i am sea creature...hear me gurgle?

[arguchik]

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, 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.

Comments

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

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...

[beneluxboy.livejournal.com]

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.

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

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.)