URLS for Previous Post

 For some reason I couldn't publish changes I tried to post, so here it is as a separate e-mail:

I realize that I haven't summarized these, but here are the URLS, followed by more commentary about my Retention Deficit Disorder.

http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/N-Y-s-Cuomo-links-storm-climate-change-3998876.php

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-10-29/hurricane-sandy-threatens-20-billion-in-u-dot-s-dot-economic-damage

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2012/1031/Mexico-City-s-new-subway-line-to-cut-down-on-commute-pollution

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-30/world-wine-production-is-estimated-to-fall-6-1-this-year.html

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/place/article/SoMa-towers-paint-new-picture-of-S-F-3994496.php

http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-10-25/solar-energy-is-ready-dot-the-u-dot-s-dot-isnt

http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Tahoe-project-to-eliminate-Asian-clams-3995026.php

http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Schools-missing-mark-on-drinking-water-3987171.php

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Palms-cause-rough-ride-on-Market-Street-3997430.php

http://www.earthweek.com/

Now  I need to comment on the weird wiring of my brain.  In the thirty-six years I've taken post graduate courses--in my major of linguistics or outside my field--I've always gotten A's.  Sometimes I've taken undergraduate courses at CCSF, and I've gotten A's in those too, as you'd assume.   Even if I've taken courses for credit/no credit, I've studied and made A's on my tests.  But here I am, taking a course with students in their first two years of college, and in the course on environmental science, which I love, I've studied, but I haven't made A's on the two tests.  I took the second one yesterday, and I feel embarrassed about how I did.  But that reminded me of being an undergraduate, when I did well in esoteric courses like Philosophy, which other students found hard, and kind of struggled over General Health, which most students regarded as "a Mickey Mouse course" because it was so easy.  Bio 31, the course in environmental science, isn't Mickey Mouse, but considering the teacher's passion, my interest, and the amount of time I spend reading and studying, I should be doing better on tests--like I should know the answers!

Interesting!

I'm going to try to be more understanding of my own students, who sometimes make me wonder, "How could they have missed that?" 

Observations for my log:  Yesterday  my tenant left me the rent check inside an envelope I'd addressed to him earlier, recycling it like an inter-office envelope.  I told him I'd brag about his re-using!