10/23: What I Accomplished Today

1. Prepped a class, graded a class, taught a class.

2. Lots of hullaballoo today because a few days ago Rowling stated that Dumbledore was gay. You know, I think that's actually sort of cool: since it wasn't absolutely pivotal to the plot, there was no need to go into it. There's no need to bring it in just for the sake of bringing it in. I rather like that. In 20 years or so, kids may wonder, "Well, what's the big deal?" But we're not quite there, and in this here and now, I'm okay that she decided not to connect those dots in a book largely (although certainly not entirely) for children.

3. Last week, a family was on Ellen that interested me, so I arranged to Tivo some of their television show, and I saw some last night as I was going to sleep. The show is called Jon and Kate Plus Eight, and it's about a family who couldn't conceive naturally so they used fertility drugs and had twins, later deciding they'd like just one more child, so the mother went back on fertility drugs--and had not one child, but sextuplets. The older twins are now about six, and the sextuplets are two or three. I'm always fascinated with the dynamics of large families, so this was interesting to me.

* The mother is fairly honest. She is highly-strung and a little more...I'm going to say "control-oriented" than I think I might be in this situation--but for heaven's sake, she's got eight children under the age of seven. Control isn't always a bad thing.

* I've only seen two of the episodes, and of course you never know what percentage of family life is being filmed, but I'm a little concerned with the three little boys; they sort of play at each other rather than with each other. There were several shots in which we see the mother playing nicely with the little girls and everything's peachy-keen--but over on the sides, two of the little boys are just whackin' on each other. From what I've seen (which is a tiny fraction of the shows, and I have no way of knowing how representative it is), my inclination is that the family is raising five very nice, well-behaved little girls and three wolf cubs.

4. Worked a little on Pogo badges and television. Not a lot.

5. Level 35 Draenei Shaman. Wickerman. Made sure she'd finished the first batch of Hillsbrad quests. I hate the Sofera's Naze encampment. (What's a naze? Who's Sofera?)

6. Played a little Miss Management. Not a lot, and not very well.