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JuokasKurvas Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 4:26 pm
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I would quite often have to add connectors, my dreams are usually much to fragmentary in memory.
Yea my 2nd grade teacher was probably the worst and she wasn't so bad. My 4th was crazy and got fired but she wasn't discouraging, and honestly she was probably really good for a couple of the kids who were disturbed themselves, like minds I guess. 8th grade core teacher was good but she made me feel really bad about myself (but not in an obvious way, I'm sure she never had any idea and definitely wouldn't have tried to intentionally discourage me). I had a lot of bad HS teachers, but again not on the discouraging students level. Just more on the not knowing enough about their own damn subjects to teach it level.
Hahaha, I love that sentence because that is SO how my mom thinks. But yea, as odd as it seems there's probably 3 Courtney's in Arizona who have a niece named McKenna. Possibly even more than one who have nieces named McKenna and Kaylee. But yea I still feel odd. I mean Gaia seems a lot less, "real" to me, what with hiding behind an avatar. I feel I shouldn't put too much of myself onto my avi, which is essentially what I think my entire profile is in a way.
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 11:36 pm
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Hm, let's see... first grade teacher was great until she got pregnant and went on leave; then we had a series of horrible substitutes. Second grade was a witch, third grade was amazing, fourth was kind of bitchy, but not too bad, fifth was awesome, sixth was awesome, seventh was awesome, eighth was awesome. Those are just homeroom though; I had a horrible social studies teacher in fourth, a horrible math teacher in sixth (who tried to convince my mom I was suicidal at a conference because I was quiet in class), a horrible math teacher in seventh, and probably the two worst ability suppressors in eighth, a math and a reading teacher. (the reading teacher I didn't normally have because I was in the gifted reading program with a different teacher, but sometimes when our teacher wasn't at school, we had the normal reading teacher with everyone else and he was a total a*****e).
As for high school, I actually had mostly good teachers. College is a different story. Probably as big a ratio of bad teachers there as in elementary school, and definitely the worst teachers I've ever had are at the university level.
My mom's like that too. XD I remember she used to tell us not to look at people in other cars while driving, or they might shoot us. A random guy who came to our house to buy stuff my mom's selling also almost made her cry because he started telling her I was an idiot for going to Japan and the radiation was going to kill everyone in the country twenty years from now. But yeah, I feel similarly about the avatar thing, especially considering my avatar is so much cuter than I am in real life. XD
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Kitsune Ketz Kwineight Captain
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JuokasKurvas Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 11:09 am
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Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 11:52 pm
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Wow, a straight jacket, yeah, that's pretty crazy.
I've rarely had TAs in my classes, and generally when I do, they just collect papers and stuff, not actually teach or anything. So no opinions on them. I have had a lot of grad students teach my lower division art classes though; only one wasn't a native English speaker, but he was still fluent and you could understand him as long as you listened carefully. He was nice either way; two of my grad student teachers were overly strict and kind of jerks, but they definitely were not my worst teachers at university. Nope, all my worst ones have either been professors or permanent faculty. There was my psycho computer literacy teacher who would get all freaked out if people didn't understand her directions, and I literally thought would bring a gun to class one day. Then there was Mexican Art History teacher who was the worst at teaching; she was nice, but no one could understand her lectures or figure out what was needed on tests. Only class I've ever cheated in. Then there was Japanese History professor, who was like a more mild version of Mexican Art History prof. Then my Art of 20th Century Professor was a real a*****e, would 'correct' my Japanese pronunciation by telling me Mariko was pronounced 'Makeyo' and Miyazaki was pronounced 'Mizazaki.' He also would act all layed back, then get pissed when we weren't performing at graduate student levels. And then there is my current Intermedia teacher, who I am literally considering reporting for harassment of students. I can just go on and on with all the crap he's done; it is literally how my friends in his class and I pass time, is complaining about him. Thankfully though I've never had a teacher who was not fluent in English, though I have had some with heavy accents.
Haha, wow. My dad told me that if there is a retaliation, I might not be able to fly to Japan, which I feel is at least a somewhat reasonable fear.
