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Posted Wednesday, March 4, 2009, at 1:46 PM<< Previous | Read comments | Respond | Email link | Next >>
I had a super shock yesterday morning when I was able to get tickets to see Leonard Cohen in Connecticut* this May. I'm beyond excited for the show and I've been driving my husband crazy because I can't stop talking about it.
I also found out this morning that bell hooks is speaking at MTSU on March 24th (at 4pm). I'm a big fan of hers and I've heard she's a great speaker. Add all this to the other lecture I've been waiting a year to see (thanks to all the planning, we've been doing at work) and it looks like this spring is shaping up to be quite busy and nice. Are there any upcoming shows any of you are excited about? I know a lot of people in the area get excited about Bonnaroo - are any of you going? * The timing was perfect since I was planning a trip to visit my mom and my in-laws around the time of the show anyway. Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] |
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Not really spring, but summer. I am going to a High Schools That Work conference in Atlanta in July. I've been to two others and it's really good for getting me motivated and for gathering new teaching strategies.
And just today, I found out I am getting to teach AP Biology!! Yeah! I'm really excited to teach a such a high level class. I have to go to a teacher preparation class at Western Ky for a week, end-June first-July. If I didn't have to work, I'd go back to school full-time, so this is just up my alley. I've never spent any time in Bowling Green, so I'm looking forward to exploring in the evenings. The Corvette Museum is already on my list!
Sorry for my nerdiness :-)
PS..Will you get to come to the garden club meeting Saturday?
Teaching AP bio must be really fun - and probably a bit more challenging for you (which is a good thing, I would think). I also think that going to conferences/training and getting paid for it must also be good.
Jer and I are planning on coming this Saturday - unless I can get some interviews for my paper done on Saturday. I'm taking a history class this semester - our objective is to write a ressearch paper that has something to do with TN history before 1980.
I don't have any shows that I'm looking forward to, but I can't wait for the yard sales to begin!
candasons07 - Even though I really dislike the TN summers, I do really love yard sale season (especially since yard sale season here is way longer than where I grew up in CT).
i am looking foward to Yard Sales! I never have been interested in Bonnaroo. Too many freaking people...eeek. Just no way...
I am looking foward to summer days/nights in the hammock with a glass of iced tea and a great book.
Watching the first lightning bugs come out.
That is paradise...
I'm hoping I can make the Prairie Home Companion visit to Nashville on May 2.
(That's not counting the horse shows,sf cons,Ren Faire,re-enactments,antique shows,etc.)
As for the yard sales,I love 'em.
Where else can I unload two truckloads of my stored treasures,purchace three loads of somebody else's chatchkes and buy some of my own stuff back three weeks later?
4fabfelines - I agree about too many people at bonnaroo. I think I would freak out with that many people so close to me.
quantumcat - One of my husband's uncles is so obsessed with Prarie Home Companion, that when they once went on a cross country car trip together, he (the uncle) only played taped (it was the early 80s) episodes of the show! now, my husband hates it. that said, I am interested in seeing the movie version that came out a few years back.
I've heard that movie wasn't quite up to the source material but Garrison Keillor is doing a second movie now that is looking to be much better.
Folks can get burned out on *anything* during cross-country trips.
(It was nice of God to provide His people with food and protection during their exodus but I bet they appreciated books,games and music even more.)
It's amazing that our ancestors came to this country and set off into unknown lands to make homes for themselves.
They survived with practically nothing.
Forget the weather,wild animals and other hostile forces.
They had no Kindles,laptops,Ipods,DVDs for the backseats or anything.
I'd think it would be a lot easier to enjoy time together with one's family if one could achieve a little separateness and silence with each person enjoying the distractions they prefer.
Then,the excitement of experiencing new places (and having quality time with one another) could be handled in manageable doses.
I wish I were brave enough for Bonnaroo.
Attending would be almost like getting a second chance at Woodstock.
But,I content myself with getting my entertainment from sources that don't need to advise people about how to avoid blisters and foot rot or how to bathe and go potty amid a few zillion other attendees.
I prefer not having to wonder if the mosquitoes would puncture my air mattress.
