Learning Challenge: Deskercises

I read about some desksercises, and I am so happy I did. I have to sit a lot. I am a student and I work at a circulation desk in a library. It is weird how tiring and draining just sitting can be. I tried some shoulder and neck stretches, as well as some arm stretches. I think these are the two I will keep doing the most. I also enjoyed doing some back workouts. Seriously, there isn't much support in any of the chairs on campus, so my back starts to kill me after a while.

Stretching from Pexels

Tech Tip: Canvas Profile

So, perhaps you are like me and have never bothered to mess with your Canvas profile. Today I went ahead and did some updating on it. I uploaded a picture of myself for the first time. I also created a bibliography for myself. If I had a personal website, I might have uploaded it, but this is my only site. Please don't blame me for not wanting to connect it to my canvas for classmates across all classes to see. Either way, this was a pretty easy little thing to do. I personally believe everyone should at least upload a photo so it is easier to look up classmates.

Reading Notes: Lang's European Fairy Tales I Part A

Woods Nymphs from Wikimedia

The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened

• A boy who was only happy when he had superior knowledge, basically
• Can talk to birds and beasts
• Much happens at night that humans don't see
• Keeps looking for a wizard to open his eyes to the unseeable
• One wizard warns him that this knowledge is useless and will only bring him pain
• One every 7 years, a serpent king hosts a feast. The boy must dip some bread in the serpent king's goat milk and eat it. This will open his eyes.
• Successfully does this, but has a weird and violent dream. Now that he has awoken, he wants to go check out his new.. night vision so to speak.
• He watched wood nymphs.
• He was only able to see them that one night, which made him sick for longing to see them again.
• "Blindness is man's highest good."

Bibliography

The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened from Lang's European Fairy Tales I

Reading Notes: Brothers Grimm (Librivox) Part B

Honey Bee from Pixabay

The Queen Bee

• Two princes went out into the world to find riches but instead started living like fools and couldn't go home.
• Little brother, a dwarf, went to find them.
• The brothers didn't want his help and laughed at him. Nevertheless, the set out for the journey back home.
• The little brother keeps the older brothers from terrorizing some ants.
• The little brother keeps the older brothers from roasting two ducks.
• The little brother keeps the older brothers from stealing the bees' honey.
• Found a castle with some weird stuff going on (everything was turned to marble). Find a man.
• The man gave them food and stuff but didn't say anything.
• The little man basically tells the oldest brother he can have riches if he finds all these pearls, but if one is still lost at sunset, he will be turned to marble.
• Same situation with the second oldest brother.
• When it came to the dwarfs turn, all the animals he saved helped him find the pearls, plus the extra riches he had to subsequently find.
• Dwarf succeeds and breaks the spell, turning all those who were marble back into living beings. The dwarf married the youngest princess of the man of that castle. The other brothers married the sisters.

Bibliography

The Queen Bee from Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm

Reading Notes: Brothers Grimm (Librivox) Part A

Rapunzelturm from Wikimedia

Rapunzel

• Man and woman are unable to have children.
• Woman starts to crave the rapunzel she saw in the enchantresses garden.
• Husband stole her some to satisfy those cravings, deciding to pay whatever cost.
• She loved the rapunzel so much, she had her husband steal some more.
• Enchantress catches him and is very angry, until she hears his explanation. 
• Enchantress uses this as an opportunity to make a deal; their baby for her rapunzel.
• The woman has a child and the enchantress takes it.
• The child was named Rapunzel, after the food that had been stolen from the enchantress.
• She was shut into a tower when she was twelve, one she couldn't escape. Only the enchantress could enter by climbing the girls long hair.
• After years passed, the King's son heard her singing and became curious.
• After witnessing the enchantress climb Rapunzel's hair, he decided he too would climb her hair.
• Rapunzel was frightened by him, but he was a charmer. He proposed to her almost instantly, to which she said yes.
• She doesn't know how to escape the tower and convinces him to bring her some silk so she can make a ladder (rope?).
• The enchantress was angry when she found out that Rapunzel had pulled the prince up into her tower. In that anger, she cut Rapunzel's hair and relocated her to a desert.
• Enchantress used Rapunzel's cut off hair to pull the prince into the tower, who she then blinded with birds.
• Because of his blindness, he began to roman around for years.
• The prince eventually found Rapunzel. She cried tears that healed his eyes and they lived happily ever after.

Bibliography

Rapunzel from Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm