I have too many things to do today - just can't seem to focus on any of them long enough to actually get anything done.
I need a time out!
Should, I suppose, make a list of everything that needs doing and then figure out which ones are most pressing - and/or doable - it would be nice to get at least the little ones crossed off the list; then perhaps I might manage to focus on some of the bigger ones.
So far I've mostly just been flitting - reading a lot about Aboriginal peoples in Alberta in 1910. I thought I would cover 1910 - 1920 for my major paper for my core course - but there is SO much information and SO much that has already been done; I need to find a way in that can lead to a decent paper that I can write. Keeping in mind that my area is literature, and the function of fiction, and mental health issues - NOT politics or Aboriginal affairs or history.
That's kind of the point of this particular paper - we are to write something that is OUTSIDE of our comfort zone. So far, not having fun.
For my other major paper (in Issues of Citizenship) for this semester, I thought I would give myself a break and try to come up with something that is firmly in my own area(s) - so for that one, I'm going to look at messages of citizenship directed towards children - a public texts approach, in other words.
So this week, my goal is to collect pictures of school bulletin boards and trophy cases, and ~stuff~ like that .... also hoping to get some pictures of things at the YMCA and other places that kids hang out.
Would have been better if I already HAD pictures by now - I have to give an overview of my paper this Tuesday in my class - but I spent SO much time in vehicles this past week, it just wasn't possible.
Went to Niagara Falls to see my dad on Wednesday, then headed to Peterborough as soon as I got back here. From there, I went to Ottawa, returned yesterday and we headed home again as soon as I got back from there. Could have tried to get in and take some on Monday, but there is a Master Class at Georgian on Monday that I've been invited to (with Michael Crummey) and then a reading in the evening that I might also get to - or not - it would probably be better to do the afternoon class, go out for dinner with my friends from LU @ Georgian and then come home and get Ross and head back to Peterborough; my class on Tuesday is at 10 a.m. so better to get there the night before. Besides, I have a paper I need to print for it, and my printer is there, not here. Pain in the arse, that! Would just go buy another printer, but there's a sign up for a credit card get a free printer from Staples that we were going to do instead. I need to get on that or we'll miss out though. Great - adding to my to-do list already! LOL Bad plan!
Doesn't look like the kids are going to get a break in the weather for Hallowe'en here. It is cold and wet and very, very windy. The water is way up; Ross was down at the waterfront pulling in more docks and so on while it is high; doesn't seem like much fun. Friends are supposed to be coming over for dinner tonight; I bought stuff to do chinese. Should get off my arse and cut veggies and meat and have it all ready, I suppose - but not exactly motivated right at the moment. Need to get the table cleared off again too.
A bit perturbed with tenants this month - they're all still getting along well and keeping the house clean and all that good stuff - but seems like they're all having ~issues~ around paying their rent. One paid Ross rather than me - which is fine except that Ross didn't notice that he paid him $100 less than he should have and didn't mention it to him! Another asked to be allowed to pay in 4 weekly installments - and the other 2 haven't said a word, nor coughed up any $$ either. Hopefully they will have theirs when we get back there on Monday or Tuesday. I SO much prefer it when everyone just hands over their rent and I don't have to ask for it.
Still no potential tenants for the other house we have hear either, which worries me. When it's full, we have frequent inquiries about it - but now that it is coming empty no one seems to want it. I can NOT carry 3 houses; 2 is quite enough on my plate, thank you. We need tenants!
Anyway, guess I should get back to trying to get some work done before its time that I DO have to get off my butt and go make dinner. Reading? Proposals? PK Page? Decisions, decisions!
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not quite sure how I'm going to manage to be 3 places at once on Dec 8, for starters!
Angela is getting her costume on for trick or treating.
But now I have left Magi's damn Server behind and I can finally get around on Gather to see what everyone is up to.
Hope you had a Happy Halloween.
1. see 2 of the grandchildren play hockey (both lost)
2. start a granddaughter on socks and a circular shawl. Bonus -- took her to two yarn shops and to read her knitting.
3. get curtains cut for A. The pair they are replacing are only 18 years old and made of sheeting material so guess it is about time.
Hope you got enough done to feel good about what you did accomplish.
still plugging away at stuff.... haven't managed the proposal(s) yet, but through bunches of the readings
Funny how both you and your sister "have to read" for your work. Lots of people would love to manage doing that.
Here's an example:
Altman contends that a social situation where the kind of individual freedom endorsed by the liberal view prevails would be characterized by a pluralism of fundamentally incompatible moral and political viewpoints.… The establishment of the rule of law under the conditions of pluralism would require some mode of legal reasoning that could be sharply distinguished from moral and political deliberation and choice. There would be a sharp distinction between law on the one hand and morals and politics on the other. Without such a distinction, judges and other individuals who wield public power could impose their views of the moral or political good on others under the cover of the rule of law.… [This] would destroy the rule of law and the liberal freedom it is meant to protect. Thus the liberal view requires that legal reasoning— that is, reasoning about what rights persons have under the law and why— be clearly distinguished from reasoning about political or ethical values. Legal reasoning is not to be confused with deciding which party to a case has the best moral or political argument (1990: 13– 14).
Aylward, Carol. Canadian Critical Race Theory: Racism and the Law.
Winnipeg, MB, CAN: Fernwood Publishing, 1999. p 20.