No,I think people nowadays have gotten too soft.
If I'm going to leave home to endure long hours of trudging,iffy food and,maybe,trying to sleep in mud,sweltering heat or bitter cold,I want to be able to attack some demonic forces that aren't my friends or family.
C - what are you doing your paper on? I get reimbursed for my trips, but no outright pay. Per diems are decent enough you don't have to stay at the roach motel and eat fastfood 24/7. I looked at the syllabi of a few other teachers yesterday evening, oh my. I have a lot of work to do.
Q-Cat - my baby is back in surgery. Her eye didn't make it and they are having to take it out :-( I don't mind the eye, I am just worried over her waking up. Dr. Harris was optimistic though. I have to be too :-)
I have to say up front that it was super hard coming up with a paper topic - I know almost nothing about the South in general, nevermind Tennessee. I'm doing a history of a Hare Krishna farm that's in Moore County. I've been doing the reading and it's really interesting. I've also gotten in touch with a few people who've been super nice and willing to answer my questions. It just seems really random to me that they would've picked rural TN to set up a farm.
I look forward to hearing what you find out.
I know what I saw of the Mulberry and Nashville crowd growing up but that's about it.
From the 1920's on,rural Tennessee acquired the Farm,the Highlander Folk School,a Bahai community and our influx of Mennonites,among others.
Especially in the Sixties and Seventies,I think "alternative" minds sought to take advantage of the beautiful natural resources,the rugged spirituality of the local folk,the changes wrought by post-war technology and the civil rights movement and the opportunity to have small,private communities that centered on simple lifestyles and complex ideas.
Country folk in Tennessee tended to be too iconoclastic to object too much to people who were "different" and didn't conform to the norm.
They,too,had a healthy skepticism about authority.
They might have been no less wary of people with unfamiliar or "fuzzy-headed" ideas but they understood deep committment,a pioneering spirit and the homely pragmatism that accompanies crafts and an agrarian existence.
In the case of the Hare Krishna sect and other "hippies",these strangers might have been as disquieting as they were exotic but they provided a chance to see an alien culture without straying too far from home.
So long as the new people posed no threat to their way of life and seemed like "folks",there was little animosity.
Most of the natives were willing to accept people at face value until they were known well enough to dislike or embrace in friendship.
Those who immigrated to Mulberry were lower key than Miles Horton or Stephen Gaskin.
They didn't seem to be up to anything but meditation,running vegetarian restaurants promoting good works,discouraging the use of intoxicants and mandating chastity.
Pure air,abundant,fertile land and a de-fanged Klan could have been a tempting combination for a sect looking to take their philosophy beyond eclectic urban centers.
Jacks4me,
I'm sorry about your dog's eye but she may adapt well to her loss.
A kitten we had did except he had to learn to use his other senses more.
(We didn't let him out around cars,horses,etc.-just in case.)
Until he caught on to his new limitations,there was just too big a chance of his being literally blindsided.
I'll say a few prayers that she does well with the anesthesia.
Her breed is tough so she might insist on getting a wardrobe of fashionable patches and convincing all the other critters that she's a pirate.
She'd work it better than any gothic lolita ninja, Angelina Jolie's Captain Franky Cook or Darryl Hannah's Elle Driver in "Kill Bill" anyday.
Quantumcat - so you remember when the Hare Krishna set up the farm? Would I be able to interview you for my paper? Are you going to the gardening meeting tomorrow - we're thinking of going, so we can set up something then.
jacks4me - I hope your dog is okay after the surgery.
Starr came home today and is doing wonderfully!! We are so pleased:-)
Yay,Starr!
I'll probably be at the VFW meeting but I don't remember much about the arrival of the Hare Krishnas other than people were much less perturbed than folks thought they'd be.
There was less murmuring than when the Farm appeared and more than when we were joined by the Mennonites.
One saw more Jack Chick tracts and talk about "flower children",George Harrison and cults for a few months then people moved on to other topics.
(The "communes" had been pretty well forgotten by the time business ventures with the Japanese came along.)
I'll try to come up with better data but I was a kid then and that was a LONG time ago!