My supervisor has just offered me a job filling in for her when she is on sabbatical next semester! Not only does that mean real! live! money!, but, more excitingly, real! live! teaching!, i.e. full responsibility for her classes. (You can tell how happy I am about this from the amount of punctuation in the previous sentence.)
Dork that I am, this meant I lay awake all night planning syllabi and assignments and coming up with clever ways to mess with the little studentses' minds. And when I've achieved my dissertation-related goals for the day, I'm going to reward myself by going online and comparing textbooks.
Extra dorkily, the first thing I thought when she offered me the job was not, "Money!" or "That will look good on my CV," but rather, "That will pretty much guarantee a steady supply of entertaining anecdotes for blog posts." (Followed by, "Maybe I can encourage her to go somewhere wonderful on her sabbatical, so that she decides not to come back...")
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Foot in the door
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You're beyond hope when your first thought upon seeing something blog-worthy is to think "This is blog-worthy"
That is very funny. And congratulations! See, a blog-worthy story about the bloggable thought on blogging that you first considered. Definitely a good sign for posts to come.
Wow! Congratulations, sounds like it will be a lot of fun (and work).
Congrats! That just rocks!
I don't think you're a real blogger unless you occasionally think about whether something you do is sufficiently blogworthy.
Hey, what wonderful news! You'll love it.
But ... but ... blogging is what work is FOR, isn't it? It certainly makes it funnier. But it's a bit sad when I find myself staring out over a particularly boring class and thinking, "Come on, come on! Do something blogworthy!" and getting frustrated when they don't.
But occasionally they do or say something I don't know what to do with. An example: One of my students yesterday, while answering a question about family relationships, innocently added a comment about how she gets on really well with her father, and really enjoys having a bath with him. (She is 18.) This provoked a chorus of disbelieving shrieks, not least from me, which she seemed genuinely surprised by. Since then I've been trying to figure out how to fit the story into a blog post without attracting the wrong sort of readers.
And now, as you can see, I have figured it out. I have passed it on to YOU to deal with. :-)
Oh, and ALSO...
Happy birthday, and congratulations on the job!
(I've had a cold for the last ten days or so and not keeping up. Sorry.)
That student comment is VERY bizarre. Was it her English that was the problem? Could she possibly have meant "going swimming" or something more innocent?
hehe. CONGRATS! that is *very* exciting!
You do realise that we'll all be expecting a string of completely hilarious posts on classes next semester?
(by the way, congrats!)
YEA!!! Good for you!
Choice job bro'
congrats!
Don't compare texts on-line - just go to the publisher sites and request exam copies of everything of interest.
Congratulations. That's a great opportunity. If only the students knew how much fun they will cause in the blogosphere.
Shrinkykitten: really? They do that?
(Even for people in Australia?)
A shi: you're doing it WRONG :)
Unfortunately, she said it in Japanese (hence the reaction from the class). There was no doubt.
Definitely bizarre. Especially her reaction, which was puzzlement at what everybody was so excited about.
Talk to me! (You know you want to!)