arguchik | i am sea creature...hear me gurgle?

hey, check it out, here's what i am! it's good to finally know, i was beginning to wonder. and can someone please tell me WTF is up with the explosive proliferation of quizzes on the web of late, most of them purveyed through blogs?

you are a half seacreature this is a funky picture.....YAY

you are a half seacreature this is a funky picture.....YAY

you are a half-seacreature, watch out for poachers

which half-breed are you???????
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LOL. watch out for poachers??? what the hell is that supposed to mean? i know, i know, it's not *strictly* supposed to mean anything, it's supposed to be fun. well, it is, so i guess that's good. i must confess that i get more of a kick out of the longer quizzes, though. this one's very short.

so my first day of school went well. the first thing that went well was that i made it to class on time with all of the materials i needed, without having to scramble. "what made the difference," you ask? i decided not to rely on the copy machines in my department, 2 out of 4 of which (on average) have broken down on the first day of school *every* year i've been here, and the 2 that end up still working are usually attended by long lines of other TA's waiting to make copies for their classes too. instead, i shelled out 4 bucks to copy my syllabus at the ave. copy center (those guys are the shit!). it was well worth the money: quick, easy, and aggravation-free. class itself was ok--we basically went over the syllabus, and i gave them an overnight writing assignment. tomorrow we're going to start a close reading exercise with one of sherman alexie's poems ("how to write the great american indian novel"), so hopefully they'll find that interesting. this quarter i have 14 students, but only 13 showed up, and one of them was half an hour late, which was mildly annoying. they were extremely quiet, though all but 2 of them are first quarter, first year college students, so it's not too surprising. i got them to laugh once or twice, so hopefully they'll come out of their shells more as we all get to know each other. lol--maybe i should juggle for them. or gurgle.

p.s. LOL--i just changed my picture icon thingy to my little polar bear, and i just realized how much "sea creature" looks like the polar bear's favorite food: the seal. oh well...bye bye sea creature.

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You know, I was amazed today when I walked into the copy room around 9:45 and there was *no one* there. I immediately looked for the sign on the copier that says it's not working--that's gotta be it, right? Nope. Worked fine, though for some reason it did a weird wavy thing in the middle of two of my pages (but still readable). I couldn't believe my luck!

Hope your class goes well.

no kidding! it figures, i finally wise up the year that everything's fine. and all those years i spent being optimistic... well, i guess murphy's law still prevails.

have a great quarter! what are you teaching, btw? (hopefully i'll catch up with you on campus sometime and ask you in person!)

Here's a curiousity, have you ever noticed any of your students checking you out and if so what do you do about it?

yes, it happens every now and then. i've never really felt the need to do anything about it, because it has never escalated into anything problematic. just to be clear: i consider that line absolute, and would never fool around with a student (or a teacher...as you and i have discussed concerning someone we both know...) the closest i've ever come to that was a couple of years ago. i was in my office conferencing with a student (male, cute) about his paper. he was the last student of the day, and after we were done talking about his paper we got off the subject into more general philosophical territory (strictly intellectual discussion--he's a really smart guy). anyway, i gradually became aware of a "vibe" from him, and uncomfortably aware of the fact that i found him really attractive too. i basically ended the conversation, and after that i never met with him alone in my office again. instead, i always met with him over at the atrium in the HUB--busy place, nice and noisy. so it wouldn't be obvious *why* i would only meet with him there, i opted to just hold all of my office hours and conference appointments there instead of in my office. i gave the plausible (because *true*) excuse that i couldn't stand sitting in my sub-basement cubbyhole of an office for hours and hours. anyway, that "vibe" thing never happened with that student again, so all ended well.

yahoo! You should juggle for them!

lol--maybe i will. i should probably wait until later in the quarter, though, once they're in the habit of taking the class seriously. *then* i can let my hair down. ;-)

I'm apparently a half-demon, even when I change some of my answers. Hmmm. I guess that choosing religion as the thing I hate most is a sticking point.

There are a lot more quiz things lately, aren't there? I assume that they exist to draw you to a web site where you'll see some banner ads. I think they're sort of fun if there's at least a little effort made in the composition of the quiz.

Autumn always make me think of Denny Hall, dark afternoons, and large, damp leaves on the ground.

lol--i chose religion as the thing i hate most too. i almost picked "weapons," but then i remembered the knife clipped to my pocket...and the set of throwing knives i have...and how much i enjoy target shooting with a pistol...

Weapons was nearly my choice, too, but I do think knives are pretty, and I have a couple of friends who love their guns (an enthusiasm with which they occasionally infect me, but not yet enough to buy one). Since weapons tend to empower the small and weak, perhaps I should hate their neutralizing effect on my advantages. :)

Considering the other major characteristics modelled in my extended family, I should probably be thankful to Christianity for forcing out some of the other behaviors, but that doesn't stop me from recognizing its faults.

oy! my relationship with christianity is too tangled and fraught to even get into here.

as for weapons, i tend to think of them as tools that are useful for specific purposes, and fine in that sense unless they are misused. i don't think i'd ever choose to buy a gun myself because i'd be too worried that a kid or someone with bad intentions might get a hold of it. i'd never forgive myself if i owned a gun and it was used to hurt or kill someone. plus, i just don't think "ordinary people" need to own guns. my ex-husband had several, which is how i learned to shoot, but a couple of them made me really uncomfortable. (for example, he had an SKS, which is the chinese version of the AK-47. i just never saw any reason for us to have such a thing in the house.)

oooh lookie you have a horn and a tail! very nice.

yeah...you think that's nice, check out the_kender's results. he came out as a "half fairy" who likes to dance. *and* his pic is a coy chick with ass ink. (see the icon on his comment above.)

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