Writing 1

First 45 minutes spent interrogating the readings

15 minutes plus looking at blog entries: how I feel

break

further discussion of blog entries

20 minutes:  start your rough draft for paper 1...

As they wrote: I typed out my version to see what ideas I might come up with as follows:

(later possibly)

They had read two short chapters from Goldman's Emotional Intelligence, popular a few years back.  My attempt to push students in a more "subjective" direction and to deal with in a round about way the ideology of enlightment individualism, automony and reason, so prevalent (still) at the universty.

Discussed the blog about drinking too much.  I asked why the student, as he wrote, felt sad after...he was not quite able to say.  Why not angry I asked; he was stumped.  Also discussed at length entry dealing with the death of a student on the soccer team and his girl friend, both killed in auto crash about Jan. 6.  One of the students had attended the funeral, a buhhdist one and had been offended by all the picture taking.  I suggest possible cultural conflict; need to look that up.  Student said he was ok with the grief, all over it; he and buddies had drunk 40's as a good bye toast.  Drinking forties means duck taping a forty ounce beer, I guess, to each hand and then you can't untape (to take a piss for example) uptil you have drunk it all up.  They did it partly because they had a fun memory of their dead colleague drinking 40s and barfing right into one of the 40 ounce cans.  I don't know if he had to drink that or not.

Drinking is part of the college experience;  I accept that. Part of a coming of age ritual, but I don't remember the whole thing being quite so ritualized...with all these drinking games.  We just drank and passed out.  And later we just smoked grass and drank a little wine to soothe the back of the throat.

They are going to put the start of their rough drafts up on the blog.  We will see what they come up with.