The media was silenced. But people utilized another form of media to air protests, through graffiti and paintings on walls. Big bold red and black painted slogans; political and philosophical statements by revolutionaries, reformers, leftists. When the government cleaned-up the streets, the very next day airbrushed grafitti and mural paintings were back again, updated and entertaining. They called it “Protest art on a lightning rally.” Several artists would paint real quick, within minutes, to fill up the entire wall and scoot away before policemen could arrive.
This was the time I began to appreciate art. There were three painters in my family, all influenced by traditional classical rennaissance. I imitated their paintings at the beginning, but in reality, my art truly began to blossom in the streets where a mix of expressions had been staged and silenced. I realized too that nothing is accidental. It is not a matter of being able to assemble forms, of lines and shapes, depths and textures, of lights and shadows,—that is the easy part. What to paint is the greatest challenge; the content of the message conveyed.
My parents never allowed us to watch television and until we were grown ups, no such appliance came into the house. With this I am eternally grateful. When the media was silenced, I mean the kind of “silencing” in a way that its content was censored by the reactionary government. My parents listened to the news and political commentaries on radio and read newspapers. They told us which one to read and listen to and what not to. During Easter season, we watched theatrical plays staged on streets. The story is the same each year: Constantine’s crusade against the Muslims and the Holy Grail. But I always look forward to seeing it. It is heavily decorated with garlands of flowers, of capes and boots and swords, accompanied by musicians playing trumpets, trombones and drum. Each Christmas we get to see the same nativity story over and over. My sister and I talked and mimicked it a lot in a storytelling fashion.
I first learned the alphabet through World-bank designed curriculum that is obviously for western interests. “A” is for Apple, didn’t make sense because such fruit dis not exist where I lived. At Christmas, singing songs like “I’m dreaming of a White Christmas” had no meaning for us, because snow and snow storms were beyond my imagination. I read a lot of local comics, from strips and cartoons, to Marvel’s superheroes. My first art teacher introduced me to Paolo Serpieri’s fascinating anatomy of Druuna, injected with humourous, real-life content of Norman Rockwell.
I loved books and I read those easily available like Marx’ Dialectics and Mao’s cultural feud. I learned some about the Bolsheviks, the bourgoisie and the proletariats and made rubber prints of them. Children’s declamation and oration was a form of entertainment in school and at home. My mother made me memorize passages from Corinthians Chapter 13 and Lincoln’s Gettysburgh address—which again didn’t make sense to me until I visited the Gettisburgh killing fields in Pennsylvannia. I was fascinated with the poetry of King Solomon’s “The Song of Songs.” Although my mother taught me music, I learned piano by ear. It was something that welled up inside me and I loved it. We sang gospel music on Sunday service, and on special occasions we sang solo and accapella music together.
Posted by Delia Crosby
Monday, Sept. 9
5:30 - got up, sit in silence
7:00 Read Feed
9:00 work
12:00 -1:00 - Read Huffington Post, Al Jazeera News
1-3 - worked on php
3-9 class, Read class syllabus, Browsed new book: Inquiry
9:30-10: online news - MSNBC
Sept 3
Watched History Channel documentary on Bonnie and Clyde
Went to Pub and Brewery and heard and array of classic rock
Watched No Country for Old Men
Sept 6
Drove to NH listened to several tapes
including
The Who
Barry White
Credence
Etc
Got home, watched an episode of Mom Swap (fundamentalist christian swaps with agnostic tattoo artist)
Sept 7th
Watched VMA's on MTV
Was confused because I wasn't sure if MTV actually had anything to do with music anymore
and was also appalled because Britney Spears won 3 awards which was in my opinion planned/staged
Sept 8th Drove to VT from NH
Listened to same/similar tapes
Watched an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm on DVD
Sept 9th
Listened to Iron Maiden in boyfriends car on the way to the mall
Posted by: Delia Crosby
Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2008
5:30 Wake up, sit in silence
7:00 read Feed
8:00 Tune din to VPR
9:00 work
8:00 - see internet news MSNBC
9:30: read essay "On Being a
Cripple" by Nancy Mairs
10:30 - Read Feed
well done log.
where's everybody else!
oh well.
feel free to start new threads
(anyone reading this)
rather than post comment,
anyone can post something new.
where did you grow up?
Posted by Delia Crosby
How do you make new thread??
Forgive my ignorance, but I can't seem to find the button that will lead me into making one.
Thanks,
Delia
Posted by Delia Crosby
Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2008
5:30 - got -up
7:00 - tuned in to VPR for news, Writer's almanac, weather
9:00 - work
10:00 - downloaded Zimbra package for Linux installations
12:00 - chat at Sourceforge.net on how to install mail client
10:00 pm watch MSNBC on lipstick smear
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