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Kitsune Ketz Kwineight Captain
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JuokasKurvas Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 4:30 pm
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The only thing I've ever had taught by TAs was a lower division poetry writing and lower division fiction writing class, and they were both wonderful. I've heard of some professors that most people dislike at UCD, but I never had any myself. While on my MA I've liked them all, but I haven't liked the teaching styles of them all. However per term we only ever have any one for 5 seminars, and generally it's less than that. Usually it's 3-4, sometimes 1-2 seminars. Depends on how many convenors are part of the course. My Writing Revolutions 2 course had four this term, so one only had a seminar and another only had two. However Modernism was led by just two people, so they each got 5 (though the canceled seminar week 1, because they knew half of us would bail anyhow as term 1 assessments weren't due until 2 days after that class, so technically one of them only held seminar 4 times).
I'd probably feel more regret than actual fear in that case, at least depending on what the retaliation was and how it effected me and those I know.
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Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 5:43 pm
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Kitsune Ketz Kwineight Captain
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JuokasKurvas Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 8:08 am
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 8:20 pm
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Kitsune Ketz Kwineight Captain
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JuokasKurvas Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 10:33 am
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:38 am
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Kitsune Ketz Kwineight Captain
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JuokasKurvas Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 9:53 am
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Yea, mainly why I'm vanished is even when I'm around and have free time I'm just tired. I read posts, think, ok I'll get back to that later, and then I get busy again. I feel like meme reading shouldn't trump Gaia, meme reading seems so pathetic. xd
Thanks, hopefully I'll get into the programme, I want to keep going with school while I'm still motivated and have energy, and I just don't think CA is the right place for me at this time. Too much drama back there for one, although I do miss several people and things. I feel either way I'd be torn, so weighting the options I'd like to stay in England, and school is the best justification for doing that. I got my preliminary mark back on my MA dissertation and I did fairly well, way better than any other paper I turned in this year so I'm fairly content. Glad to hear you are less tired, hopefully things will stay that way. ^_^
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 11:55 am
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Yup; makes sense though. When you're tired you just don't wanna do the things that require as much thought, and our conversations can get pretty thought-intense, especially when compared to meme-reading. XD I mean I'll still get on Gaia and update roleplays with Karma when I'm tired, because our roleplays are very quick, usually one-sentence posts, and only during pivotal times we need a lot of thought behind it. But Karma generally runs most of the plot (I'm more in charge of coming up with the world and intricacies of it, as well as filling in plot holes, but I generally do that stuff outside of roleplaying), like keeping the plot moving during the actual roleplay. I guess it's kinda like (though not always the case) that I'm the writer and she's the director.
Yes, good luck on that! I admire that you can still be motivated. I'm only in my forth year and I'm just so ready to be done. I'm afraid I'm not gonna graduate next semester though, not because I'm failing classes or didn't plan right, but because my adviser keeps putting off fixing an error on the school's part, so I'm not getting the right credit I need for a class, and then next semester two classes I need to graduate are at the same time, but I can fix that if I take another independent study instead. Prefer not to do it, but I'm going to have to unless they end up adding another Drawing class at a different time.
That sucks about the drama back in CA. I mean, it's your home; it's sad that things are pushing you away from it. Though you must tell me when you are back in CA, because Karma and I still want to go to Yaoi Con with you someday! And congrats on your dissertation too!
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Kitsune Ketz Kwineight Captain
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JuokasKurvas Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 7:53 am
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Yea, sometimes it's easy, other times (like now) it's not obvious where things can go next in a story so one really needs time and energy to be creative. We'll see how my creative energy is feeling tonight, if not I'll probably get back to it Tuesday as Monday will be a long day. Early morning doctor's appointment, late night band rehearsal followed by even later night party if I can be bothered at that point.
Thanks, yea I felt pretty burnt out after my undergrad, and honestly during the mid-end of my MA, however got pumped again toward the end and really into what I was writing and researching, so I want to keep going. In researching for my proposal I've found some great material and inspiration so I'm keen to dig into that. However I don't know why I thought my visa expired in April, but it expires in February. So that's going to be tricky in figuring out how I want to go about renewal, as by the time I know for sure I'm in the programme, and figure out loans, it might be too late to get it done here. I could do a tourist visa for 3 months which would give me more time to apply for stuff while staying here, but I couldn't work, which would be a little bit tight financially (could look for under the counter work but that's harder to find, particularly in a country not my own).
