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)”.
Tag: Studying
Conducting research and organizing material.
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....
tug of war, critical numbers
Everything Looks Like a Face: Wrote dialogue. Two characters have a tug of war; a third is being the one being tugged. Erika: Watched a Khan Academy video on Finding Critical Numbers.
narrating, differentiating
Everything Looks Like a Face: started writing a scene. Almost entirely stage directions, so far. Erika: Did problems on Khan Academy.
as predicted
Erika: did problems on Khan Academy. My manner of doing them earned me the Persistence badge, to give you some idea. Mother Antonia: got the notion that maybe the monologue should start with an invocation.
click!
Everything Looks Like A Face: Email exchange with Elizabeth about the characters and their jobs. One of them, we both feel strongly, is a glazier. It’s always exciting when something really clicks. Mother Antonia: Worked more on organizing notes. Did not know until starting this project that Percy Grainger knew some of the CSC faculty...
brainstorming, docketing
Infrastructure: Sent a script to a competition. Everything Looks Like a Face: Did some thinking about how the characters pay their bills. Mother Antonia: Organized some of my notes from Thursday.