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Feb. 24th, 2009 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I think my students forgot how to write essays over the Christmas break. Marking these things is making my head hurt. However, it's going relatively quickly and I'll probably be finished by tomorrow night.
Even so, my god. Their writing is horrible! Not just sentence construction, but the way they write the essay itself. So much informal language and summarizing, ugh. I actually found myself writing on one, "needs moar analysis".
At that point I figured it was probably time to take a break. *facepalm* So, I went home and made more paluszki. Well, I'm in the process of that, actually. The dough is chilling in the fridge right now. I still have enough butter to make a couple more batches, woo. But I only make a regular batch every time, because they really are best when fresh from the oven, and if I made a double I wouldn't be able to finish it off before it gets bleh.
Mm. I really need to get myself on track. I am very lazy, and I know it. But, laziness is not compatible with honour, and I want to be an honourable man. So. Need to do something about that. I think I'll give up laziness for Lent. But since that is so abstract, I guess it might be better to say that I'll do things right away instead of letting them go until later.
Of course, I'm totally not Christian of any kind, but whatever. Now's as good a time as ever to get off my ass and start practising what I preach, eh? And 'sides, I think my Gran would've been pleased.
... Jesus, fuck, I want paczki. *drool* Er, anyway.
I found an evaluation sheet of one of my seminar presentations from last semester. One of the comments the prof made was thus: "You should work on the way you deliver oral presentations. You always look nervous and unhappy, especially when answering questions".
...
Um.
That would be because I was always nervous and unhappy. Yes. *facepalm* Oh, anxiety, how Ilove hate thee. At least now I have something for that.
But you know, I doubt my presentation skills have gotten any better. Sure, I'm not all panicking any more. I'm more like, "La, okay, let's do this, it's no big deal~" nowadays. But my speaking skills still suck and I still have no idea how to answer questions. *sighs and drums fingers* Mm. Oh, well. Lots of time to work on that, I guess?
After two months of discussion, my Aboriginal Lit class has finally figured out a direction we're taking on our collaborative paper. Good. Means I can finally, properly, start working on it. My section is dealing with feminist reception of Halfbreed. The overall essay is discussing the reception of Halfbreed as a microcosm of reception of aboriginal lit in Canada. I don't know if I mentioned it before, but we're planning to send this collaborative essay off to a journal to get published. I can't quite remember which one - American Indian Quarterly, I think? Maybe. Anyway, if it does end up getting published, this will look great for me. But we'll have to see how it goes.
I think my students forgot how to write essays over the Christmas break. Marking these things is making my head hurt. However, it's going relatively quickly and I'll probably be finished by tomorrow night.
Even so, my god. Their writing is horrible! Not just sentence construction, but the way they write the essay itself. So much informal language and summarizing, ugh. I actually found myself writing on one, "needs moar analysis".
At that point I figured it was probably time to take a break. *facepalm* So, I went home and made more paluszki. Well, I'm in the process of that, actually. The dough is chilling in the fridge right now. I still have enough butter to make a couple more batches, woo. But I only make a regular batch every time, because they really are best when fresh from the oven, and if I made a double I wouldn't be able to finish it off before it gets bleh.
Mm. I really need to get myself on track. I am very lazy, and I know it. But, laziness is not compatible with honour, and I want to be an honourable man. So. Need to do something about that. I think I'll give up laziness for Lent. But since that is so abstract, I guess it might be better to say that I'll do things right away instead of letting them go until later.
Of course, I'm totally not Christian of any kind, but whatever. Now's as good a time as ever to get off my ass and start practising what I preach, eh? And 'sides, I think my Gran would've been pleased.
... Jesus, fuck, I want paczki. *drool* Er, anyway.
I found an evaluation sheet of one of my seminar presentations from last semester. One of the comments the prof made was thus: "You should work on the way you deliver oral presentations. You always look nervous and unhappy, especially when answering questions".
...
Um.
That would be because I was always nervous and unhappy. Yes. *facepalm* Oh, anxiety, how I
But you know, I doubt my presentation skills have gotten any better. Sure, I'm not all panicking any more. I'm more like, "La, okay, let's do this, it's no big deal~" nowadays. But my speaking skills still suck and I still have no idea how to answer questions. *sighs and drums fingers* Mm. Oh, well. Lots of time to work on that, I guess?
After two months of discussion, my Aboriginal Lit class has finally figured out a direction we're taking on our collaborative paper. Good. Means I can finally, properly, start working on it. My section is dealing with feminist reception of Halfbreed. The overall essay is discussing the reception of Halfbreed as a microcosm of reception of aboriginal lit in Canada. I don't know if I mentioned it before, but we're planning to send this collaborative essay off to a journal to get published. I can't quite remember which one - American Indian Quarterly, I think? Maybe. Anyway, if it does end up getting published, this will look great for me. But we'll have to see how it goes.
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.