{"id":200,"date":"2008-01-15T00:15:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T07:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/01\/15\/the-task-at-hand\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T19:09:27","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T02:09:27","slug":"the-task-at-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/01\/15\/the-task-at-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"The Task at Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have decided to sit in on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.sfu.ca\/~ted\/\">Ted<\/a>&#8216;s writing course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.sfu.ca\/CC\/376\/ted\/376-08-1\/\">CMPT 376<\/a>.  This is the first time the course has been offered.  I would like to be the kind of person that can teach a course like this, and this seems like a good way.<\/p>\n<p>Notice the careful wording in the last sentence.  It didn&#8217;t say &#8220;I&#8217;d like to teach this course in the future.&#8221;  That&#8217;s a stronger statement that I&#8217;m just not willing to make yet.<\/p>\n<p>After one lecture, I have learned one important thing: CMPT 376 is like Burning Man.  There are no spectators, only participants.  My plan all along was to participate in lectures, so I&#8217;m not too worried there.<\/p>\n<p>The work I had planned on ignoring was the writing exercise for each class.  (Thrice-weekly?  Lecturly?  There needs to be a word for that.)  But, after a lecture, I have decided to give it the old college-try.  But, there&#8217;s not much point in printing out what I write and giving it to Ted.  I don&#8217;t need the marks.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m going to try to post here three times a week, approximately on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.  My own version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fussy.org\/nablopomo.html\">NaBloPoMo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Like everything else in 376, I make no promises about making it all the way to the end of the semester.  Some of the posts may lack my usual wit and sparkle, in favour of volume, but you&#8217;ll deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have decided to sit in on Ted&#8216;s writing course, CMPT 376. This is the first time the course has been offered. I would like to be the kind of person that can teach a course like this, and this seems like a good way. Notice the careful wording in the last sentence. It didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}