9/1/20
7-710: Check-in… how’s your day, week? Narrate your day…..
710-730: Before we get into Sedaris, talk to us about your reading methods….
730-750: Sedaris, the four essays we read. Observations? How did the reading feel? What insight do you have on this author?
750-810: What parts/quotes did you like most? Why?
810-830: Does he have you thinking about writing a different way, possibly telling your own story from a funnier form?
830-850: Thoughts, and close…..
ASSIGNMENT: Read the next three essays, take notes on them IN YOUR JOURNAL. Post pictures of your journal writings on Sedaris, on your class’s assignment post. Any questions, send me a text.
Good evening!!! I had a pretty busy academic day today, two zoom classes this am and early afternoon. Just finished a virtual barre class with my gym so I’m feeling a lot better (since I haven’t been able to do this is freakin months!!) and I’m gonna feel it tomorrow LOL.
Hi Julia!! Good to see you! Good to have those busy days!! Keep the drive and pace!!
Bonsoir, everyone!!
Hi everyone!
Hi Cassandra!
Hi everyone!
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hello!
Welcome!!!
Hi there!!
How is everyone’s day going?
Well… you?
Good ready to start class!
My week has been going pretty good been working out everyday lost 4 lbs just last week and I have been busy with school work and trying to get everything done on time
Welcome!!
Hello everyone! I hope everyone is doing well! Today I was able to go get a hair cut with a local barber so I am feeling great today! I went out of my comfort zone and got a new style and I am loving it. I had to make an appointment so it was a little nerve wracking since I have some bad anxiety and having to wait an entire week was torture, but let me tell you it was worth the nail biting and breathing exercises.
Thanks for being here!!
Hello everyone!
My week was rather uneventful. I spent most of my time on Zoom calls and homework.
Those are events!! Something that’s in your story!
Hey guys! Pretty good day, im already procrastinating and woke up early to finish math homework, but hey got it done!
Good!!
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Hey guys hope everyone is having a great evening.
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Hi everyone!
Hi Claudia!
Good Evening! Well Today was my first day back from Maternity Leave, my husbands first day back since the second round of shut downs, my 3mo old’s first day at his grandmas and my 3 year old starts pre-school tomorrow and I am just in my feelings today. I know it will all be ok and we will all just need time to adjust to all these changes but man change is definitely hard when it all comes at the same time lol
Hi!! Great to see you! Congrats on your return! Have fun tonight!
Thank You!
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My day is going good.I been busy all day I have three kids and I am pregnant and I go to school so it is a busy day doing my children’s school work and me doing my homework and doing house chores all in the same time. Can’t wait for Friday its my relaxing day.
Hello everyone!
Hey Kaylin!!!!
Hi everyone, I have had a great day today and I hope everyone has as well.
Well I am here and ready for discussion.
Hey everybody. Got terrible sleep last night so today was a very tired day. Ready for this smoke to go away, making going outside to get stuff done a very strange experience.
I think we all are ready for that. Thanks for being here!
Hello Everyone!! I’m feeling very excited this week. I put in my two week notice at my job of 5 years yesterday and I’m going to start my own business. I’m leaving to Las Vegas on Thursday night for my cousins wedding, so this is also a forewarning that i wont be present/actively responding to the class since i will be on my flight at the time, but I will go through and read everyone’s responses. I’ll also be driving to Long Beach from Vegas on Sunday since Monday is a holiday and I’m going to spend some time with family there.
What kind of busy are you going to start up?
i will be vinyl wrapping cars and installing performance accessories, and then eventually add on more services such as brake service, tire replacements and general maintenance
Good luck on your new journey!
thank you
Thanks for being here, and this narration! Have fun tonight!
Today was a pretty rushed day and seemed to take forever for it to be over. I Woke up to a phone call at 6:51am from my coworker telling me his was outside to pick me up. After a whole 2 minutes of getting ready I went out the door and already couldn’t wait for the day to be over. First we went to the shop and loaded up for the day then we headed out to this job where we sat in an attic for 6 hours until it was blazing hot, then went to three more jobs until the day was over at 5 and was able to come home and shower and relax. Made a quick run to the grocery store for lunch things for this week and now were here.
Hey Noah. Thanks for posting!
Just to keep us on point Ihave only written noted in my journal so far.
Very tired since I have been working/ studying for my financial accounting class. Other than that I am excited because my job opened up yesterday and as much as I used to dread my job, I’m happy to be back and see all my coworkers.
Yes! I was the same way, seeing my co workers again, was much needed
Sedaris findings, I found that by reading at least his first four essays, he is what I thought he was going to be. I also do not like his family much so far.
Why? What observations do you have, aside from what you like and don’t like?
Well his dad though was probably a man of his times, Both in attaboy and Memory laps he references his father in a not very friendly light. In attaboy hr goes after Tommy without ever checking if it was the right thing to do and when he is wrong he forces the boy to eat ice cream even though he was at minimum uncomfortable. In mind laps his pops dotes on everyone but his own children.
What’s the bigger picture here, in your opinion? What did this do to Sedaris’ view of life, of himself?
In my opinion it turned him into a person who craves attention, which he does through his writing, and at the expense of those in his stories.
I agree with attention, not so much “at the expense”… Why? Because I think this is his way of praising those characters.
I love to read in a distraction free zone, somewhere peaceful, where I can read freely and let my imagination take over. Maybe with a good cup of coffee or glass of wine if the mood fits. lol
Of course!
I really don’t have any reading methods, I just sit down any where and get my mind focus.
My reading method is that I read it really fast trough the first time and than I read it again!
Try slowing down!
