<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Latest entries from revisionspiral.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 revisionspiral.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-10-27T04:45:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-09-07:links.412181539</id><title>thoughts on turning 40</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/thoughts_on_turning_40.htm"><![CDATA[I officially turned 40 in June, but my birthday party (combined with Amy&rsquo;s 50th birthday party) was last weekend, so I managed to not publicly turn 40 until August 29. Good trick, I&rsquo;d say. If I can pull this off for another few years I ma]]></content><dc:subject>change</dc:subject><dc:subject>death</dc:subject><dc:subject>divorce</dc:subject><dc:subject>me</dc:subject><dc:subject>reflection</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/thoughts_on_turning_40.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-09-07T00:47:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-07T00:47:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-05-28:links.412172262</id><title>Lily might be onto something</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/lily_might_be_onto_something.htm"><![CDATA[Me: What&rsquo;s in that glass in the fridge? Lily: Don&#39;t worry, it&#39;s not a butonic bomb*. It&#39;s&nbsp;a glue experiment. Me: Oh? Lily: Yeah, I&rsquo;m seeing if the stuff in the glass will turn into glue. Me: What&rsquo;s in the glass? Lil]]></content><dc:subject>lily</dc:subject><dc:subject>parenting</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/lily_might_be_onto_something.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-05-28T00:29:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-28T00:29:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-05-11:links.412169434</id><title>my favorite Billy Collins poem</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/my_favorite_billy_collins_poem.htm"><![CDATA[Victoria&#39;s Secret by Billy Collins The one in the upper-left-hand corner is giving me a look that says I know you are here and I have nothing better to do for the remainder of human time than return your persistent but engaging stare. She is wear]]></content><dc:subject>poetry</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/my_favorite_billy_collins_poem.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-05-11T03:26:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-11T03:26:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-05-07:links.412168846</id><title>why I am disgusted by Paris Hilton</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/why_i_am_disgusted_by_paris_hilton.htm"><![CDATA[From an msnbc.com story on a lawsuit involving Paris Hilton: She also acknowledges she&rsquo;d never seen her own cell phone bills until attorneys showed her one in an attempt to figure out who she was calling. Asked who gets her bills, she replied,]]></content><dc:subject>stupidity</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/why_i_am_disgusted_by_paris_hilton.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-05-07T14:26:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-07T14:26:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-05-07:links.412168711</id><title>end-of-the-semester student questions</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/endofthesemester_student_questions.htm"><![CDATA[Hi, I haven&rsquo;t been able to make it to class the last couple of weeks. Can you just tell me what I missed? I know you said we should do research and all for our projects, but mine is mostly opinion. Is that ok? I&rsquo;m really not good at proof]]></content><dc:subject>academia</dc:subject><dc:subject>students</dc:subject><dc:subject>teaching</dc:subject><dc:subject>whining</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/endofthesemester_student_questions.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-05-07T03:58:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-07T03:58:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-05-04:links.412168171</id><title>R.B.O.C. (what else a week before classes end?)</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/rboc_what_else_a_week_before_classes_end.htm"><![CDATA[I spent a ridiculous amount of time tonight listening to a few songs over and over tonight instead of writing up a classroom observation after I made a series of fatal errors. I went to St. Mark&rsquo;s, saw that there were no available tables and de]]></content><dc:subject>academia</dc:subject><dc:subject>beer</dc:subject><dc:subject>books</dc:subject><dc:subject>coffee</dc:subject><dc:subject>composition</dc:subject><dc:subject>feminism</dc:subject><dc:subject>music</dc:subject><dc:subject>newmedia</dc:subject><dc:subject>rboc</dc:subject><dc:subject>writing</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/rboc_what_else_a_week_before_classes_end.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-05-04T04:11:00Z</updated><published>2009-05-04T04:11:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-04-21:links.412165630</id><title>caught up</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/caught_up.htm"><![CDATA[One of my favorite ways to get caught up is to simply not do things. I&rsquo;m not footloose-and-fancy-free enough to not do the things that really must be done, but a lot of what must be done really doesn&rsquo;t have to be done. Case in point: read]]></content><dc:subject>timemanagement</dc:subject><dc:subject>blogs</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/caught_up.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-04-21T18:54:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-21T18:54:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-04-21:links.412165435</id><title>I am blogging not</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/i_am_blogging_not.htm"><![CDATA[When I get tired, the most common typing mistake I make is to write &ldquo;not&rdquo; when I mean &ldquo;now.&rdquo; I&rsquo;m sure I only catch it every now and then because I have a bad habit of not proofreading emails when I&rsquo;m tired. I was j]]></content><dc:subject>me</dc:subject><dc:subject>tiredness</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/i_am_blogging_not.