Eighth cup of coffee
Jan. 9th, 2004 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coffeesnob318So....I'm caffeinated - how are you? And whoa! That is the sharpest cheese I've ever eaten. It wasn't kidding when it said "extra sharp." I think I'm bleeding.
This week has been nice. I've been productive, but off from work. Well, except for yesterday. I went to faculty orientation at El Centro. I have some suggestions for them for next semester.
1. Open bar. Some things are only interesting when there's rum involved.
2. If it's written down - say, in a manual or something - you don't have to read it to us. It's exhausting. And for those who do have to have it read to them, perhaps teaching college isn't for them.
3. Include field trips around downtown Dallas, particularly ways to get the hell out of there when there is construction blocking the path we normally use. These field trips should include alcohol as well. Lots of great bars going to waste.
4. Have door prizes. Like pens. Or dry erase markers. Or laptops.
5. Don't schedule department meetings at night, after we're all drained from the Day O' Meetings and parking fees go up. In other words, follow the example of our department chair, God bless her. *moment of silence for all those who had to stay through dinner and the awards ceremony just so they could meet with their departments* Glad it wasn't me.
6. Wear costumes. Just 'cause.
7. Don't use that freeze-dried, stale, nasty crap left over from last semester and then have the audacity to call it coffee. That's just wrong.
8. "Um" and "uh" are not real words. Do not use them as transitions between every damn sentence. And we speak publicly for a living, do we?
9. Pay attention to time so that you don't force us to be late to the next meeting. We should be able to ask our students to be on time to class without being hypocrites.
10. Don't ask if there are any questions if answering them is going to stress you out and make you feel defensive. One word - therapy.
Tomorrow, I rustle up the other two syllabi. I don't know why the spring semester is always so wonky. NCTC has a different spring break than the other two (translation - no spring break for me...again). NCTC and ECC start next week and go through the first week of May. I think that TCC, however, starts the 20th and goes through the second week of May, which means, if that's true (I suppose I should check, huh? Since I work there and all), that I won't get to teach minimester at NCTC in May because I'll still be right smack in the middle of finals at TCC when it begins. What the hell? What would be so difficult about each school making sure that their schedules match other schools in the area? Especially since the majority of their classes are taught by part-timers that teach in multiple districts. Grr...
This week has been nice. I've been productive, but off from work. Well, except for yesterday. I went to faculty orientation at El Centro. I have some suggestions for them for next semester.
1. Open bar. Some things are only interesting when there's rum involved.
2. If it's written down - say, in a manual or something - you don't have to read it to us. It's exhausting. And for those who do have to have it read to them, perhaps teaching college isn't for them.
3. Include field trips around downtown Dallas, particularly ways to get the hell out of there when there is construction blocking the path we normally use. These field trips should include alcohol as well. Lots of great bars going to waste.
4. Have door prizes. Like pens. Or dry erase markers. Or laptops.
5. Don't schedule department meetings at night, after we're all drained from the Day O' Meetings and parking fees go up. In other words, follow the example of our department chair, God bless her. *moment of silence for all those who had to stay through dinner and the awards ceremony just so they could meet with their departments* Glad it wasn't me.
6. Wear costumes. Just 'cause.
7. Don't use that freeze-dried, stale, nasty crap left over from last semester and then have the audacity to call it coffee. That's just wrong.
8. "Um" and "uh" are not real words. Do not use them as transitions between every damn sentence. And we speak publicly for a living, do we?
9. Pay attention to time so that you don't force us to be late to the next meeting. We should be able to ask our students to be on time to class without being hypocrites.
10. Don't ask if there are any questions if answering them is going to stress you out and make you feel defensive. One word - therapy.
Tomorrow, I rustle up the other two syllabi. I don't know why the spring semester is always so wonky. NCTC has a different spring break than the other two (translation - no spring break for me...again). NCTC and ECC start next week and go through the first week of May. I think that TCC, however, starts the 20th and goes through the second week of May, which means, if that's true (I suppose I should check, huh? Since I work there and all), that I won't get to teach minimester at NCTC in May because I'll still be right smack in the middle of finals at TCC when it begins. What the hell? What would be so difficult about each school making sure that their schedules match other schools in the area? Especially since the majority of their classes are taught by part-timers that teach in multiple districts. Grr...
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Date: 2004-01-09 11:15 am (UTC)It's anathema! The infidels. Someone needs to be bitch slapped with a 5-pound bag of real coffee beans.
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Date: 2004-01-09 11:19 am (UTC)Although it could be argued that a swift "educating" via smackdown with the beans is good...
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Date: 2004-01-09 04:06 pm (UTC)Although... you expect the schools to get organized? Can they even do that internally? If so, damn. I should have gone to school in Texas...
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Date: 2004-01-10 07:51 am (UTC)Um by the way, I think it may not have been the intent of your post but now my half of the brain is very jealous of what your half of the brain does for a living....I miss school!! really, I do!! Someday I wanna be a teacher...when I grow up.....
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Date: 2004-01-12 07:55 am (UTC)