Entries tagged with teaching

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Blow Me (One Last Kiss) (P!nk)

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Tumblr crosspost (17 February 2021)

Today: showered etc, loaded and ran my dishwasher, got more mats brushed out of my hair (halfway done!), returned a call for a follow-up appointment, and got my voicemail set up in three minutes after five years of putting it off.

Tagged: #i'm going to post materials for my students too #and then idk #i very very seriously need to work on this thing for my committee but also... meh

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis Presley)

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Tumblr crosspost (29 January 2021)

I have a cold that’s currently in the “not serious, but miserable” sniffles ’n sneezes phase, and also had to teach a Zoom class at nine in the morning.

But it was actually nice! The lecture was on ancient Greek rhetoric, and my students went off on a very earnest tangent about Percy Jackson and the failings of the films, and at the end, were like “feel better, professor! You did a great job!”

Nice students are the best.

Tagged: #(especially when i'm sick lol)

heckofabecca said:

awww <3 feel better!!

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Under Pressure (Queen & David Bowie)

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Tumblr crosspost (25 January 2021)

On the one hand, I didn’t check my email. On the other hand, I did upload my students’ readings and post instructions for this week, and I’m contemplating cleaning something.

??

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Telephone Line (Electric Light Orchestra)

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Tumblr crosspost (21 January 2021)

I figured out a way to send emails to my class without seeing my inbox, which … obviously I should check my inbox, but it’s a big relief to be able to send updates on Bad Days without the terror of my inbox. I LIVE.

Meanwhile, at the appointment:

Psychiatrist: Is there anything that makes you less anxious about checking your email?

Me: Not doing it.

Tagged: #/sigh #honestly kind of sorry for my students but here we are

Current Location: Washington

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Tumblr crosspost (22 December 2020)

The final day of grading is always rough, but every year a) I think this time it will be different!!! and b) it is actually worse than every time before.

/flop

Tagged: #i think this is the first time a student has blamed me for them not doing an assignment though

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Spectrum (Florence + The Machine)

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Tumblr crosspost (21 December 2020)

I reblogged this post and added:

lmao, and then I got an anonymous complaint from a different student about how inefficient I was. What a semester.

Tagged: #to be fair to anonymous student /i/ thought i was inefficient #but like ... okay

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Bed of Roses (Bon Jovi)

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Tumblr crosspost (18 December 2020)

One of the students I’d had in a previous class said “thank you for another efficient semester” in their final email, and I … think??? that’s a compliment, but I am not at all sure!

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Marble Halls (Enya)

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Tumblr crosspost (10 December 2020)

I reblogged this post and modified it to:

If I ~~finish grading this batch of 16th-cent lit exams~~ ✔️
~~and email my students their creative writing feedback~~ ✔️
~~and~~ finish my 17th-cent written exam (before Friday)
and then write my 18th-cent written exam
… then I can write fic

Tagged: #down to the exams (which is either :) or T_T depending)

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: This Can't Be Love (Natalie Cole)

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Tumblr crosspost (30 November 2020)

My students did such good work on their literary analysis projects :’)

Tagged: #i felt vaguely guilty about giving half of them a's but THEY DESERVED THEM #esp in 2020!