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-04-21T01:17:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-21T01:17:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-04-17:links.412164768</id><title>slides from eLCC presentation on Web 2.0 in the Writing Center</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/slides_from_elcc_presentation_on_web_20_in_the_writing_cent.htm"><![CDATA[(Yeah, I know the link to the slides isn&#39;t working. I&#39;m on it.)]]></content><dc:subject>writingcenter</dc:subject><dc:subject>web20</dc:subject><dc:subject>facebook</dc:subject><dc:subject>twitter</dc:subject><dc:subject>delicious</dc:subject><dc:subject>elcc</dc:subject><dc:subject>conference</dc:subject><dc:subject>technology</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/slides_from_elcc_presentation_on_web_20_in_the_writing_cent.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-04-17T06:04:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-17T06:04:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-04-15:links.412164494</id><title>RBOC, extended March Madness edition</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/rboc_extended_march_madness_edition.htm"><![CDATA[My NPR name is Elizabaeth Santa Elena. You can create&nbsp;your own NPR name. As has been the tradition the last few years, March Madness continues into April. Why does spring semester feel crazier than fall? Is it actually crazier or am I just more]]></content><dc:subject>academia</dc:subject><dc:subject>elcc</dc:subject><dc:subject>telecoop</dc:subject><dc:subject>conference</dc:subject><dc:subject>gtd</dc:subject><dc:subject>blog</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/rboc_extended_march_madness_edition.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-04-15T23:57:00Z</updated><published>2009-04-15T23:57:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-03-30:links.412160865</id><title>a few of my favorite mash ups</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/a_few_of_my_favorite_mash_ups.htm"><![CDATA[In the name of work (I&rsquo;m prepping a class on parody and satire), I&rsquo;ve been watching mash ups on youtube for an hour or so. Some of my favorites: Christian Bale vs. Bill O&#39;Reilly Toy Story Requiem SuperFriends Bert &amp; Ernie Tries Ga]]></content><dc:subject>youtube</dc:subject><dc:subject>teaching</dc:subject><dc:subject>mashups</dc:subject><dc:subject>music</dc:subject><dc:subject>film</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/a_few_of_my_favorite_mash_ups.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-03-30T03:43:00Z</updated><published>2009-03-30T03:43:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-03-29:links.412160845</id><title>Metro State Writing Center now twittering</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/metro_state_writing_center_now_twittering.htm"><![CDATA[Inspired by the DePaul Writing Center twitter account, I just started a Metro State Writing Center twitter account. I plan to use the twitter account to keep followers (theoretical at this point) up to date on hours, new tutors, workshops, and appoin]]></content><dc:subject>writingcenter</dc:subject><dc:subject>technology</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/metro_state_writing_center_now_twittering.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-03-29T22:53:00Z</updated><published>2009-03-29T22:53:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-03-28:links.412160691</id><title>R.B.O.C. late March edition</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/rboc_late_march_edition.htm"><![CDATA[The new Facebook is not working for me. Yes, I&rsquo;m always resistant when Facebook makes changes, but this one is bothering me so much I&rsquo;m not even going to Facebook every five minutes like I used to. Which is a good thing, so maybe I should]]></content><dc:subject>academia</dc:subject><dc:subject>cccc</dc:subject><dc:subject>weather</dc:subject><dc:subject>rboc</dc:subject><dc:subject>cursing</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/rboc_late_march_edition.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-03-28T19:10:00Z</updated><published>2009-03-28T19:10:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-03-27:links.412160553</id><title>hot enough for you?</title><dc:subject>weather</dc:subject><dc:subject>funny</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/hot_enough_for_you.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-03-27T20:40:00Z</updated><published>2009-03-27T20:40:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-03-26:links.412160230</id><title>Mark Doty on setting things down</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/mark_doty_on_setting_things_down.htm"><![CDATA[Mark Doty read at Metro last week. Amy had been talking about him for a couple of years, having first heard him read at AWP a few years ago, so I knew I would probably like him. The week before his visit to Metro, I was at City Lights in San Francisc]]></content><dc:subject>buddhism</dc:subject><dc:subject>books</dc:subject><dc:subject>poetry</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/mark_doty_on_setting_things_down.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-03-26T05:18:00Z</updated><published>2009-03-26T05:18:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-03-25:links.412160053</id><title>two easy pieces</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/two_easy_pieces.htm"><![CDATA[As I was trying to catch up on my blog reading, I came across Aerobil&rsquo;s post on teaching Cheryl Strayed&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Love of My Life.&quot; I taught the piece (Aerobil calls it an essay, I call it a memoir) for the first time last week in]]></content><dc:subject>dfw</dc:subject><dc:subject>memoir</dc:subject><dc:subject>teaching</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/two_easy_pieces.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-03-25T05:43:00Z</updated><published>2009-03-25T05:43:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-03-18:links.412158994</id><title>photos of shipwrecks</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/photos_of_shipwrecks.htm"><![CDATA[I can&rsquo;t stop looking at these photos of abandoned ships off the cost of Mauritania.]]></content><dc:subject>photos</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/photos_of_shipwrecks.