I werk today

I have the whole day to myself. lets see how much I get done. will check in later.

nothin to very little

got Walden II today, traded it for three bags of produce I grew in the garden. I wonder what B.F.Skinner would have thought about that.



The coop is taking most of my time. and I haven't told you about working for the Business Lobby yet. I will be the head dorm counselor for the Idaho Business Week at the Northwest Nazarene University meeting of the Idaho Business Week indoctrination of Capitalism for IACI; the said business lobby of the Idaho Legislature. have I told you that I consider myself an anarcho-communist? that'll be some bloggin'.



hopefully one week working for capitalists will completely fund the attic expansion. my office in the sky.



I had to order a new mother board and processor - haven't put em in yet. still need to build trellises for the melons and beans first. not to mention the mountain of reading.



well I love you all,

ciao

bk

back from the brask (neb-a)

a one week reunion with the famdamly. very good at reminding me who I really am. who I was and thus more into who I will.



my cousin is a systems tech for Apple now. gets all the new shit first so as to support it for the sales reps throughout Indiana, Michigan,  Illinois, and one more that I can't remember. Most importantly he gets a 15% friends and family discount! An 8 gig nano for the price of 4.





Didn't get enough reading done so still have a mountain of books to mine  - as well as a meeting with Brad to accomplish this week.



Will let you know tomorrow how far I got today.



bk

so now... READ

 Goin' to Nebraska for the week  - gunna go see my cousins growing up strong on soil of the farm

While we Idaho mountain folk grow even stronger out West on the rocks of the mountains...



I plan on reading a pile,

to be more specific...



 - a college textbook on learning theories which I will use to read about behaviorism called Human Learning it's in its third edition and it's by Jeanne Ormrod


 - A selection by Adler and Dewey, Experience and Education by Dewey and A Guide to Learning by Adler


 - Science of Education and the Psychology of the Child by Piaget


 - Multiple Intellegences, The Theory in Practice by Gardner


 - The Archeology of Knowledge by Foucault, and

 -
Utopia Or Oblivion by R. Buckminster Fuller



After that its right on to the paper.



I am a little confused about the assignment to "conduct community interviews and create a community issue outline"... what do you think? I am thinking this will be a good tool to focus the paper. I will interview Dana, Shapiro, and Brad as "experts," and then a few local yoculs downtown for the broader perspective.



Right so on to some reading... I gots to get packin before too late as well

ciao,

bk

okay so the damn computer still isn't working

and not for lack of trying! damn... I guess I need to send the shit back in - at least the motherboard, maybe its the processor though. right so that's been a part of my thought processes all week.



yesterday was my first real day off and so I found all the books for this and the next class. still need to get a bunch of articles as well as read everything, but that is the best thing about this coursework - I choose all of the literature - so I WANT to read it. I don't choose stuff I don't really want to read... well I choose few that I am not too excited about but it's stuff that I see as necessary .



Talked to Brad about mentoring the curriculum course and its a go. He's teaching a course on Dewey in like a month that I will probably audit like half of.



Here it is... my nose approaching my summer grindstone.

frustrrrrrations

well, girlfriend noted today that I have the tendancy to put my education last - that I always say I'll do it after the yard work, after work work, errands, you name it - and she's right.



This school was going to be different, and it is different no shitty professors or classmates to blame, it is different, but I am not... not yet.



I got my computer and haven't had time to put it together - well I made time for that and... they warned me "don't put your own computer together Ben, if you mess it up it will all be for naught... NAUGHT!" I can't get a video image out of it, nothing, no BIOS, no CMOS, NOTHING! so now I got the whole they told you so complex goin' on.



This has been a goal of mine for many a year, put linux on a home brewed machine and Ubuntu was going to let me do it - finally a supported distro that I would feel okay about using for everything I wanted to do and then a whole lot more. I am sure I got everything in there right... I am afraid that the motherboard is just bad and I'll have to wait to ship it back.



and its hot, very hot... I wish to wallow in mud and sip icy lemonade, nothing else, buuuuuuut I get to go to the second job in an hour. which to say since I work at the Boise co-op is like watching rich people (pigs) do just that, except they pay out the ass for the mud, and instead of just buying lemons and sugar, their bottle has a fancy label.



oh yeah... skool werk. well I do need some help finding some books. Tonight... yeah tonight... after watching pigs drink fancy(expensive) lemonade all night.



lets see if I can cross any of those to-dos tonight, eh, shall we?

bk

been too busy to post, or to do any work. tomorrow. don't have to work until 4 tomorrow. I'll tell you all about it then.
bk