Friday, November 6

At last....... FRIDAY! You have reached the end of Week 11, and you can access future weeks on the class calendar if you are working ahead in order to finish this class early. Congratulations on making it to Friday this week; just getting through each week is an accomplishment these days!

Class Procedures and Reminders

Stories for the randomizer. I'll update the randomizer to add in the new stories later today, so there will be lots of new stories in the randomizer for your Week 11 blog comments.

Project Stack. If you turned in a project on Sunday, you should have gotten comments back from me, and I'll reply to all the remaining Week 10 assignments in the stack, plus as many of the Week 11 projects as I can get to also. As always, you can check the stack to make sure I received your project.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. There's no Cane's chicken in the Myth-Folklore UnTextbook, but you can find Cane's in Sidney's story: Why Sophomores Never Eat Canes.

Twitter stream. Here's a fascinating article about trying to imagine stories from the distant past: hunter-heroines! Early big-game hunters of the Americas were female.

And some encouraging news about cultural repatriation: Pakistan receives 45 stolen relics from US.

Here's a dombra performance by Marzhan Kapsamat of Kazakhstan:

A dombra performance by Marzhan Kapsamat of Nursultan, Kazakhstan. The 23-year-old musician is playing in Lake Köbeituz, a salt lake in Kazakhstan that turns pink every several years. pic.twitter.com/qAnHqIXrAq

— Dust-to-Digital (@dusttodigital) November 5, 2020

I recently learned about a really cool Twitter hashtag #vss365 (very short stories all year long); here's a very short story:

Storybook. And on the subject of desiring sleep, here's a Storybook about Kumbhakarna: The Dreams of Kumbhakarna.

100-Word Stories. And a story about sleep: Nasruddin's Lullaby.

Laura Gibbs · 161. Nasruddin's Lullaby

A wonderful cartoon from Awkward Yeti with heart and brain:

Plus something beautiful from Grant Snider (larger view):

And something from Crash Course about trees:

November 6: Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment. Today is a United Nations observance of the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict, and you can find out more at the United Nations website: The environment has often remained the unpublicized victim of war. Water wells have been polluted, crops torched, forests cut down, soils poisoned, and animals killed to gain military advantage.

Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.