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-03-18T04:16:00Z</updated><published>2009-03-18T04:16:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-03-04:links.412156894</id><title>the difference between lying and bullshitting</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/the_difference_between_lying_and_bullshitting.htm"><![CDATA[From Harry G. Frankfurt&rsquo;s On Bullshit: . . . . The bullshitter may not deceive us, or even intend to do so, either about the facts or about what he takes the facts to be. What he does necessarily attempt to deceive us about is his enterprise. H]]></content><dc:subject>bullshit</dc:subject><dc:subject>composition</dc:subject><dc:subject>rhetoric</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/the_difference_between_lying_and_bullshitting.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-03-04T04:40:00Z</updated><published>2009-03-04T04:40:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-02-28:links.412156398</id><title>RBOC, late Feb. edition</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/rboc_late_feb_edition.htm"><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s been a busy two weeks since I last posted. Amy and I completely reworked the student introduction and a chapter of our book, which involved about 10 days of banging our heads against all available hard surfaces, a moment of inspiration, an]]></content><dc:subject>academia</dc:subject><dc:subject>cccc</dc:subject><dc:subject>conference</dc:subject><dc:subject>deadlines</dc:subject><dc:subject>rboc</dc:subject><dc:subject>revision</dc:subject><dc:subject>textbook</dc:subject><dc:subject>work</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/rboc_late_feb_edition.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-02-28T16:03:00Z</updated><published>2009-02-28T16:03:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-02-12:links.412153722</id><title>Valentine&apos;s Day from a kid&apos;s pespective</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/valentines_day_from_a_kids_pespective.htm"><![CDATA[I&rsquo;ll take a break from badmouthing Valentine&rsquo;s Day to tell this story. I was helping Lily make valentines for her classmates tonight and Lily said, &ldquo;Mom, how about if I tell you about the best things about each person as I write the]]></content><dc:subject>valentinesday</dc:subject><dc:subject>kids</dc:subject><dc:subject>lily</dc:subject><dc:subject>parenting</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/valentines_day_from_a_kids_pespective.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-02-12T04:55:00Z</updated><published>2009-02-12T04:55:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-02-10:links.412153199</id><title>Valentine’s Day rant, part 2 of 2</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/valentines_day_rant_part_2_of_2.htm"><![CDATA[Valentine&rsquo;s Day doesn&rsquo;t celebrate love as much as it celebrates co-dependency. Two people, one man and one woman, of course, who need each other. Fall apart without each other. Are incomplete without the other. Ick. Why is co-dependency s]]></content><dc:subject>valentinesday</dc:subject><dc:subject>whining</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/valentines_day_rant_part_2_of_2.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-02-10T05:32:00Z</updated><published>2009-02-10T05:32:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-02-09:links.412152909</id><title>organizing for annual reviews, etc.</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/organizing_for_annual_reviews_etc.htm"><![CDATA[Those ridiculous organizing skills I mentioned?&nbsp;Here are my secrets. Nothing too radical. I keep five files, one for each evaluation category (teaching, service, advising, professional development, reassigned time), and just drop things into the]]></content><dc:subject>academia</dc:subject><dc:subject>bureaucracy</dc:subject><dc:subject>deadlines</dc:subject><dc:subject>gtd</dc:subject><dc:subject>organization</dc:subject><dc:subject>organizing</dc:subject><dc:subject>technology</dc:subject><dc:subject>work</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/organizing_for_annual_reviews_etc.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-02-09T05:12:00Z</updated><published>2009-02-09T05:12:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-02-08:links.412152680</id><title>Lily earns a high orange belt</title><dc:subject>lily</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/lily_earns_a_high_orange_belt.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-02-08T06:23:00Z</updated><published>2009-02-08T06:23:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-02-08:links.412152677</id><title>Valentine&apos;s Day rant, part 1 of 2 (possibly 3)</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/valentines_day_rant_part_1_of_2_possibly_3.htm"><![CDATA[When I was a kid and I got Valentine&rsquo;s Day cards from my parents and friends, I thought it was a perfectly fine holiday. In my opinion, any day that highlighted chocolate had to be a good day. But once I got old enough to realize that Valentine]]></content><dc:subject>glbt</dc:subject><dc:subject>holidays</dc:subject><dc:subject>film</dc:subject><dc:subject>feminism</dc:subject><dc:subject>valentinesday</dc:subject><dc:subject>whining</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/valentines_day_rant_part_1_of_2_possibly_3.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-02-08T05:33:00Z</updated><published>2009-02-08T05:33:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:revisionspiral.blog-city.com,2009-02-06:links.412152262</id><title>things that irritated me today</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/things_that_irritated_me_today.htm"><![CDATA[Adults calling mothers &ldquo;mommies.&rdquo; Gross. The only person who can call me &ldquo;mommy&rdquo; is my daughter and she shouldn&rsquo;t do that for much longer. Pop-up-blocker-immune pop up windows. Grrrr. A telemarketer calling my classroom.]]></content><dc:subject>whining</dc:subject><dc:subject>parenting</dc:subject><dc:subject>technology</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com/things_that_irritated_me_today.htm"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</dc:creator><author><name>Elizabeth Kleinfeld</name></author><updated>2009-02-06T04:07:00Z</updated><published>2009-02-06T04:07:00Z</published></entry></feed>