That sucks about your classes though, I kinda had a similar thing happen to me in my final quarter of UCD. However I talked to the English Dept and they signed off so that I could take an upper division course in lieu of the lower division course I'd kept putting off term after term (it just ALWAYS conflicted with something else). Which as I prefer upper div classes to lower div I was well pleased about. Hopefully you can figure it out though, it'd be a shame to have to continue longer (mainly in the having to pay more tuition) merely on a technical error.
Yea, I mean it's fine, the drama isn't too personal anymore. It's just thinking about the fact that 90% of my life revolved around a person I don't even speak to anymore, I realize I'd have to go find a whole new life in CA that isn't really the one I ever had in many ways. I think there's something for me personally atm to gain by being away from where I grew up. I do really miss Y-con though, it just passed the weekend before this (21st-23rd) and there was definitely nostalgia in seeing the statuses in the friends who went. And the bishie auction was apparently as amazing as always. Probably be a couple years before I'll be back in CA again after this Christmas, but we'll see. Going to need to figure out what PhD means schedule wise. After that I could possibly plan a trip home around Yaoi-con at some point. Flights are cheaper toward the end of October through winter, so for as long as Y-con stays an October thing (which it seems inclined to do, when I first started going it used to be an early September thing) it shouldn't be impossible depending on my work. But I will let you know when I'm around CA after you guys have graduated irregardless. Hopefully that'll be sooner rather than later. ^_^
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Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 5:35 pm
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Yup, fair enough. Good luck on the creative energy.
I've felt burnt out since Sophomore year, and it doesn't go away during summer breaks or anything. And it's just getting worse, ugh... somehow I'm still managing to keep my grades up though; if anything I'm getting less B's than I did my first two years, so I'm doing better I guess. Weird. But man, complications like that always suck, having to work things out based on a bunch of technicalities. Best of luck.
Haha, I could probably get away with what you did, except the class I need is the highest level Drawing class... which I'm in right now, but we need to take both it and the highest Life Drawing twice to have enough upper division Drawing credit to graduate. That's why it could work out still if I do Independent Study instead, because it isn't a specific class I need; it's just the only one that would fulfill the credit I need.
Okay, well also don't throw too much at yourself trying to fly to another country for one convention. We were thinking Yaoi Con because it would be near all of us, but wouldn't be too small or stupid (like Arizona's cons) or too big and crowded (like Anime Expo). Plus it's yaoi. XD
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Kitsune Ketz Kwineight Captain
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JuokasKurvas Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 3:24 am
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Blah, yea creative energy fail. I have to run to campus soon, so I probably won't get to it until tomorrow as tonight is the campus fireworks display. November the 5th comes early here. Remember remember the...third of November? ;P
Saw V for Vendetta recently, I thought it was amazing. I seriously would not have waited so long to see it if I had known it was that good. And totally my kind of movie. Because it doesn't just build off the November 5th gun plot treason, it incorporates the right kind of elements and themes that I generally go nuts for. Won't say in case you haven't seen it, but yea, I was well pleased. Plus gotta love a film that can so beautifully include the highlights of Tchaikovsky, 1812 Overture. ^_^
Yea, I've never been constantly burned out. Even with my MA it was more lack of recuperation time than seriously burnt out with school. I think this is why I realized I wanted to be an academic. I feel optimal in a learning/research environment. Anyhow hopefully I'll figure it out, and I guess I wouldn't mind an extended stay in CA since I'm not sure when I'll be able to go back again.
Yea, I remember that scenario. I still think it's silly that they require you to take the same course over and over again. I mean they should at least vary it a little bit and offer some element of new course. I dunno, I think if I was told to take the same English course twice I'd punch somebody. I don't have enough time in ten lifetimes to cover all the things I want to cover, I definitely don't want to be doing something twice. I mean with Art it's a little less annoying, because even if you are drawing the exact same things (hopefully not) there's still an element of process to gain. But still.
I know, and I wouldn't fly out just for that, but I do really want to go to Yaoi-con again, preferably before I'm so old I'm the aged creeper, lol. Though as people still think I'm somewhere in the 16-19 range I guess even if I'm 30 I should be ok to not look the creepy lecher for awhile. ^_~ But we'll see, it's all going to depend on what's the best time of year for me to travel to the States. Although if you ever get out to Europe there's always London Expo, hopefully will go to that one year, we'll see. razz
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