March 16th: payday and movie night
[ posted by mcdeviltoast ]
Day 181
In two separate classes, when asked what they would buy if they had a pot of gold, students answered "Beauty." I'm not sure if they meant plastic surgery or if it's synonomous with "go to spa" but it was odd nonetheless. Apparently it's in the eye of the beholder and the pocket of the gold broker.
I got a call from Jenn which was nice as always, helps me feel connected. It keeps me assured I'm still known in the 275 loop.
I lost my patience a little with the last class, forever begging them to be quiet and even ranted a little under my breath, "Little emperors and little empresses. This is what happens when you don't have siblings to keep you in check, you become little fucking brats." They found it amusing to play with coins while I was lecturing, letting them fall to the floor and make noise. I began taking them away, and by the end of class, Mr. Willis had about five kuai.
Earlier I had asked Rose if I had to teach on Thursday since some students had mentioned they had exams. I did not. Good news, for that was my dreaded "long day." Now I had all St. Patrick's Day to do whatever. We got paid and went to the hotel for sustenance. The Dongzhou crew met us there, even Andy, and we ate, drank and laughed, vented about our bad students.
They cabbed it back and I rode to the DVD store to return the bunk copies of "Godfather II" and "Eyes Wide Shut"(it glitched about two minutes from the end credits), picked up hopefully better copies of the same, along with some others. Heather and I watched "Silver City," a decent if somewhat disorganized comic mystery that unabashedly lampoons Bush. Chris Cooper is spot-on as the "user-friendly" gubernatorial candidate, Richard Dreyfuss as the film's Karl Rove, and too many more to namedrop. Billy Zane is in it, but underused, but of course I'm biased because he's the rock star of the universe.
Sent a happy birthday text message to Tom Willis's cell phone, then folded into cookie dough blankets and snored away my cares.
In two separate classes, when asked what they would buy if they had a pot of gold, students answered "Beauty." I'm not sure if they meant plastic surgery or if it's synonomous with "go to spa" but it was odd nonetheless. Apparently it's in the eye of the beholder and the pocket of the gold broker.
I got a call from Jenn which was nice as always, helps me feel connected. It keeps me assured I'm still known in the 275 loop.
I lost my patience a little with the last class, forever begging them to be quiet and even ranted a little under my breath, "Little emperors and little empresses. This is what happens when you don't have siblings to keep you in check, you become little fucking brats." They found it amusing to play with coins while I was lecturing, letting them fall to the floor and make noise. I began taking them away, and by the end of class, Mr. Willis had about five kuai.
Earlier I had asked Rose if I had to teach on Thursday since some students had mentioned they had exams. I did not. Good news, for that was my dreaded "long day." Now I had all St. Patrick's Day to do whatever. We got paid and went to the hotel for sustenance. The Dongzhou crew met us there, even Andy, and we ate, drank and laughed, vented about our bad students.
They cabbed it back and I rode to the DVD store to return the bunk copies of "Godfather II" and "Eyes Wide Shut"(it glitched about two minutes from the end credits), picked up hopefully better copies of the same, along with some others. Heather and I watched "Silver City," a decent if somewhat disorganized comic mystery that unabashedly lampoons Bush. Chris Cooper is spot-on as the "user-friendly" gubernatorial candidate, Richard Dreyfuss as the film's Karl Rove, and too many more to namedrop. Billy Zane is in it, but underused, but of course I'm biased because he's the rock star of the universe.
Sent a happy birthday text message to Tom Willis's cell phone, then folded into cookie dough blankets and snored away my cares.
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[ posted by mcdeviltoast @ 3/16/2005 09:17:00 PM ]
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