Here's the Hiroshima video I wanted to show Friday but ran out of time for. Also, a warning -- we're due to discuss Ch. 5 on Tuesday, but Ch. 5 is much longer than the other chapters, so if you have a chance to get ahead over the weekend, I'd take it. 


Also, here's a piece on student slang and social boundaries from this morning's Times that I thought some of you might be interested in.

Everyone doing ok with the diigo signups? I've been approving folks who join the group at a regular clip; we have about 14 of the 24 of you now. If you run into problems, add a comment here and maybe someone knows the answer if I don't see it first. 

We ended our discussion about busyness today sort of in the middle. Anyone have any thoughts you didn't get to express? Are you really happy being as busy as you are? Is busyness our "art form, our way of being us" as Adam Gopnik says? Or would it really be better if our

-- Bring your copy of Writing Tools to class tomorrow if you think of it; it's on the assignment sheet, I believe, but I didn't mention it in class today.

-- Remember to write the graffiti story for tomorrow. I'll post the fact sheet