Just watched Avatar...huge 3D visual spectacle, big action sequences, cool creature designs & landscape...But, I'm still giving it a "B."

HERO

What to do? What to do? I know! N-O-T-H-I-N-G!!!

*WHEW* Grades are done ... semester is over ... time to pack tonight and we'll be off to Kansas in the early morning. Cheers! :D

Still grading...one student turned in a two page proposal and not a final paper...unless he thought that was his final paper?!? :/

Didn't get to see Yuan Tan as the principal but it was a beautiful performance. Ended the night w/ an amazing dinner/drinks at Absinthe. :D

Nutcracker at War Memorial tonight. :)

Last class is over. Picked up my final set of papers. Going to enjoy the afternoon while I can before I start grading.

Last day of finals and they're not exams. They're project presentations on First Amendment and censorship. Should be fun! :D

Why is grading papers such an agonizing affair?

Finals week. One class done. One more to go and then it's grading.

Leave it to an art student to deconstruct Budd Dwyer's suicide on live TV as "obscene art." Time to put restrictions my syllabus.

Counting the days before the semester ends. :D

Planetarium show at the Academy was spectacular followed w/ a dungeoness crab dinner and ended the night watching John Woo's RED CLIFF. :)

Taking the day off ... visiting the California Academy of Sciences and SFMOMA.

Finally found time to revise one of my articles this afternoon -- a full 3 hours. :D

So Bad ...

I'm such a bad blogger these past few months which could be a good thing since the less time I spend here musing on random things is more time for something productive like publishing or writing, for instance.

But I've been reduced to a form of micro-blogging via Twitter and Facebook, occasionally chiming in on some point from another poster, but nothing lengthy or substantive.

Little snippets here and there, still random thoughts, stream of consciousness posts, and "SQUIRREL!" (if you liked Pixar's movie UP).

I cannot wait until the semester is over.

More than half of my students failed their assignments ... either they did not understand it, or they ignored the instructions ... Grrrrrr.

It must be near the end of the semester because I felt that all my energy drained away during my lecture today.

Driving across the Bay Bridge after it reopened was the most enjoyable trip that I've had in a long time. The traffic was the lightest ever!