{"id":1,"date":"2020-07-02T20:46:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T20:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tylerwilliam540\/?p=1"},"modified":"2020-07-02T13:58:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T20:58:18","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tylerwilliam540\/2020\/07\/02\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"This is my bag, baby."},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is my school bag, and up until recently I\u2019d leave the house with it almost every single day. If not to go to work, then to go to a coffee shop\u00a0to<\/em>\u00a0work. If it had an odometer the number would be high.<\/p>\n

Pictured we have, a DVI adapter cable, headphones, a phone charger, a plug for my laptop, my laptop, its case, my old school ring-bound planner \u2013 I record marks in there! There\u2019s a hairbrush, whiteout, a couple pencils and a pen, my orange folder where I keep kids\u2019 work for at home marking, a French grammar book and a French dictionary of prepositions. Plus of course the bag itself.<\/p>\n

I think what we have here really speaks to me being very much of my generation. I was born in 1982, so I don\u2019t quite fit with the millennials, but I\u2019m certainly not a Gen-Xer. I read a definition once though for cuspers\u00a0 such as myself:\u00a0XENNIAL<\/em>! It\u2019s for those of us who grew up analog but came of age digital \u2013 and that very well speaks to me. And I think the fact that I bought a book to use as a way to plan my days and to record my students\u2019 names and grades and seating positions in class speaks at least a little to who I am and\u00a0when<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0I\u2019m from.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Text technologies\u00a0\u00bb contained therein would certainly be the two books, but there\u2019s of course mountains of text in my computer too. And from the books one could certainly ascertain that I have some degree of bilingualism.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure that anything in here is \u00ab\u00a0private\u00a0\u00bb, but I\u2019m sure people could draw some conclusions about me based on my cool Apple sticker and felt & leather laptop sleeve and the fact that I carry a hair brush with me \u2013 but I\u2019ll leave that to anyone\u2019s imagination.<\/p>\n

15 years ago I maybe would have had a laptop in there, but 15 years ago I drove a forklift in a warehouse and was not a student and didn\u2019t have much need of a laptop. 25 years ago I was 13. I\u2019d have still had the pencils and pen and whiteout; I\u2019d have been doing a lot less marking though\u2026<\/p>\n

I think an archaeologist would find that this bag is exemplary of a pretty average person in the year 2020, who happens to speak some French.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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