Fall semester
This semester is going to be the busiest one in my teaching career: four classes, three “preps,” new duties as the department’s chair. I’m looking forward to developing my latent organizational skills. Two of my classes will have significant social media components; I’ll post links to those once there’s a bunch of content. Here‘s some of what my students will be addressing this semester.
Facebook Birthday
I am a big fan of Facebook for a lot of reasons. I like becoming friends with people I wish I knew better back in the day, I like being able to confirm friendships with old good friends (“you can’t make new old friends”), and I like, so very much, all the birthday greetings. I’m 51 today.
Fun New Band
The Dum Dum Girls: Wonderful songs, old-world production, lovely singing. Here is the band’s MySpace page. Click on the photo to listen to “Catholicked.”
New York
I’m off to my American home ground, Buffalo and Rochester and NYC, next week: A family reunion and visits with wonderful friends. Normally I loathe leaving BC, but I am very happy to be having this trip.
Worldwide Green Eyes
The above photo is from Lincoln Clarkes’ epic “Heroines” series, portraits of women who lived and worked in Vancouver’s downtown eastside in the late 1990s. It’s beautiful work, and it helped bring to public consciousness the “missing women” scandal ignored by the Vancouver Police Department at the time. Lincoln tells me he’s heading to Europe for a long stay. You will be able to see a photographic record of his travels on his wonderful website Worldwide Green Eyes.
