Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Classes on Penmanship

It would be great if when professors tore your work apart, the scribbles they use to express their advise was legible. I understand that many have 150 or more papers to read through, but helpful comments are hardly helpful when you can't read them

PS I still hate my English teacher!! But I WIN!!! FUCKER!!!

The other day, he was going around telling people things he thought they should do differently on their research papers, and I hadn't turned in a proposal. I knew he was gonna yell at me, but I had it printed, I just forgot to get it. To be honest, I'm sure he would have had no problem with me going back to the dorm to get it, but that would not be cool because I knew I still hadn't done it correctly (due to the fact that fuck face sent me a very UNHELPFUL response when I emailed him asking for guidelines on how to format it in accordance to his precise standards). Instead, when he approached me and asked whether I had brought it, I said, without even looking at him, "No, I forgot it in my room, and I was going to ask you if I could go get it, but I didn't figure you'd let me anyway." I heard him sigh in the way that adults do when they give up a child, deeming them unreachable. "Well then I'm not even going to talk to you about it." he grumbled, as if I was supossed to be heart broken or something. That's what I wanted.
It really is unfortunate that he is such a dickweed, because he seemed so nice otherwise. I thought he actually liked me (as a student and nothing more, just for clarification) at the begining of the year. That is, until I gave up on beating Athena and just let her be a long-winded, annoying presenter when asked even the simplest question.*****Now I just sit there and pointedly roll my eyes whenever she opens her mouth. It really does suck, though, because it's not like me to hate English, and he's making me do just that. Also, I had wanted to learn HTML, and we are doing that at the end of the term, and I'm still gonna hate him. Ha...I can use what he teaches us against him. I'll revamp my site and include all kinds of rude things poking fun at him.

*****Here is a made up example of why Athena is a long-winded, annoying presenter when asked even the simplest question:

Teacher: What color is an apple?
Athena (using tons of hand and arm gestures): Well, I believe that it really depends upon the type of apple you are talking about. If it is the kind which is the same color of a firetruck, for example, then that would make it, obviously, a red apple. However, if the apple you're talking about is the same color as the grass, then it would be a green apple. (while you're imagining this, please add in long pauses at awkward places, as well as stupid smiles and giggles that are completely unprovoked).
After all this, she may or may not turn to her group members (who were also addressed when the question was asked) and ask 'What do you guys think?"

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