Well this week I only had time for the second reading, which
was much shorter than the first.
Something that I’ve noticed and from Claire’s posts I see that she has
too, there seems to be a rather gendered view on the Indian Epics. The stories I’ve read about women have always
been about them as a wife, as a mother,
or something similar and less spectacular.
The only power they seem to have in their lives is how to take themselves
away from their husbands by dying such as Sati and Sita, both married to powerful
men, both giving their bodily forms up for their husbands.
This week I don’t really think I wrote anything
spectacular. I have neither the time nor
the patience to sit down and allow the words to come flowing from my brain,
through my hands, and onto paper or computer.
I generally don’t even have time to do the extra-credit work, but this
week I got a little pep in my step and so now I’m doing extra-credit, which
seems to be my best work this week. I
actually tried to sit down and do a little fantasy writing as a relaxation
exercise, but I couldn’t get my head into it because I always feel the pressure
of homework lingering over my head. I
always have this sneaky feeling that I’m forgetting to do something and even
when I’m not in school I feel it too!
Well I’m only in three classes this semester and frankly
it’s been really hard of late to leave my happy little home, drive the hour to
get to class, and then actually attend class.
That’s one of the reasons I love this class so much, I don’t have to
worry about my attendance. I just do the
homework; do the projects, all in my chair in my front room while watching
something like Property Brothers or Fixer Upper. So therefore I find it hard to show up to
class and even harder to get my mind going for these classes where it seems
like I’m studying the same things over and over again. I guess I’m a lot less focused than I use to
be. Also it’s really hard to come up
with an ethical essay and I think it’ll be really hard to come up with a
fifteen page paper on one!
Something that I’ve noticed on Facebook here recently is the
issue about the police officer arresting the young woman at the high school
when she failed to comply with the teachers.
I think it’s complete crap he was fired, I think it’s complete crap that
he was even called into the classroom in the first place, and I think the whole
situation is complete crap. Yes the girl
was distressed from the loss of her mother and grandmother, but that does not
give her the right to strike a police officer and ignore school policies and
teachers. She should not have resisted
at all when the police officer tried to remove her from the room and he did not
throw her. Anyone who has tried to throw
someone from that angle knows exactly how impossible that is. The whole situation is completely out of
context, and should never have happened if the teachers had taken the
appropriate steps in the first place. A
police officer should not have been fired over this. She was 17-18 years old and she knows how she
is suppose to act. The End.
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