Mother Antonia: had lunch with a friend who went to St. Kate’s and talked with her about her experience. Everything Looks Like A Face: exchanged Draft comments with Elizabeth. Erika: watched video & did problems on Khan Academy. I’m 15 skills away from the Sally Ride badge. Will I gain anything tangible from acquiring this...
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be sure of your aim
Everything Looks Like a Face: Made an outline, worked on interleaving two scenes. Mother Antonia: Looked at some of the Antonia McHugh materials CSC has online. Here’s a speech of hers on educational practice. In her own words: One who undertakes the leadership of young women in a private college today, must be sure of...
pageants, enlightening and otherwise
Mother Antonia: Reading S. Teresa Toomey’s Chapters for a History of the College of St. Catherine St. Paul Minnesota. She discusses S. Antonia’s encouragement of outdoor pageants. “Perhaps she was moved thereto by the widely acclaimed annual pageants at Carleton College.” Some of these pageants were “not very enlightening as to their meaning.” Everything Looks...
forging ahead
Everything Looks Like A Face: worked on getting stuff into Draft, the collaboration tool we are using. Revised; forged ahead a little bit. Erika: Did problems on Khan Academy. Considered titling this post “f'(x) > 0 (but only just)”.
nothin’
Nothin’ but day job.
more tug-of-war
Everything Looks Like A Face: Rewrote the tug-of-war scene, drafted the talking-to-the-backs scene. Had a good meeting with Elizabeth; got to hear some of the tunes she is exploring.
ice-peaks of intellectual conceit
Mother Antonia: Morning at the CSJ archives. Afternoon at the St. Catherine University archives. A few of the maxims hand-written on the flyleaf of Sister Antonia’s copy of The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis: God’s world is beautiful only men mar it so foully. Diffidence in self begets reverence for others. Humility makes...
local maximum
The Last Game: Email from Emily to let me know that her theatre students have been reading the script and will be giving me feedback. Way cool. Erika: Did problems on Khan Academy. Got the first 5 problems right, which is rare for me in the Calculus section. So no Persistence badge today, but I’m...
unspeakable!
Mother Antonia: Taking more notes from Ryan & Wolkerstorfer. When the first boarders arrived at the college, there weren’t enough sheets for all their beds, so a group of sisters sat up all night sewing sheets out of unbleached muslin. “Unbleached, oh, it was unspeakable!” I’m now thinking perhaps the monologue should begin not with...
relishing
Everything Looks Like a Face: Email exchange with Elizabeth. Mother Antonia: finished organizing notes from my first trip to the CSJ archives. Started taking notes from Rosalie Ryan & John Christine Wolkerstorfer’s More Than A Dream: Eighty-five years at the College of St. Catherine. This-here was my first inkling of what to expect from M....