thissummerheat:

Another UR perk: Apparently, little gems like this occasionally find their way into the dessert freezer. If I hadn’t been planning on going to get my ticket after lunch, I would’ve stolen a few and kept them in my room. They also had cannolis, too. I almost considered taking a few of those back with me.

They had CANNOLIS? In my day sometimes d-hall would have Chocotacos and it was exciting times. You know you’re supposed to bring tupperware with you in case of emergencies of the type described. Into the tupperware, into the purse.

I need the warm reassuring hug of being a part of a respectable educational institution again. hnng. Also from the looks of tumblr, the University of Richmond is much more awesome than it was when I graduated. There’s a quidditch team. sighsigh

The water under the bridge is low and the peaks are shallower than they were before. I lean over and press my fingers into the underside of the rusty handrail. It’s not far to go if you walk sideways down the embankment. It is maybe forty feet down.

I’ll just go for a swim. 

I’ll just strip and go for a swim.

It’s cold so taking off my clothes is so vulnerable, pushing up my shirt and pulling it over my head. It goes down on the damp dirt like a silk parachute, my red and yellow camisole, and I trip out of my jeans, forcing them over my jutting hips which are always complaining these days. Moles stand out on me like fleas on a white bedspread.

I want to be like a fish. I don’t want to hurt. I want to be like a whale, something that dives deeply and makes a discovery of the depths. I want it to be new.

I’ve been working on this for three hours. Or, I worked on it for five minutes and spent the rest of the time trying to write it for five minutes. This semester is going to be the most difficult I’ve ever had, probably. I will be taking two workshops, which means 5 stories minimum. Here’s to not giving up my integrity! I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

positivelypersistantteach:

I like the one about your bladder never crying again.

How coteaching in Korea should work, also. Not all of these apply to me, but enough of them do to make me smile :) 

me: Are you cold :D ?

student : … o__O no?

me: … >___> are you… sick?

student: … -looking at me like I’m crazy-

WHY ARE YOU WEARING A BLANKET THEN

My students are fucking awful this week. 

In my heart I knew they would be, with it being the second week of school and the school festival being on Friday but I didn’t realize how enormously it would suck until now. 

I prepared for it by having them do an easy assignment. No sweat man, draw me a pretty picture and fill in the blanks but how do you get somebody to do something they are just Not Going to Do? 

A lot of my students are just not going to do the assignment because they don’t feel like it which isn’t fair to the students who do because I don’t punish students individually [mostly because then they’d hate me forever and I’m sensitive to that. But also because it is a society of groups etc etc etc shaming etc etc etc]

Do your work do your work do your work do your work that’s nice do your work do your work why aren’t you doing your work STOP THAT DO YOUR WORK

Apparently they’re all being fucking awful in their other classes too [worse in mine of course worse in mine] and it’s got teachers wondering if they’ve just changed as students over the summer and how much of a nightmare that would be.

Please. Please. Change back next week. I mean, shit, please change back tomorrow. Not that they were awesome last semester generally but they pretended to listen which is really all I ask at the minimum.

Sorry for the cursing, dad. I’m sure you know how I feel, being a professor. …and a dad.

I’m trying not to let such things get under my skin this semester. I’m still trying to figure out how to get them motivated to do work in my class… [no grades, no tests…] It just feels pointless sometimes.

Really I might not come in for the festival, or barring that participate in it much. I may need to just spend the whole day in my apartment screaming into a pillow. On the other hand, maybe I need to have a fun day with the students. ON THE OTHER HAND maybe they see me as too much of a friend already.

This is a video from Michael Buckley/Peron75 [WhattheBuck’s vlog channel on youtube] about how it might be good to behave on the first day of school.

Though it was made for students, I’m finding that it’s really good advice for teachers  too. I feel like almost everything he says are really great reminders in terms of a teacher’s attitude and how to lead the class.

Second era of Korea starts in T-minus 5…4…3…2…

Gosh I was in the supermarket today and I found myself in the juice isle trying really hard to find  a fruit juice that I wanted to drink [abnormal but…] and I turned around and it… LIKE A DREAM IT WAS

I was DDDD: in the candy aisle all of a sudden and I >_> looked to the left and I <_< looked to the right [those shifty eyes are backwards but I’m not fixing it] and I started quietly hyperventilating. 

I don’t eat a lot of candy, generally, but I started to notice all the things that I craved desperately during the past year while simultaneously realizing that I’ve already committed to bringing a checked bag back to Korea AND ALL THE POSSIBILITIES STARTED TO FLOOD INTO MY MIND.

So when my dad came back and found me in the candy aisle I was clutching two large bags of Starbursts [drooling] and a large bag of assorted chocolate candy [reese’s pieces and whoppers mostly] to my chest… he was unable to wrest them from my grasp. Next on the list is macaroni and things that will make my life easier [like casserole mixes.] Hope I have time.

Anyway, I’ve been thinking of putting my lesson plans [at least the run throughs and maybe the handouts and powerpoints] online if anybody shows any interest in that. I make everything from scratch so why not help somebody out, right? Let me know.

via thingsforteachers

I have to admit that I’ve broken nearly all of these, but then again it states that you shouldn’t post it if you wouldn’t say it to your parents or coworkers or something and I really don’t have much of a filter in real life either.

btw thingsforteachers is an amazing blog about sales and tech and more for teachers. Very amazing if you want to incorporate the internet or are looking for new ways to present things in the classroom.

(via thingsforteachers)

Classes in Korea are starting back up soon [and already have in most public school cases] so here’s a whole bunch of tips for things to do and ways to manage the classroom.

For Korea [in my experience] some of these things are no good [taking an informal break in the middle of class for instance] but then quite a lot of them are very simply put and absolutely essential [starting off with a picture or a short video to introduce them to the topic and generate interest.] Making a grand stage entrance the first day? If you’re the person directing the class I’d say that’s a must.

Yesterday in class we played in game in which the students were blindfolded and had to find each other using certain animal sounds which they chose themselves.

Apparently there’s a bird in Korea that makes a noise that sounds like “MISSUS MOON!!!!” and one group chose it. They had no trouble finding each other.

I couldn’t record her face, but know that the girl does not look like she is capable of making this noise :O

edit: Tumblr keeps cutting off the last half second ><