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- 000 March 2015
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SPRING BREAK
YOU DING DONGS YOU DIDN'T BELIEVE I COULD DO IT BUT I DID
I MADE IT TO SPRING BREAK
BIKINI TIME BITCHES
well actually I have to teach a grad seminar here in a second and then have four meetings but then it will be spring break
BEER BONG
BODY SHOTS
FORT LAUDERDALE
HOMEWORK, CHARITY, HELPING ORPHANS---DALAS #neverforget
I MADE IT TO SPRING BREAK
BIKINI TIME BITCHES
well actually I have to teach a grad seminar here in a second and then have four meetings but then it will be spring break
BEER BONG
BODY SHOTS
FORT LAUDERDALE
HOMEWORK, CHARITY, HELPING ORPHANS---DALAS #neverforget
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writing a strategic plan for this insane course I teach
going to the post office finally
talking to straight-up lunatics in the steam room at the gym
vacation stuff!
"I just love steam rooms don't you?"
"Yes!"
"Did you watch Walking Dead last night?"
"No--why, was there a steam room in it?"
"....WHAT?!!!"
"Uh...did the episode involve a steam room?"
"No, it's a TELEVISION SHOW."
"I know, but you were just talking about steam rooms, so...."
"NO." [very angry]
I'm not going anywhere this year; I'm just gonna find myself a steam room so I can FINALLY have the deep Walking Dead analysis than only a steam room filled with strangers allows.
* let's not kid myself, not like I'm a writer or film maker or teacher or something
http://www.clickhole.com/article/thank-you-letters-are-what-make-teaching-worth-it-2093
also
http://www.theonion.com/articles/teacher-who-dedicates-life-to-students-total-fucki,38124/
http://www.mnftiu.cc/2014/12/30/best-of-2014-palindromes/
wow
i am so sad
i have a 100 page thesis i have to edit and an article I have to edit and a bunch of masters exams to prep for and I have to teach Wagner and I am sobbing
"Spring Break was great. I got so much work done."
http://whitehotharlots.tumblr.com/post/114067452180/a-personal-account-of-how-call-out-culture-has
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/04/1260119/-When-Neoliberalism-and-White-Privilege-Meet-in-the-College-Classroom-Black-Professors-Are-Punished#
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/29/salatia/
but yeah, the author makes a good point, about how "triggering" culture is just as reactionary and limiting of discourse and critical thought as the conservative response to stuff that upsets their worldview. In the past, professors only had to worry about the latter; now indeed the former has come roaring to the forefront and it's pretty unsettling. In grad school it never occurred to any of us that there were texts you couldn't assign or conversations you couldn't have because of "triggering" students; now it's a commonplace. It happened REALLY fast.
It's also true that all it takes is one student, to cause the uproar. But I do want to put in a plug for the majority of students, who as a rule are not like this. I skated on some very thin ice at my last job; we talked about HEAVY shit in my classes, and my students were awesome and totally on board. We read Norman Mailer's "The White Negro!!" We read this crazy article about how popular paintings of dead women were in the 19th century. My students handled it like champs. But I had my heart in my throat all the time, waiting for the accusation that I had triggered somebody.
It's very much in keeping with how infantilized we are as a culture right now. People really want to remain children; people are keeping their children babies for longer and longer. I think because the world is so much shittier and harder now, there's a very deep desire to cover your eyes and plug your ears (or to cover your child's eyes/ears). I get that, but it does make it hard to learn anything or develop intellectually.
I think I might start talking about this with my classes.
all profs are now required to list textbooks on the enrollment website through Amazon; there is no other way to input textbook information
It was almost hard to tell it was spring break, because it's never not spring break there? But I did see a lot of bros that were so drunk they didn't have shoes on, some girls wearing bikinis and heels as clothing, and at one point I got so caught up in the sunset glow/crazy lights/sunburn delirium/new friends that I did some incoherent screaming on the street.
Still got a hoarse voice!
tomorrow is my last undergrad class
my bikini and nacho hat and beer bong are all laid out on my bed in preparation for me putting them on first thing Thursday morning (alarm is set for 6:30 a.m.)
I'd even suggest hiring a dj with weird sideburns and wraparound shades to play it to you, while you party hard in your home.