![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Probably Just Me...
Aug. 19th, 2005 06:27 pm...but what the hell is it with students getting to say things to you like: "Well, of course, if you're just going to take some little tiny thing I said and blow it up all out of proportion, and attack me in front of everybody, then go right on ahead and do it..." or: "So basically, you're not reading it at all, are you? You're just skimming it, and not giving it the consideration it deserves. Because I worked very hard on this, and I expect you to respect that."
Buh-WUH?
The second instance was on Wednesday--Nihilist Propaganda Guy, of course. And I was just barely able to stop myself from replying: "Well, no. Because A) I CAN read that fast, B)Your usual Messianic rant with Superman as mouthpiece rather than yourself is neither all that difficult to process or a valid interpretation of an episode of Smallville, and C) What the FUCK? Do you seriously think you ever get to say shit like that to people in the REAL world, you fucking insane dilletante?"
Okay, fine. But the first instance was earlier today, from a guy who did the (second-)most half-assed presentation on Men With Brooms I've seen thus far--another guy had just done the first-most, ten minutes previously--and obviously didn't want/care to be asked to elaborate on an amazingly provocative throwaway statement he'd already made about Paul Gross's apparent ability to get Telefilm funding for anything he chooses to pull out of his bum on short notice. And while I'm willing to cut him more slack than NPG because he seems to genuinely CARE about the subject under discussion (something NPG wouldn't be caught dead doing, 'cause it's simply too uncool for...oops! SCHOOL!), it still really, really, really gets up my MOTHERFUCKING NOSE.
I am so sick of this shit it's sort of startling. And this is only my first semester back at work, folks; only halfway through the course. Man.
Anyone else in the hallowed halls of Academe getting this type of noli-me-tangere-bitch crap thrown at them whenever they have the gall to question a student closer than said student likes to be questioned, or ask them to--gee, I dunno--do what they were damn well asked to do, or IS it just me? I'd actually like to know.
Buh-WUH?
The second instance was on Wednesday--Nihilist Propaganda Guy, of course. And I was just barely able to stop myself from replying: "Well, no. Because A) I CAN read that fast, B)Your usual Messianic rant with Superman as mouthpiece rather than yourself is neither all that difficult to process or a valid interpretation of an episode of Smallville, and C) What the FUCK? Do you seriously think you ever get to say shit like that to people in the REAL world, you fucking insane dilletante?"
Okay, fine. But the first instance was earlier today, from a guy who did the (second-)most half-assed presentation on Men With Brooms I've seen thus far--another guy had just done the first-most, ten minutes previously--and obviously didn't want/care to be asked to elaborate on an amazingly provocative throwaway statement he'd already made about Paul Gross's apparent ability to get Telefilm funding for anything he chooses to pull out of his bum on short notice. And while I'm willing to cut him more slack than NPG because he seems to genuinely CARE about the subject under discussion (something NPG wouldn't be caught dead doing, 'cause it's simply too uncool for...oops! SCHOOL!), it still really, really, really gets up my MOTHERFUCKING NOSE.
I am so sick of this shit it's sort of startling. And this is only my first semester back at work, folks; only halfway through the course. Man.
Anyone else in the hallowed halls of Academe getting this type of noli-me-tangere-bitch crap thrown at them whenever they have the gall to question a student closer than said student likes to be questioned, or ask them to--gee, I dunno--do what they were damn well asked to do, or IS it just me? I'd actually like to know.
