Holy crap I have not looked at this journal in a long time. Wow. The 2009 entries don't seem too mortifying, but I'm afraid to go back any further than that. I think there are entries on here somewhere from teenage me. I do not find teenage me particularly adorable.

How on earth do I still remember that password?

After my long absence, I come to you with more tales of tutoring.

On Wednesday, I was working in the ESL lab. One of the students was on the part of her paper where we discuss grammar. Note, I am a tutor, not a proofreader, so I don't actually get to tell people how to fix their grammar. Instead, I get to use a variety of teaching tools that ( Read more... )

I spent about ten minutes today trying to figure out a delicate way to explain to an ESL student that the term 'Cupid's love shaft' might be best avoided.

I love my job.

Dear f-list,

Ya'll are awesome. For serious. Thank you so much.

Bleaaaargh.

So looking forward to going away this weekend.

Browsing yelp, I realized that the only retail context in which I think "crusty" is an acceptable mode of behavior for the staff is in bookstores. I've done both service and retail and, much as it sucks, you do have to be "on" all the time so, while I do have a great deal of sympathy for why someone might be crusty while, say, trying to sell things ( Read more... )

Hrm. So, someone sent me a documentary she made, and I wish I remembered who she is and how I know her. Since my boss was also in the e-mail, I suspect that I know her through work. Since I looked her up and she's 17, I suspect she's one of my students. I also suspect she was a student in one of the classes I TA, since I almost never give my e-mail ( Read more... )

Anyone on my f-list who knows me in real life may have heard me, in the past few months, babble like a deranged chipmunk about the awesomeness that is Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage. It's a musical. About Beowulf. Kind of. It played at the Ashby Stage for a while, and they're doing one last show at the Roda in Berkeley before heading out to ( Read more... )

Department: ANTHRO
Course Number: 160AC
Course Title: FORMS OF FOLKLORE
Units: 4.0
Grade: PCredit Code: PN ( Read more... )

Trader Joe's baked thai tofu sliced up and eaten cold is delicious beyond all reason.