me too!
It's my estimation that... every man ever got a statue made of him, was one kind of sumbitch or another.
Mal ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 61*
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Oct 01, 2008 5:29:51 pm PDT #1788 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
msbelle - Oct 01, 2008 5:31:38 pm PDT #1789 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
thanks for giving me a good laugh before bed.
Kat - Oct 01, 2008 5:31:55 pm PDT #1790 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
For homework, my students are reading Aristotle's Poetics. Teehee. On the class wiki, they are all commenting on 1. how boring it is (true) 2. how they hate Aristotle (what did he ever do to them and 3. how they read the same page over and over.
Welcome to AP, children.
Ailleann - Oct 01, 2008 5:34:45 pm PDT #1791 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Welcome to AP, children.
Am I the only one who hears a distinct "muah ha ha ha" after that?
sarameg - Oct 01, 2008 5:36:41 pm PDT #1792 of 10001
I just see Kat's smirk and raised eyebrow...
Kat - Oct 01, 2008 5:38:57 pm PDT #1793 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Nah. But COME ON. This is supposed to be pseudo college level work. And how many of you have read Aristotle (or Plato or Socrates) and found yourself re-reading the same passage 10 times? It's a veritable rite of passage.
I mean. Let's be honest. I haven't read the whole thing. I've read critiques of it (literary criticism is so much more efficient, says the girl who watched Barcelona and Metropolitan one too many times) and I'll use those for tomorrow. But seriously? Stop complaining and just suck it up.
I actually did tell one of my students to just man up and take his lumps today.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 01, 2008 5:44:10 pm PDT #1794 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Ah, AP English. Billy Budd put every student in my class asleep while trying to read it for an assignment. It was like the ghost of Herman Melville jumped each of us with chloroform that night.
sarameg - Oct 01, 2008 5:44:41 pm PDT #1795 of 10001
It's a veritable rite of passage.
Yup. I remember creepy Prof ? (I totally have forgotten his name, but not seersucker suits and the smell of stale tobacco and sweat and mint ACK makes me want to gag now) and Plato, Socrates and Aristotle. I read it aloud in various non-native accents to stay awake and remember it. But what do I recall most? The smell and the horror that a student actually had sex with that guy. He was creepy to begin with, plus his fortune came from "found" WW2 treasure in Austria. Seriously sketchy.
Strix - Oct 01, 2008 5:50:34 pm PDT #1796 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
For me, it wasn't the Poetics; it was "In Defence of Poesy." Argh. Although it did enable me to discourse semiintelligently on "tabula rasa" and the themporary suspension of disbelief when I got into my 2nd year 17th C. Lit course with my toughest teacher evah, grad school or no.
Edit: And why I put tabula rasa in quotations, I do not know -- I blame it on cough syrup (oh, that it were codiene-based! sigh) -- but the mispelling of temporary I blame entirely (albeit subconsciously) on JR Ward.
msbelle - Oct 01, 2008 5:53:26 pm PDT #1797 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
omg y'all I have to do the gas company thing in person and the closest office to my work is 30 min by train and they are only open 8:30 - 5, M-F. HATE!!