January 29, 2009
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1 I made the mistake of taking American Idol seriously.
2 Yeesh.
3 If you're a teacher, Am Id (if I may) parades the absolute worst contestants out to the American public for sport.
4 Never you mind. That was among my worst moments.
5 I keep trying to knock the DN out in three simplistic moves and I keep not being able to do that.
6 Makes for great drama.
7 Speaking of which: Yesterday I received applause for a lesson in which I acted out the tale of Pyramis and Thisbe.
8 I absolutely had to. The students had no idea of the magnitude of issues that would come down the pike with a study of Shakespeare.
9 I wound up playing both roles in which I became each character, including the lion.
10 I was really trying to make the stuff a bit more engaging, but in so doing became each character.
11 The original intention was to eat up some clock in a lesson that was doomed to time factors.
12 I assumed correctly that if I did a mini-play rather than a straight lecture, the students might become engaged and actually enjoy their learning.
13 Sometimes, boy.
14 I got so into it that I even over-did the lion, which is supposedly a more humble part.
15 As a [former] director, I either over-emphasized the part of the Lion, or I got completely into the part of Bottom. We had these block schedules which insisted.
16 Somehow I got absolutely absorbed.
17 I really needed to get through a long block, and was essentially holding on for dear life.
18 So I went under.
19 I once had some Olympic ice-skater who wrote me an essay about how each season she would learn how to "go under" during the trials.
20 VERY inspirational, even though I can remember neither her name or her event.
21 When I met her I knew she had no business in my stupid class.
22 She told me about her daily regime, which consisted of putting on ice-skates at around 5 a.m. and proceeding to skate until around midnight, every single day.
23 ...Which sounds inhumane until you see the average schedule of any college student these days.
24 Yeesh.
25 In a way, I believe I will leave it at that on a random Thursday. College students will know instantly what I am saying, and most others will "get" it.
26 I'd better go now.
27 I have more hoops.
28 Live life, love life.
29 Peace.
~H~
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