Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Major in relaxing!
We noticed yesterday evening that in the nice glossy photograph of one of our profs. lecturing to a fancy big lecture hall on the cover of the new propaganda brochure for our major, there's a student apparently sleeping in the front row of said lecture hall.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Touch the future
first day of class
student: My adviser just signed me up for this class, so I do not have the readings.
me: Oh, OK. Your adviser signed you up? Are you interested in the class?
student: Uh, yeah. I asked her to sign me up for a "modern" class.
(note: "modern [discipline unspecified]" is kind of broad.)
next class
(same) student absent.
next class
(same) student: Professor, I downloaded the books for the class onto my I Pad, so if you see me looking at my computer during class for a long time, that is why.
(note: I have banned computers in my class.)
me: Your I Pod? That is not a good way to read the books.
student: No, my I Pad! These are the new times, I downloaded the books.
me: Uh, which book? We did not read any books for today. We read articles.
student: Uhm.
me: Do you mean [name of textbook]?
student: I don't know. My mom downloaded them for me.
student: My adviser just signed me up for this class, so I do not have the readings.
me: Oh, OK. Your adviser signed you up? Are you interested in the class?
student: Uh, yeah. I asked her to sign me up for a "modern" class.
(note: "modern [discipline unspecified]" is kind of broad.)
next class
(same) student absent.
next class
(same) student: Professor, I downloaded the books for the class onto my I Pad, so if you see me looking at my computer during class for a long time, that is why.
(note: I have banned computers in my class.)
me: Your I Pod? That is not a good way to read the books.
student: No, my I Pad! These are the new times, I downloaded the books.
me: Uh, which book? We did not read any books for today. We read articles.
student: Uhm.
me: Do you mean [name of textbook]?
student: I don't know. My mom downloaded them for me.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Revealed yesterday
Revealed yesterday (unrelated):
The pope is gay.
Humans have an innate longing for fur.
The pope is gay.
Humans have an innate longing for fur.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Jane Austen/Mitfords news
Mansfield Park kept me up until 2 am! It's crunching my heart into little pieces. I'm inspired to throw this out there to those of you who obsess about Jane Austen: is Mansfield Park her greatest novel? Because: I've never been so engrossed by a book that had 'so much to recommend against it'--uh, for one, lack of a single likable character.
By the way, come to think of people who might read this: When you said one of the Mitford sisters was an admirer of Hitler, I didn't realize you meant "she moved to Munich for four years and stalked Hitler, to the point of creeping him out."
By the way, come to think of people who might read this: When you said one of the Mitford sisters was an admirer of Hitler, I didn't realize you meant "she moved to Munich for four years and stalked Hitler, to the point of creeping him out."
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Shoot
Shoot, I have to teach tomorrow. WTF? Why can't the summer just be, like, at all times?
And look, so I say this every Sept., I say it cause it's the damn truth: German unification is boooorrrrriiinnngggg.
German unification (1871!) is so boring, it's the kind of boring that you want to protect others from, even strangers. You know, like today I was thinking to myself: how I need a new bra, but I was like--hey, I just bought three bras in like, December--and then I was like--gee, what happened to those three bras? Oh, well, one got chewed up by the dryer....etc.
That information about my bras is so boring that I would not tell it to anyone, in order to not subject them to such a boring story. Except for CC. For some reason she is exempt from this and I told her about the bras. We were on a long drive, anyway, so maybe it was just nice to have something to talk about.
But I would not tell even CC about German unification. It is that boring.
The irony is that I have to tell people in my class tomorrow about it because basically, they are paying me to tell them about it, in violation of my own sense of human fellow-feeling.
And look, so I say this every Sept., I say it cause it's the damn truth: German unification is boooorrrrriiinnngggg.
German unification (1871!) is so boring, it's the kind of boring that you want to protect others from, even strangers. You know, like today I was thinking to myself: how I need a new bra, but I was like--hey, I just bought three bras in like, December--and then I was like--gee, what happened to those three bras? Oh, well, one got chewed up by the dryer....etc.
That information about my bras is so boring that I would not tell it to anyone, in order to not subject them to such a boring story. Except for CC. For some reason she is exempt from this and I told her about the bras. We were on a long drive, anyway, so maybe it was just nice to have something to talk about.
But I would not tell even CC about German unification. It is that boring.
The irony is that I have to tell people in my class tomorrow about it because basically, they are paying me to tell them about it, in violation of my own sense of human fellow-feeling.
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