Hmmm...I guess there are worse things for which to be remembered. I imagine that taken out of context, some of the things I say sound pretty goofy. OK, even taken within context they sound goofy... I hope your son made it home OK. It's not surviving childhood that amazes me, it's surviving parenthood.
Happy, Merry Whatever. Carol Carol L. DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Psychology St. Ambrose University 518 West Locust Street Davenport, Iowa 52803 Phone: 563-333-6482 e-mail: [email protected] web: http://web.sau.edu/psychology/psychfaculty/cdevolder.htm The contents of this message are confidential and may not be shared with anyone without permission of the sender. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Mon 12/22/2008 11:51 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Happy Winter Solstice! OK. I can't believe I am burning my last post of the day on silly trivium! ANYTHING seems better than grading papers. Carol, I am going to keep this quote on my wall forever: "I am lousy at smacking the penguin, but possibly because I haven't been using a mouse." It took me 5 minutes to get up off the floor where I have been rolling around in glee. I won't gloat and suggest you all watch the Chargers/Broncos game this next weekend when we are forecast to have "chamber of commerce" weather because indeed we've really had our share of relatively bad weather this winter already. My youngest is driving back from Vegas today and I am nervous as a cat (how nervous do they get anyway?) because the passes are all getting snow and he has no snow tires or chains with him and if it's raining in LA right now I know it's snowing in the passes, and he's still sleeping off last night. Sigh. How do we make to adulthood? Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 [email protected] ---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:55:15 -0600 >From: "DeVolder Carol L" <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: [tips] Happy Winter Solstice! >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> > >I have been enjoying these posts very much, because I have been kept in my house by bitter cold, and you all have been my entertainment. I just want to point out that, even though the sun is shining today, it is so cold that the local FFA canceled its ski trip. A bunch of farm kids thought it was too cold to go outside??? That's cold. > >Stephen, I am quite impressed by your multi-talented wife. She is quite the renaissance person. > >And I am lousy at smacking the penguin, but possibly because I haven't been using a mouse (that's my excuse). > >Carol > > > >---- Original message ---- >>Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:46:59 -0500 >>From: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: [tips] Happy Winter Solstice! >>To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" ><[email protected]> >> >>I resisted my own contribution to this thread but can hold off no longer. >>Some observations on the winter solstice: >> >>1) As an inhabitant of the frozen Land Where the Nights are Long, I also >>harbour a profound reverence for the point at which the sun begins to >>return to our cold, cold land. In celebration, I have my hair cut on the >>solstice (by my wife, taking time off from translating letters on TIPS). >>In general, I have my haircut each time and only when the sun crosses a >>solstice or equinox, thus demonstrating that my hair growth is >>synchronized with the rhythm of the cosmos. It also demonstrates that >>this is too long a period to go between haircuts. And it may be that it >>is my haircuts which cause the sun to return. >> >>2) I think the main reason for appreciation of the solstice is that >>people take it as indicating the point at which the day begins to last >>just a little bit longer than the day before. But in fact, this point is >>reached about a week before the solstice. At the latitude where I live, >>between December 4 and December 15th of this year the sun set at 4:11 >>p.m. But on December 16, it set at 4:12 p.m. By the solstice yesterday, >>around here we already had gained a full three minutes of daylight at the >>end of the day. And I enjoyed every minute of it. >> >>3) I have to register my protest against the designation of December 21 >>as "the first official day of winter", as we are repetitively told by the >>media. That may be true when defined in astronomical terms, but in normal >>and historical usage, "winter" refers to the three coldest months of the >>year which, in the Northern hemisphere, are December, January, and >>February. In fact, December 22 (sometimes December 25) has historically >>been called "midwinter's day" (and June 21 (or 24) is "midsummer's day"). >>How can winter have just begun if it's already midwinter? >> >>Stephen >> >>----------------------------------------------------------- - >----- >>Stephen L. 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