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'Shindig'


Spike's Bitches 22: You've got Angel breath  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Scrappy - Mar 15, 2005 8:13:10 am PST #6590 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I doubt I'd do well in any class setting where one lines up before a teacher.

Not even where the teacher knows something you really want to know? I definitely have trouble if I don't respect the teacher, but if they have something valuable to offer, I don't mind making it easy for her to give it (having been a teacher myself) and making it easy for me to learn it (because I loves learning me some new stuff).

For example--I love our dog training class where all the owners and their various dogs line up in front of the teacher. That way he can see all the dogs, to gauge their progress, plus, the guy's been working with dogs for 35 years, I've had one for a month--I want to glom as much of his knowledge as I can.


Steph L. - Mar 15, 2005 8:13:56 am PST #6591 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I have no input on yelling, except that I seem to do it a lot.

I (1) am home sick with a cold, drinking hot beverages; and (2) want this t-shirt: [link]


beekaytee - Mar 15, 2005 8:14:14 am PST #6592 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

But I want to know why, and in a life filled with other things, I don't have the patience to wait years to find out what the use of what I've been learning is.

This very thought cured me of an aikido fantasy years ago.

This conversation has really got me thinking about what I'm so afraid of in myself. Someone else yelling at me can have only the effect I allow it to. So what am I expecting?

I'll look foolish? Well. That's assured. So why bother worrying about it?

Someone will be angry with me? In this context, unlikely and even if...so what?

I might unleash something unexpected in myself? Now that bears scrutiny.


§ ita § - Mar 15, 2005 8:17:28 am PST #6593 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Someone else yelling at me can have only the effect I allow it to. So what am I expecting?

That's a very interesting question.


Connie Neil - Mar 15, 2005 8:27:46 am PST #6594 of 10001
brillig

Not even where the teacher knows something you really want to know?

Not if it's a gung-ho, everyone-get-excited type of situation. Teacher to scholar is a different situation. Whenever my college instructors tried the "let's get excited about this!" techniques, I rolled my eyes and waited till they done and got back to business. The teachers I liked best obviously enjoyed their subject, were enthusiastic about the class learning it, but managed not to let the class devolve into a motivational speaker type circus.


Cashmere - Mar 15, 2005 8:29:11 am PST #6595 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

I equate quiet, but serious voices with authority, not yelling.

I also enjoy cheering--be it sports events or someone cheering me on to do something. I like loud encouragement when I'm attempting a physical task, too.

I've also been known to sound my barbaric yawp.

But it could be that I'm just a loud person in general.


§ ita § - Mar 15, 2005 8:29:36 am PST #6596 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Not if it's a gung-ho, everyone-get-excited type of situation

I'm guessing you're not interested in learning things where being animated is part of the point, then?


Connie Neil - Mar 15, 2005 8:30:25 am PST #6597 of 10001
brillig

I'm guessing you're not interested in learning things where being animated is part of the point, then?

I'm guessing you're missing my point.


§ ita § - Mar 15, 2005 8:32:08 am PST #6598 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm guessing you're missing my point.

Then help me out -- I still don't know what method works on you when an instructor needs you animated, vigourous, since setting an example isn't it.


Scrappy - Mar 15, 2005 8:32:59 am PST #6599 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

But you cheer at sporting events, don't you? You aren't trying to motivate the players so much as create an atmosphere of heightened energy and I think this is directly analogous. You don't want golf claps at a soccer goal.