5 Things Learned in the First Week of Lecturing

[truepenny]

1. Talking for fifty minutes? Not a problem. (Talking coherently for fifty minutes? We'll get back to you on that.)

2. Chalk dust does not enhance the smell of Sin.

3. Dark brown corduroy is a cat fur MAGNET.

4. My posture improves dramatically when I'm wearing shoes with heels.

5. Although you might not think it, it's easier to learn 70+ names divided up into chunks of 16-19 than it is to learn 30 names in a lump.

Comments

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

Hee! I did not know your were a BPALista.

Perhaps Krampus would work better--it has a dust note. :P

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I don't WANT to placate the chalk dust.

[libskrat]

Bah. Fifty minutes? Try a once-a-week class. Two and a half hours, one break.

I am W-I-P-E-D.

'S fun, though, I gotta admit.

[shana.livejournal.com]

#3 only applies to the light hairs. The dark ones head for pastel cashmere sweaters.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Or my other pair of new pants, the pale beige chinos.

[heresluck]

Re #1: Told ya. *g*

Re #3: Oh heavens yes.

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

I feel dubious of the idea that anything could make Sin smell bad, but then, I've never tried layering it with chalk dust...

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

It doesn't make Sin smell BAD, it just doesn't harmonize.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

#3--It took you this long to notice that?

Since you lived through the week to post this, I'd call it a win, though.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I've never owned dark brown corduroy before. It's a learning experience.

[(Anonymous)]

I find that inevitably, when I'm teaching in rooms with blackboards, I'm wearing lots of black and am therefore covered in chalk dust. When I teach in classrooms with white dry-erase boards, then I somehow find myself wearing light clothes that I get covered with dry-erase marker. There is no way to win. And that's before you even GET to the cat fur!

Glad to hear it sounds like your digging the lecturing, though! Please remember that I think you're awesome.

the grrly grrl

[(Anonymous)]

Urgh, sorry 'bout the typo on "your" above. I promise I know the difference between the different ones. Really.

grrly grrl

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Over twenty years of life with two-toned cats has made me pretty jaundiced about what cat hair can do, to the point that when I look at something, I find I'm calculating what the fur will do to it. Anything with a nap means the stuff might as well be welded into place, for instance.

I may never be able to buy new furniture at this point, since I'll spend all my time looking at upholstery fabric and saying "But this will show the light hairs, and this will show the dark, while this patterned fabric here will show both...and the leather and vinyl will simply develop a static charge and attract every cat hair in the house that's not securely attached to something else."

However, when you go from dealing with the effects of short cat hair to the effects of dealing with long cat hair, it becomes much, much worse.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I find the combination of long and short cat hair--not to mention my own hair--particularly egregious.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Word.