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1 Feb 2005 09:27 ambride price by basingstoke. d/m. g, i think. humour, and only one short scene of it so it's easily bite-sized.
1 Feb 2005
i skipped swedish on friday and...
1 Feb 2005 01:54 pmthe teacher always snarks about missing a class. you know, i can see how she can be offended, because it's her class and she'd prefer that since she HAS to be there she had people to teach so she didn't feel useless. i totally get it. BUT.
today:
her: you should've picked up friday's papers.
me: i have.
her: yeah, ONE MINUTE AGO.
um? so. yeah, for me the point of taking a swedish course is to learn swedish. it's not a collaborative work of performance art that i'm dedicated to making into a nice theater production every day, you know? so if picking friday's papers up on friday doesn't really make a difference to my ability to learn the damn swedish OR to participate in class--which it doesnt--what's the big fucking deal?
the days after an absence are actually my favorite days; they're the only ones in which i don't get bored, because i have a day's homework and two days' lessons to do in the period of one lesson, which is about the amount of work that keeps me occupied, and the amount that i can successfully absorb.
i finished the worksheets from that day before we went over them, i read the papers on the first read-through a zillion times better than my partner did on his second or--well, i don't know how often he'd read them, but he was there on friday. you know, my problem in this class isn't keeping up, it's keeping slow, keeping from getting impatient. half the time i get paired for oral exercises with people who can't pronounce anything. i might as well do them on my own for all the good they do me. i'm not having a conversation, i'm reading off the answers and correcting mistakes.
look, i'm not cut out to be a teacher. mistakes don't make me want to teach. they make me want to make scathing comments.
I'M TRYING HERE. i'm very polite and compliant and participatory in class, i'm interested in swedish, i like the teacher personally, i even like the slow learners personally when i'm not gritting my teeth in the midst of an exercise. it would be nice if she could cut a little slack too.
or she can ask too much if she has to--but she's never going to get it.
today:
her: you should've picked up friday's papers.
me: i have.
her: yeah, ONE MINUTE AGO.
um? so. yeah, for me the point of taking a swedish course is to learn swedish. it's not a collaborative work of performance art that i'm dedicated to making into a nice theater production every day, you know? so if picking friday's papers up on friday doesn't really make a difference to my ability to learn the damn swedish OR to participate in class--which it doesnt--what's the big fucking deal?
the days after an absence are actually my favorite days; they're the only ones in which i don't get bored, because i have a day's homework and two days' lessons to do in the period of one lesson, which is about the amount of work that keeps me occupied, and the amount that i can successfully absorb.
i finished the worksheets from that day before we went over them, i read the papers on the first read-through a zillion times better than my partner did on his second or--well, i don't know how often he'd read them, but he was there on friday. you know, my problem in this class isn't keeping up, it's keeping slow, keeping from getting impatient. half the time i get paired for oral exercises with people who can't pronounce anything. i might as well do them on my own for all the good they do me. i'm not having a conversation, i'm reading off the answers and correcting mistakes.
look, i'm not cut out to be a teacher. mistakes don't make me want to teach. they make me want to make scathing comments.
I'M TRYING HERE. i'm very polite and compliant and participatory in class, i'm interested in swedish, i like the teacher personally, i even like the slow learners personally when i'm not gritting my teeth in the midst of an exercise. it would be nice if she could cut a little slack too.
or she can ask too much if she has to--but she's never going to get it.
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1 Feb 2005 02:31 pmhahaha, i just accidentally made photoshop open a pdf at a rather high resolution which made it 8500 pixels wide.
oops.
sooo since i have no income, i'm supposed to be eligible for an economic "hardship" loan deferment. how do i go about proving the amount of my income? i have no pay-stubs. i foresee a telephone call to the loan servicing center in my future.
also, i think i have to do this now:
If there is at least one person in your life whom you consider a close friend, and whom you would not have met without the internet, post this sentence in your journal.
and ALSO also i totally shouldn't have had mozzarella and pesto in arken today. now i'm feeling both nauseated and hungry. mental note: go light on the pesto.
oops.
sooo since i have no income, i'm supposed to be eligible for an economic "hardship" loan deferment. how do i go about proving the amount of my income? i have no pay-stubs. i foresee a telephone call to the loan servicing center in my future.
also, i think i have to do this now:
If there is at least one person in your life whom you consider a close friend, and whom you would not have met without the internet, post this sentence in your journal.
and ALSO also i totally shouldn't have had mozzarella and pesto in arken today. now i'm feeling both nauseated and hungry. mental note: go light on the pesto.