After reading a small section of the chapters assign, I’ll stop and analyze what it was I had just read ( I’ll normally do this just before bed), then, I might write down one or two notes about the section such as: vocabulary (words I didn’t quite understand the meaning of), questions, or rewriting the section in my own words for comprehension of the text.
Good!
Hope you feel better!!
My reading method? I don’t know if I have a method exactly but I am more of slow reader as to grasp all the things in the text and understand it better.
That’s a method! Cheers!
I have to read alone in a silent room, just for the fact that i get distracted easily, I also like to highlight and bookmark things.
My day today was different than usual. I have unfortunately been sick for almost a week so I’ve just been taking it easy, talking to my doctor and picking up medicine which is not fun at all but I guess you can say its giving me something to do rather than just be stuck at home with nothing going on like it has for the past couple months. Overall my day is going well, I’m starting to feel better (don’t worry, not covid guys! lol) and am looking forward to tonights discussions for this class, they’re always so fun and interesting!
Hope you feel better!
I think Sedaris is one of the easiest authors to read because of the way the essays are broken up it makes it easier to wrap your head around what he’s saying and what he wants you to understand from his words. Also it has to be 100% quiet for me to read and actually comprehend the things that I am reading.
For me reading is hard. I have to stop for a while think of what I read. After i continue and keep reading aloud and repeating to myself what i just read.
Good to take your time, and not rush. And if takes longer and that helps, then that’s what you do!
I would say my reading method is when I see something that interests me I write it down. If I am confused by a concept a read again.
When I was reading David Sedaris book I felt it very interesting. My reading methods where, first I had to read the paragraphs then I went back and write notes on what I just read in the paragraph.
That’s a good approach because you get an idea of what to write down for when you read it a second time
My reading methods are finding a quiet place to read. I can’t with too many noises because I will lose my place and reread paragraphs without knowing. I also like to take reading notes in the margins of my books. If I cant write in my book I use color sticky tabs and numbers and use binder paper to put notes down and highlight them the corresponding color and number so that I can look back at examples and text that I really like or questions that I had.
I never really paid attention to my method of reading but, i know i definitely don’t like having any distractions because then i cant really take in what i’m reading. for instance will reading this passed week i just sat in my bed with my room door closed and i was able to focus just fine
When I read, I usually like highlighting or writing down notes. This helps me understand concepts better or just simply remembering the important points.
That’s a great approach, Claudia.
A note for your notes….. Everyone has a reading method, or methods. You just may not have thought you did, before.
OMG i love How he tells his essays, he makes his chapters so much fun and interesting. It makes you want to read more. Reading his essays was interesting, he tells his feelings and specifics in a way you can understand where he is coming from. He is such an amazing story teller, he has the ability to reel you in.
Any quotes that stood out to you? How do you characterize your feelings toward his writing?
Yes! “Did I see a diploma on his wall? Could “Doctor” possibly be the man’s first name?” He had me cracking up lol When I read the essays I felt as if he was my friend telling me a story lol I caught myself smiling and laughing a lot!
So glad you’re enjoying!! So much to learn from that humor. It’s not just humor for the sake of laughs…. Very interesting man, Mr. Sedaris.
Yes one. Instead of fishing it out and getting my hands dirty, I left my wife and kid and moved to where I live now.
For my reading methods, it first starts with finding a space where I am comfortable and there is silence, or else I will get distracted. Aside from that, more brain work speaking, I try to picture everything that I read in my head, like if it were a movie. I don’t stop much to analyze what I just read, unless it was something I felt the need to highlight so that I can go back to it, but I pretty much just keep going. Then after I had read as much as I could, that’s when I stop and think about all I had just read and how it made me feel or what the author was trying to get across.
He really is but it’s the type that makes you want to learn more. Like I said he has a way of drawing you in. He’s excellent!
A note for your notes….. There’s more love in Sedaris’ writing than you may at first recognize.
That is what I saw at first because that is how I grew up in my family
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Well I hope I find some (love) because I am not seeing it right now. After the first four essays I like him less then when we researched him.
Give him a chance, Michael. And if nothing else, log and journal observations for the sake of this class and assignments. It will help. Whether you “like” him or not is NOT the point.
I won’t give up, there is part of me that sees some of the things he says are probably meant to be funny and that it is just not the type of comedy I enjoy.
My man! Much appreciated. Enjoy… 🙂
If you need a quiet room, that is a method!
I definitely need a quiet place or sometimes I read with my classical music in the background.
If you’re a more perceptive reader in early hours or latter …. that IS a method!
If you highlight the text in multiple f/cking colors, that is definitively a method.
Where y’all at????
I like Sedaris. He reminds me of myself and how I see things and just see how much familiar we put our experience into what we just saw.
Sedaris has me seeing family, myself, and moments that I would otherwise ignore with more respect and admiration… More LOVE.
Honestly, my method of reading depends on the book, an easy read, by easy I mean it has more a storyline not as focused on factual information, I can read anywhere, in bed with BF watching tv, in the car with the radio on, outside around a campfire while everyone is chattering, etc. But when it comes to books you have to actually truly comprehend what you’re reading, such as The Sociopath Next Door, or a textbook reading, I prefer a quiet comfy spot. With that being said, I can also read those more comprehensive books in the setting of my easier reads, It just takes me a little bit longer because I might have to reread things to ensure I understand it fully.
I can also read first thing in the am as well as late at night, or in the smack middle of the day. I prefer all three equally.
In “Think Differenter”, a reader can only appreciate his love of the essay form, and how a writer can accomplish so much in such little time.
Reading Sedaris’s humor today was interesting, It really made me think about what he was saying. I think that his tone is a little sarcastic throughout most of his writing. He is a very straight forward writer, he just likes poking fun at certain phrases and situations, He definitely is an amusing writer.
Poking fun, or a different form of praise?