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Live Blogging the Countdown to Winter Break
I teach my last class tonight at 6:00!
And by "teach" I mean "watch" and by "class" I mean "demonstration of African dancing and drumming a bunch of other people are doing"
Just did my last batch of evals. Classic abject professor standing in hallway routine, like a chastised child. Pretty sure these evals are gonna be bad this time around but what can you do
The facilities guy just came in to check on me, because he saw me sitting in my office wearing my coat. "are you cold?" "Yes." "Why is your thermostat so low?" "WHAT?" "Your thermostat, it's turned all the way down." "I have a thermostat?" "Yeah, see this thing here, with the sign on it that says 'Do Not Touch The Thermostat.'" "I thought I wasn't supposed to touch that." "Well SOMEBODY touched it, because it's turned all the way down!" "Oh my god." He cranked it back up. Now it's toasty as hell in here, I am fucking stoked! Love that facilities guy!!! What can't he do? He is in charge of everything. I love him.
Gave my TAs their paltry token gifts. Wish I could give them a million dollars.
Had my last student presentations. Made them all applaud.
Lord have mercy!
After today I just have one meeting tomorrow and then thirteen oral exams on Friday
LOL what on earth am I gonna ask these kids in their oral exams?????? Better get crackin'
And by "teach" I mean "watch" and by "class" I mean "demonstration of African dancing and drumming a bunch of other people are doing"
Just did my last batch of evals. Classic abject professor standing in hallway routine, like a chastised child. Pretty sure these evals are gonna be bad this time around but what can you do
The facilities guy just came in to check on me, because he saw me sitting in my office wearing my coat. "are you cold?" "Yes." "Why is your thermostat so low?" "WHAT?" "Your thermostat, it's turned all the way down." "I have a thermostat?" "Yeah, see this thing here, with the sign on it that says 'Do Not Touch The Thermostat.'" "I thought I wasn't supposed to touch that." "Well SOMEBODY touched it, because it's turned all the way down!" "Oh my god." He cranked it back up. Now it's toasty as hell in here, I am fucking stoked! Love that facilities guy!!! What can't he do? He is in charge of everything. I love him.
Gave my TAs their paltry token gifts. Wish I could give them a million dollars.
Had my last student presentations. Made them all applaud.
Lord have mercy!
After today I just have one meeting tomorrow and then thirteen oral exams on Friday
LOL what on earth am I gonna ask these kids in their oral exams?????? Better get crackin'
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why
make it stop
only an hour until I have to go meet the dancers and get ready for the last class! I hope some students show up
Thanks for joining me on this powerful journey
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Guys the last day of class was SO FUN. Everyone got up onstage and danced and played drums. I got so sweaty. The ratio of "totally on board kids" to "totally lame kids pretending to be too cool for it" slowly shifted over the course of the hour until by the end basically everyone was onstage dancing and there were only a few lame guys with their hats pulled down scoffing. It was pretty triumphant. One girl got up and took her shoes off and breakdanced and everyone screamed. I was so happy
COLLEGE
part of why I think this class exists and matters here is, in fact, BECAUSE it's not the kind of school where white dudes have dreads
haha
major privilege divide. I love it here and I love these kids and I believe in them and in their ability to learn how to enjoy dancing on a stage even though they have to major in accounting
One of my students just gave me a present, which is a facsimile of the tongue-in-cheek history of England that Jane Austen wrote in her teens. UH!!!!! Amazing gift!
I've done three exams. Ten to go! I already feel insane and drunk
help
what a nice gift, that is super thoughtful.
and is floating somewhere in the sky
i'm at the point of forgetting whether i've asked a student about wagner already or if that was the student before
this was a huge mistake
i've made a huge mistake
the next one's here, i gotta go
I just finished all the orals. It was fucking epic
I still have to go to a talk on Renaissance music in one hour but then I will be done
BLESS YOU
GODSPEED
10 minutes to the renaissance talk
then home to where my old devil man is making mac n cheese
i requested beer and kombucha also
tomorrow i will lie on the floor naked for 24 hours just because i can
santa came early baby
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some grading shenanigans have transpired, also it taking me a lot longer to write this thing on narrative than I thought
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leaving for Phoenix tomorrow
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but now we are back and all is well!
and it's like 15 degrees here--winter finally came!
and i'm still not done with that thing on narrative
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