I don't remember seeing much on line about the last papal conclave. But today, I got back from my last class of the day, looked at effbee, and saw that someone had posted that there was a new pope, pulled up the BBC website, and saw the live announcement.
It's amazing, isn't it, that I could watch that from halfway around the world, with as much ease as anything.
I have the same sense of awe when I watch a bike race streaming (I pay for a subscription thingy).
Okay, back to grading.
(One last thing: I was surprised that I could sort of make out the basics of the Latin. And I liked that he spoke in Italian. That seemed friendly and pastoral, and I mean pastoral in a positive sense. And, I could get some of the Italian, too. Is that from a summer spent learning to read Italian, or from listening to bike races in Italian?)
It IS amazing. We have so many solutions and options at our fingertips!
ReplyDeleteFor instance, after your comment yesterday about Paradise Lost and Frankenstein, I started thinking that I really wished I had time to read PL alongside Frankenstein. But I just don't because of all the BS stuff I need to do like laundry, dishes, cleaning, etc., on top of my grading and reading. Then, I realized I could listen to an audio book of PL while cleaning, and TA-DA! Problem solved. I've listened to book 1 and 2, and I'm loving it.
When I was younger it might have been possible to go to a public library and get a book on tape of Paradise Lost, but then again, I'm not sure how many libraries would have had it. Now, I can Google "audio book Paradise Lost" and have it almost instantaneously. Amazing.
I know that I still need to sit down with the book at some point and annotate and really puzzle over the words, but for now, this is a very good solution for me. "Extra reading" is definitely a summer-time activity at this point.