If a snowflake falls in the woods and there’s no one else around, does it still make a commotion hoping to be noticed and told how well it fell, even though the snowflake couldn’t even fall correctly without a cheat sheet?
It doesn’t matter that I’m your online instructor, I am not tech support. All I know about most computers is how to point, click, and use. Oh yeah. Also porn.
Our department meetings always go past the scheduled end time. But not due to what needs to be discussed. As a group, we’re too easily distracted. As a result, our chair called a meeting to discuss how we can be more efficient in our regularly scheduled meetings. It went past the scheduled end time.
I love to watch sports. All kinds of sports. Unfortunately, at some point during every game, I think about how these amazing athletes I see on my TV were at one point in their lives just like the “student-athletes” that clog my classes. I hate to watch sports.
It’s only Friday evening, but I’m already pining for my inevitable return to the classroom on Monday morning, snowflakes and all. Then again, my house is currently inundated by a gaggle of 12-year-old girls having a “slumber” party. My ears hurt.
Speaking of 12-year-old girls, in observing this gathering, it’s easy to see how the snowflake mind develops. Slowly. In all fairness, if it were a group of 12-year-old boys, it would be slower. I just came to that conclusion 25 years after being a 12-year-old boy.
Next week is test week. I can’t wait to share the latest adventures of Foolish Freddy the Football Player. Stay tuned for next week's episode. Same Pat-Time. Same Pat-Channel.
Have a good weekend all.
(Dickish) Solution for the meeting time overruns:
ReplyDeleteWalk out when the meeting is supposed to end. If they call you on it, say that you were keeping to their time schedule.
On sports:
Think of it like this: the players you see on TeeVee actually are "sucessful" in that they made it to the team. Actually they are doomed to bad knees, bad marriages, bad management, paternity suits, probable drug abuse. Your classroom spastics probably will screw up long before they can make the team, so see them as future gas-station attendants, rest home nurses, or Fundamentalist preachers.*
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* If a pastor's schtick is good enough, they will let him preach without a doctorate of divinity....especially the IFB churches.
WHY WHY WHY can't they FUCKING follow directions? Yesterday's electronic test debacle has me questioning the whole technology thing, too....
ReplyDeleteI am still so angry about my own test disaster that I am shaking, so I can't quite post about it yet...