Couch 250: An August Couch

Sounds like the turtles in my campus’s turtle pond, climbing up each other to get as close as possible to the sun. Eventually the whole stack slips and falls into the water.

On precious moments…my mother in law also has a huge glass doubled door case filled with them. She also has precious moments decorative plates hanging on her walls. At Christmas time her entire tree is decorated with nothing but old precious moments ornaments. There is actually a good bit of money wrapped up in those things. My mother in law is in her 80’s and her collection stems back to when they first were sold in stores in 1978 or 1979…so all hers are the original collection.

Couch Workout Club day 20

Logged 5,000 steps thanks to my Sunday walk in the park and walking around a supermarket.

High school English teacher here. (Starting year 40! Woohoo!)

I find the strongest students prefer hard copies. They are attuned to their learning styles and want the ability to physically highlight, annotate, sticky note, etc. They also are aware that they get off task with technology in their hands. I provide electronic links to everything so they have the option to use technology, but honestly, most don’t.

I was that kind of student when at school and university.
It's definitely easier in some ways to be hands-on with the information.

That's really interesting. It does make sense to me. I figured it was just because I was old-school, but I also prefer reading physical books to reading on a Kindle, in part so I can highlight and make little notes. I know you can in a Kindle, too, but it's not the same.

With my own writing, perhaps because I was originally trained this way as an editor, ages ago, I also find it helps to print out drafts and mark those up (though I'll do some editing on screen, too). My actual work is all online, and the only time I print something out is if I have to do, say, a really complex reference renumbering (journal articles). But I imagine I still miss more things online vs. if I'd printed it out (don't want to kill that many trees though!)

ETA: And yes, the getting off task aspect is an issue for me, too. I'll need to look up something--say, a references is missing page nos. Then it's like, "While I'm here, let me check my email, oh, and maybe Facebook, and...."

Fancy smanchy.

I have a 10. It was my brothers hand me downs which I don’t mind. He has the 14 now. My sister still has her 7. Other sister has an SE.

Electronic books make highlighting less of a moral quandary to me.

Taking a pencil or something to a book will always feel like a form of criminal damage.

A friend offered to send me a copy of a book, and I explained my highlighter situation.

'You're gonna study, aren't you?'

Yeah, I probably am.

One of my favourite lines in the last book I loved was 'Study is secular worship.'

That really resonates with me.

Boy i conked out today. Still not out of bed.

Maybe you do just need the extra rest?

I’m happy, the leaves are falling and starting to get crunchy on the floor. I have been done with summer since early July. I need the rain and the colder temperatures.

Your the doctor!

Yes it looks like it will be cool from here on out. Today is still horribly humid but should be better tomorrow.

Eta - you are really right. I was just browsing my prime video menu, and i couldve sworn a show title was "Chicken Detective". It was Citizen, not Chicken. Gotta say, chicken sounds more intriguing!

So ready for falling leaves here! Probably another month or so to go...

Oh I want one of those - we only have very very bad sculptures on my campus.

I think they sold them in hallmark stores - you did see them a lot of places in the 70s. That and then in the early 80s - Mary Engelbreit stuff was everywhere

oooh any advice on how to start working out? I always start, last for a week at most, and then give up on the routine. I'm too skinny, I need some muscle STAT!

Maybe that means I am a strong student! I can't stand doing my work digitally, I need to write it by hand to feel satisfied

I ordered a fruit party plate from Shipt today. So i got like idk 6 fruits? I ate a few out of each section as i bagged them up for the week.

I replenish one paper product category each week. I am getting so organized! I really do have a great organizational mind - but just theoretically, not practically. I can see what is missing in narratives of manufacturing processes ive never witnessed, but my mail is stacked up from pre-covid.

Lost, here ya go: super cringe!

The ONE thing I?m sure I?m sure?? - YouTube

My theater son says the same thing about scripts, it's easier when he can highlight, add pencil notes, etc. He also prefers paper copies of study material for his "harder" classes (whatever harder means to him- he said "like the Shakespeare one" a theater study rather than lit, I think).

I have tried using the highlight-bookmark-notes options in e-reading apps, and there are some benefits to being able to get to a particular place in the text with a click, but I still find the systems overall more cumbersome than being able to flip back to a chapter while keeping your current place marked with your finger. Or being able to thumb through the book looking for that one part.

We actually have a stack of turtles sculpture somewhere on our local campus.

Thanks, Una.

My word, that is uncomfortable.

Hi,

Figuring out what I wanted from a workout has been a key factor in consistency for me.

Look on YouTube for a start, find a workout that meets your needs and figure out how you can fit it into your schedule.

Hope that helps,

Lost

Well done Una. Small steps still add up.

If it’s already been almost four years and the mail hasn’t been responded to, maybe try to throw out just 5 letters a day.

I got off a little early today. I hope they don’t plan to dock my pay as it wasn’t my choice to get done earlier-it was theirs. Anyways. One would think I would have used the time to be productive but that’s not the case. I came home a flopped on the couch.

If they let you go early, they have no business docking your pay.
Sometimes we need to rest - I'm glad you listened to that urge.

I hope the rest of your day is gentle.

Take care,

Lost