Comments for The Mud Pit http://shauser.umwblogs.org Making A Mess Of Life and Learning Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:58:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 Comment on This Is My Page by ripleedelamancha http://shauser.umwblogs.org/this-is-my-page/#comment-191 ripleedelamancha Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:11:31 +0000 http://shauser.umwblogs.org/?page_id=45#comment-191 It is a nifty page :) haha But yeah...CSI: is most definitely the best show on the planet lol...I've been watching it forever and I own every season! I've looked at the forums before, but I actually don't participate in them...though sometimes I think I should haha...I still can't believe what happened to Warrick and that it looks like Grissom will be leaving the show (so I've heard)...it's a bummer! It is a nifty page :) haha
But yeah…CSI: is most definitely the best show on the planet lol…I’ve been watching it forever and I own every season! I’ve looked at the forums before, but I actually don’t participate in them…though sometimes I think I should haha…I still can’t believe what happened to Warrick and that it looks like Grissom will be leaving the show (so I’ve heard)…it’s a bummer!

]]> Comment on This One Goes Out to the History Majors by kwuyscik http://shauser.umwblogs.org/2008/09/29/this-one-goes-out-to-the-history-majors/#comment-131 kwuyscik Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:13:50 +0000 http://shauser.umwblogs.org/?p=53#comment-131 I saw that! I couldn't stop laughing when I read it but there just seems to be so much truth to it. I saw that! I couldn’t stop laughing when I read it but there just seems to be so much truth to it.

]]> Comment on Recreation of Memory by Steve http://shauser.umwblogs.org/2008/08/29/recreation-of-memory/#comment-107 Steve Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:58:00 +0000 http://shauser.umwblogs.org/?p=49#comment-107 Perhaps the effect you describe comes from uncritical viewing of films. What if while you were watching the film, you were constantly thinking about how the film portrayal diverged from your understanding of the event? Might that not weaken the effect? Perhaps the effect you describe comes from uncritical viewing of films. What if while you were watching the film, you were constantly thinking about how the film portrayal diverged from your understanding of the event? Might that not weaken the effect?

]]> Comment on Recreation of Memory by Missak http://shauser.umwblogs.org/2008/08/29/recreation-of-memory/#comment-105 Missak Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:33:38 +0000 http://shauser.umwblogs.org/?p=49#comment-105 Wow, that's some deep stuff. I always thought that our minds worked like the cabinet, but I see what you mean, how when remembering things our memories are skewed. Since you're a history major, it's probably relevant to point out that all historians skew history, not necessarily because they remember it differently, but because they interpret it differently. For example, the movie Birth of a Nation is just a few people's interpretation of the past, rather than what actually happened, which is similar, I suppose to how our minds work when we remember things. P.S. I'm sorry to say that I've never seen CSI. You may be right about those fans being hard to come by. I've never met a CSI fan either. Wow, that’s some deep stuff. I always thought that our minds worked like the cabinet, but I see what you mean, how when remembering things our memories are skewed. Since you’re a history major, it’s probably relevant to point out that all historians skew history, not necessarily because they remember it differently, but because they interpret it differently. For example, the movie Birth of a Nation is just a few people’s interpretation of the past, rather than what actually happened, which is similar, I suppose to how our minds work when we remember things.

P.S. I’m sorry to say that I’ve never seen CSI. You may be right about those fans being hard to come by. I’ve never met a CSI fan either.

