Semester.Over

Had to pull some down and dirty voodoo to get it all done, and nearly got into a fist fight with someone at the cheese job when they tried to yell at me for being late, after I'd been awake for 24+ hours, and was STILL there an hour early--making mine an 8.5 hour shift, on no sleep-- so they could go to a wedding.Yeah, I almost cut a fucker. But you know what? It's done. Semester. Over.

And I just received my course evaluations and I'm frankly terrified to look at them. I feel like I fucked this semester up, Royal. I can think of at least three valid criticisms of my performance, but I'm worried about the ones I can't think of. Where are the places I fucked up that I didn't notice, until it was too late?

Shit.

Ah well. "Do what frightens you."

The only way out is through.

Things I'm Learning About Teaching And Myself.

Venetian Snares& Hecate - [Intense Demonic Attacks (Initiate Devil's Answer Remix)]--- Some students want to be spoon-fed their answers. One evaluation complained about my only writing down "key words." and every single one has had at least one instance of "needs more powerpoint presentations." It's called "Reading Your Fucking Books," children. You have three of them, for a reason.

- Kids these days want More tests. I don't think they'll like where that leads, in all honesty. Making more tests isn't going to make me make easier tests. They're just going to be more detailed, intricate questions, covering less material.

Someone said I "talked the entire hour and 15 minutes," and one kid said I talked in a Monotone? (Poe - [Hey Pretty]). First of all, I'm sorry, What? It's hrd NOT to talk the whole time, when, after I ask you a question, any question at all, there is DEAFENING SILENCE. Secondly, Do you know what that word means? Do your ears function? I yell, shout, emphasize, gesticulate. Monotone is not a word that applies.

Warren Zevon - [Veracruz]--- Here, have an Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmc2B6kIgsA (That's weird. I just noticed that I sound a little like Al Madrigal, sometimes. Or, rather, he sounds like me.)

I mean what the shit?

ANywho. My classes did make some really good points, which I'll be implementing into my future classes. So There we go.