Today, there were a surprising number of students that actually showed up for classes. I was impressed. So impressed, in fact, that I let my class of primarily seniors color with crayons
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LOLOLOL that's hilarious. I think crayons can save the world.
Yesterday I was a supervisor for a students' club meeting; there were frightening amounts of free donuts and cake. What was more frightening was how much of this they ate, cackling happily all the time. I ate ONE plain donut and felt my heart go, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!!!" I saw one girl down three chocolate covered ones.
Oh man, I KNOW! My kids eat HORRIBLE CRAP ALL DAY LONG. I just tried to eat two Cadbury Creme Eggs a few days ago and gave myself a stomachache. From two Cadbury Creme Eggs! And just tonight, a handful of jelly beans did the same thing.
Meanwhile, I'll watch my students scarf down bags of Doritos, candy bars, energy drinks, and soda without batting an eye. I remember those days...
I stand by the theory that everyone, regardless of age, should spend a half hour each week colouring. This is why I bought my pack of a bazillion crayons and am always scouting for new colouring books.
There's something therapeutic in scratching coloured-wax onto paper.
I wasn't ever hung over in college, but my freshman year I clearly remember how the physical anthropology course I took included a human evolution coloring book as one of the texts. (Not this version, but on that level in terms of complex concepts presented in graphical format.) And I got some really nice colored pencils -- including neon colors, and metallic gold and silver -- and every morning in the hour and a half I had between my first class of the day and my next one, I'd be sitting there at my desk in my dorm room, drinking a Dr Pepper and watching the previous night's taped TNG episode and coloring in my book. I kept that up the next semester, after I was no longer taking the course, because it was just so much fun. (Still got that book, though I don't recall if I managed to color in all the pages or not.)
Oh, that sounds like the coolest coloring book EVER!!! One of my students told me that there's some class on campus where the required textbook list just says: scissors, crayons, glue, etc. I forget what class it was, but at some point, I TOTALLY WANT IN.
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Yesterday I was a supervisor for a students' club meeting; there were frightening amounts of free donuts and cake. What was more frightening was how much of this they ate, cackling happily all the time. I ate ONE plain donut and felt my heart go, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!!!" I saw one girl down three chocolate covered ones.
Ah. Youth.
YAY for muscle relaxers!
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Meanwhile, I'll watch my students scarf down bags of Doritos, candy bars, energy drinks, and soda without batting an eye. I remember those days...
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There's something therapeutic in scratching coloured-wax onto paper.
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