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Stumpage Reports
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Friday, November 22, 2002 :::
Chavez the Self-Doubter
In one of my classes we recently got back drafts of our major projects. The professor had been harping on our "Editorial Statements," a key part of our project that is supposed to be concise, active voice, third person, you'll have to rewrite it a bunch, etc. Written in the margin of my editorial statement was the comment "Very Impressive!" My professor can be a smart ass and we frequently trade barbs in class. I immediately honed in on the two sentences next to his remark and thought, "What did I screw up that he is being a smart-ass about?"
Two weeks later, before class we are trading around drafts, soliciting input and helping each other interpret professor's chicken scratchings.
Indian Captivity Narrative Girl: Wow Tom, you got a 'pretty impressive.'
Me: Yeah, I'm trying to figure what I screwed up that he's being a smartass about.
ICNG and Three Other Girls*, in unison (looking at me like I'm strange, I get a lot of that in class): Tom, that's there because you did a good job!
Me: Oohhhh...
* I could think up nicknames for the other three girls, but they would be too long and reveal more about me than about them.
Reading:
Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove (fun!)
South Carolina Loyalists in the American Revolution by Robert Lambert (not so fun)
::: posted by tom at 1:02 PM
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