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Thursday Think 'n' Share LXXXIV
posted Thursday, 1 March 2007
Well, I've run out of cards in my "Couples' edition" of The Ungame. I have some other edition out of which I haven't asked all the questions, but I misplaced it in the move. Beyond that, I'm not sure where I'm going to get good questions for this regular feature. Sad, isn't it? Exhausted after only LXXXIII editions of the Thursday Think 'n' Share. However many that is.1 For this week, at least, I'll be making up my own questions. Unless they're crappy questions, in which case you can assume that someone else wrote them for me. As always, please leave your own responses in the comment section--thanks for playing!
In honor of the new show I've gotten hooked on, I'll ask: how much television do you typically watch? How important is it to you?
In one sense, I don't watch much TV at all, largely because I rely on rabbit ears to get my TV. Watchin Lost last night, for instance, it was sort of like listening to a radio broadcast of the show. I'm more and more likely to do my television watching on my computer these days (or on my girlfriend's TiVo. Still, I keep my viewing within fairly narrow bounds. I have four shows that I follow now: Lost, Friday Night Lights, Battlestar Galactica, and now Heroes. I catch an occasional Daily Show and The Colbert Report. During football season I watch football. How important is it all to me? Not that important, really. I get into the shows I'm watching, but if television suddenly disappeared it wouldn't disrupt my life or liveliness.
What role does reading play in your life?
As an English teacher, I do a fair bit of reading as part of my job. I re-read every book every year to renew and deepen my connection to the literature I'm teaching (this year, of course, it's mostly not re-reading because I'm teaching a number of texts that are new to me). Beyond that, my reading is in fits and starts. During the first semester, I did almost no reading that wasn't tied directly or indirectly to my teaching. Since winter break, I've managed to find a little more time to set aside each day for my own personal reading, but that's been slow going (as evidenced by the book reviews I've posted here since then). I've been keeping track the last several years of the books I've read, not counting stuff for school, and it looks like this: In 2006, approximately 40 books; in 2005, only 25; in 2004, 35; in 2003, 60; in 2002, 51. As you can see, it's pretty up and down. What those numbers don't tell you, though, is that most of that reading happens during vacations from school, largely winter break, spring break, and summer vacation. I read a fair bit, but I should like to be able to read more.
Taking these questions to the other big medium: what role does your computer play in your life?
I use my computer a lot for work--writing up handouts, getting information from students, colleagues, and parents. I use it to listen to music, to listen to the radio, to watch TV. I use the internet sometimes to look up things to use in class to supplement my teaching. I don't really "surf" randomly much; I have blogs I read, I check obsessively for comments here, and I have a few sites I go to few news of the world and news of a small slice of the sporting world. I have one webcomic that I read. That's about it. It takes up a good bit of time though.
1. I'm sure you know as well as I do that it's 83.
In honor of the new show I've gotten hooked on, I'll ask: how much television do you typically watch? How important is it to you?
In one sense, I don't watch much TV at all, largely because I rely on rabbit ears to get my TV. Watchin Lost last night, for instance, it was sort of like listening to a radio broadcast of the show. I'm more and more likely to do my television watching on my computer these days (or on my girlfriend's TiVo. Still, I keep my viewing within fairly narrow bounds. I have four shows that I follow now: Lost, Friday Night Lights, Battlestar Galactica, and now Heroes. I catch an occasional Daily Show and The Colbert Report. During football season I watch football. How important is it all to me? Not that important, really. I get into the shows I'm watching, but if television suddenly disappeared it wouldn't disrupt my life or liveliness.
What role does reading play in your life?
As an English teacher, I do a fair bit of reading as part of my job. I re-read every book every year to renew and deepen my connection to the literature I'm teaching (this year, of course, it's mostly not re-reading because I'm teaching a number of texts that are new to me). Beyond that, my reading is in fits and starts. During the first semester, I did almost no reading that wasn't tied directly or indirectly to my teaching. Since winter break, I've managed to find a little more time to set aside each day for my own personal reading, but that's been slow going (as evidenced by the book reviews I've posted here since then). I've been keeping track the last several years of the books I've read, not counting stuff for school, and it looks like this: In 2006, approximately 40 books; in 2005, only 25; in 2004, 35; in 2003, 60; in 2002, 51. As you can see, it's pretty up and down. What those numbers don't tell you, though, is that most of that reading happens during vacations from school, largely winter break, spring break, and summer vacation. I read a fair bit, but I should like to be able to read more.
Taking these questions to the other big medium: what role does your computer play in your life?
I use my computer a lot for work--writing up handouts, getting information from students, colleagues, and parents. I use it to listen to music, to listen to the radio, to watch TV. I use the internet sometimes to look up things to use in class to supplement my teaching. I don't really "surf" randomly much; I have blogs I read, I check obsessively for comments here, and I have a few sites I go to few news of the world and news of a small slice of the sporting world. I have one webcomic that I read. That's about it. It takes up a good bit of time though.
1. I'm sure you know as well as I do that it's 83.
Say something, will you?? (4)
1. --W-- left...
Friday, 2 March 2007 10:34 am
Amount of TV watched
2. lisapooh left...
Saturday, 3 March 2007 9:55 am
TV is mostly back ground noise for me. I don’t like it to be really quit
when I am alone.
3. sophmom left...
Saturday, 3 March 2007 1:53 pm
Couples edition all gone? *sophmom does the little happy dance;)*
4. cattykizmo left...
Tuesday, 6 March 2007 3:29 am :: http://savetheamericanfamily.blog-city.c
TV-not much. Some local news/weather, some CNN/weather channel. I do like
Forensic Files and the Discovery and Documentary channels. I don't think I
spend more than 2 hours a week watching TV.