Poetics and prosody

[icepixie]

It feels weird only having one class that I have to go to campus for. (Thesis hours technically count as a class, but my thesis is starting to become a process of "take a month to write a chapter, discuss it with my director for an hour, take another month to write another chapter, etc." so...yeah.) I think I'm going to very much enjoy this class, though; it's kind of a poetic forms throughout the ages class, with a particular focus on lyric--or at any rate that's what we're starting with--and obviously this will be helpful to my thesis. The prof is a wonderful, hugely entertaining guy. This should be excellent.

Tomorrow I make my students WRITE! Mwahahaha! BTW, did I mention that before our first class meeting yesterday, one of my kids went on Blackboard, found the syllabus, and brought in his homework for Friday? It was just signing a piece of paper saying he agreed to abide by the syllabus requirements (my goal was to have them figure out how to print things from Blackboard, since they'll need it for class readings), but still. That's kind of amazing.

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[nickless.livejournal.com]

*beats twit with a stick* Funny how the people who say that are the ones who, if put in front of a classroom themselves, would either run crying from the room after a few short hours or would blather on endlessly, totally oblivious to the fact that they weren't "teaching" anyone anything.

And in other news, I LOVE the Evil Teacher Club icon. :)

*waves* Hi Becca! I'll give you back your post now!

[alto2.livejournal.com]

He was definitely a twit deserving of many a beating. Which we were happy to provide on many occasions. I think we even used that argument on him more than once, though of course he insisted he would have been fine in front of a class because hey! He would have the magic book. Moron.

Not sure how much longer I'm qualified to use either teacher icon, since I'm not one anymore, but glad you approve! :)

[nickless.livejournal.com]

Not sure how much longer I'm qualified to use either teacher icon, since I'm not one anymore

I think once you've been in the trenches, you get(?) to carry the label forever. Kinda like being in the Marines...