]]> Comment on Recreation of Memory by Cynthia Lotze http://shauser.umwblogs.org/2008/08/29/recreation-of-memory/#comment-104 Cynthia Lotze Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:09:29 +0000 http://shauser.umwblogs.org/?p=49#comment-104 so i was talking to a student yesterday about exactly this! she (the student) is a painter and is in the middle of a project spurred on by her thinking about cultural memory. she wants to do a paper on it and so we were thinking about how collectively held memory is so much more about the emotional result of an event than the facts ("facts") of the event itself. like your mother remembers vividly the one small element of something you and she experienced together, but you remember that specific thing to which she has attached this memory not AT ALL. it doesn't even figure in your memory of this moment you both think you share. and you do share it, but SO differently! this is awesome. this is poetry. thanks for the link, shannon. i hope you're doing great. (oh! and i also got a kick out of hearing faulkner's voice. thanks!) so i was talking to a student yesterday about exactly this! she (the student) is a painter and is in the middle of a project spurred on by her thinking about cultural memory. she wants to do a paper on it and so we were thinking about how collectively held memory is so much more about the emotional result of an event than the facts (”facts”) of the event itself. like your mother remembers vividly the one small element of something you and she experienced together, but you remember that specific thing to which she has attached this memory not AT ALL. it doesn’t even figure in your memory of this moment you both think you share. and you do share it, but SO differently! this is awesome. this is poetry. thanks for the link, shannon. i hope you’re doing great. (oh! and i also got a kick out of hearing faulkner’s voice. thanks!)

]]> Comment on Faulkner & Morrison by Faulkner and Morrison – UMW Blogs http://shauser.umwblogs.org/2008/08/26/faulkner-morrison/#comment-98 Faulkner and Morrison – UMW Blogs Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:16:08 +0000 http://shauser.umwblogs.org/?p=36#comment-98 [...] at the Mud Pit, Shannon Hauser has begun sharing her learning process again, and it is always a pleasure when she [...] [...] at the Mud Pit, Shannon Hauser has begun sharing her learning process again, and it is always a pleasure when she [...]

]]> Comment on Faulkner & Morrison by Reverend http://shauser.umwblogs.org/2008/08/26/faulkner-morrison/#comment-97 Reverend Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:41:38 +0000 http://shauser.umwblogs.org/?p=36#comment-97 Shannon, I have to say that Faulkner is for me the single greatest American artist. He is magic between two covers. And his Nobel Speech makes him that much more human and vulnerable. I took a class in undergraduate on Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and it was really fun, so I envy you. One more thing, Neo-Rev. You and I both know this is UMW Blogs, so how could you not embed the speech audio? Remember, UMW owns the internets now :) Thanks for this gem. Shannon,

I have to say that Faulkner is for me the single greatest American artist. He is magic between two covers. And his Nobel Speech makes him that much more human and vulnerable. I took a class in undergraduate on Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and it was really fun, so I envy you.

One more thing, Neo-Rev. You and I both know this is UMW Blogs, so how could you not embed the speech audio? Remember, UMW owns the internets now :)

Thanks for this gem.

]]> Comment on New Law by ripleedelamancha http://shauser.umwblogs.org/2008/08/26/new-law/#comment-96 ripleedelamancha Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:28:12 +0000 http://shauser.umwblogs.org/?p=33#comment-96 Thanks for the comment! I definitely know the mix of feelings you mentioned haha, I'm right there with you. I am in a 9am German class...so I suppose that's possible! Maybe we'll get to chat afterward sometime? Guten nacht! :) Thanks for the comment! I definitely know the mix of feelings you mentioned haha, I’m right there with you. I am in a 9am German class…so I suppose that’s possible! Maybe we’ll get to chat afterward sometime? Guten nacht! :)

]]> Comment on About Me by chels http://shauser.umwblogs.org/about/#comment-95 chels Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:07:01 +0000 #comment-95 Thanks for the comment about my "essay." It was an assignment for my Non-Fiction Creative Writing class. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the comment about my “essay.” It was an assignment for my Non-Fiction Creative Writing class. I’m glad you enjoyed it.

]]> Comment on Tech and Junk by ameye5hp http://shauser.umwblogs.org/2008/03/26/tech-and-junk/#comment-49 ameye5hp Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:14:12 +0000 http://shauser.umwblogs.org/2008/03/26/tech-and-junk/#comment-49 So when are we ordering said t-shirts? I think the class the other day was pretty enthusiastic. So when are we ordering said t-shirts? I think the class the other day was pretty enthusiastic.

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