August 03, 2005
Smallville, Iowa
I know that I mentioned this yesterday, but I have to reiterate just how much Walker, Iowa reminds me of Smallville, Kansas. This is probably most due to the fact that I am having my first experience in a small midwestern town and I have nothing else this close to my senses to compare Smallville to. It is also probably due to the fact that I am surrounded by an excessive amount of corn. Either way, my desire to be like Superman (a long, unfulfilled wish) has never been stronger.
While on the subject of Superman, let me draw the reader's attention to an exciting website which includes 20 online video blogs by Bryan Singer taking the viewer on some impressive tours behind the making of the highly aniticipated Superman Returns. I really think Superman is on the road to a major comeback in the cultural consciousness after this movie, if he isnt already with the success of Smallville and a resurgence in the success of his comics.
But on the subject of wishing I was like Superman, I just wanted to say that I would settle for not being able to fly, see through walls, or heat up my coffee with heat vision if I could somehow miraculously learn how to prepare lesson plans, design curriculum, and mold accurate and effective methods of assessment within the next two weeks without any formal training in education whatsoever.
I was saying to someone last night that if my life were an eighties movie (oh, if it were only so) then all I would need at this point was some kind of eighties montage right before classes start in which I am seen reading books, typing on my computer, and running through the Iowa cornfields while some song like "The Final Countdown" was playing in the background. If only.
Well Cono's inservice is giving me a lot of ideas but I am also overwhelmed with inadequacy. My lack of preparation is my kryptonite.
Appreciate the prayers.
Todd Willison
Posted by todd at August 3, 2005 06:15 PM