I realize I haven’t blogged in 6 months. I’ll chalk that up to my first semester in grad school, which means that all I do is read and write, and I don’t have time to do anything interesting.
But I did find something today that is incredibly interesting to me. A history teacher in Hawaii has created fantastic videos for her World History class, using popular songs. This absolutely floored me, her videos are fantastic. She has 50 on her Youtube channel. I’ve only managed to go through a handful of them.
I thought this one on Napoleon was great, although my favorite one so far might be about the Black Death, set to Gwen Stefani’s “Hollaback Girl” which is my favorite running song. I’ll work my way through them, but they really make me wish I taught World History so I could use them. I like to try to do creative things, but this is way beyond me.
And just a quick wrap up for the second half of 2010: I did well in both of my grad classes (Indian Identity and Research Methods.) I set a new PR at the OBX half marathon in November (2:06:39) which is over 4 minutes better than my time there last year, and a minute and thirty three seconds better than my PR at Shamrock last March. I shouldn’t have PR’d, with grad school I didn’t train at all. But I just had a good day, and the weather was nice.
Classes for this semester begin on Wednesday. I’ve got European Fascisms and Africa and the West. We’ll see how it goes. Maybe if I learn something interesting I’ll take a minute to post it.
And something I’m really looking forward to is a 1920′s party at the Norva coming up on January 21st. It sounds like a lot of fun. They’ll have an orchestra, a speakeasy, and a casino set up, and you have to dress for it. My flapper dress is on the way!
