Discovery!

[highlyeccentric]

I have hit upon a method of ensuring a more balanced response to returned Anglo-Saxon essays. Normally, I read them through from the begining, become dismayed by all the very obvious errors therein, and grow so cranky at myself that by the time i get to the nice comments at the end I don't believe "well done, excellently researched essay with some great ideas". Then I stomp around the house for interminable lengths of time, cranky with myself for obvious errors, wishing i could be angry at my awesome teacher for being right, and wondering why i didn't stick with nice granddad lecturers who return essays with "well done Amy, you got 84 things right, but you discount Adela of Blois" and little more. And I write entries like this.

Melanie returned my essay on Þyncan yesterday. My new Balanced Approach entails me not looking at the essay immediately. In fact, it entails me not looking at it at all until both Kate and I are home. Then I get Kate to get the essay, flip it open to the back, tell me what the mark is and read me the comments at the end. Only when I have properly internalised this positive overall feedback am I allowed to read the detailed constructive comments. (And if the overall feedback turned out to be negative, then, well... I was going to be really really cranky anyway, wasn't I?)

As a result, today I am alternately stomping and smiling my way around my room.

Comments

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

Kaylee rocks out, man.

Actually, all the women in Firefly do, and in different ways each of them. It's quite a remarkable thing Whedon managed to do there. The menfolk to, but it's easier to do that when One is Man-shaped.

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

You think it's easier for man-shaped characters to rock out?

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

My inability to phrase things strikes again!

No, I mean it's easier to write male characters that don't fit into established patterns when the one doing the writing is a man. Does that make sense?

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes it does. I was just interested in your take on it because of my Music and Gender subject this semester. It made me think of the topic for Second Week Back - cock rock and gender bending.

My brain works in tangents even I can't explain sometimes.

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

I would happily talk about this, actually. It's a rant that's been building in my brain for some time.

Not right now, though, because: cock rock and gender bending? What. The. Fuck.

Awesome.

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

Dude, I don't even know. But I'm rather interested to see what comes up. I just hope I don't accidentally potentially insult Blake again :S (I don't think he knows I'm gay too, so when I said that a particular rendition of "You Don't Own Me" sounded like it belonged in the Rocky Horror Picture Show last week, I think he might have taken it the wrong way. In fact, the whole class may have taken it the wrong way.) You see, I'm not always so awesome with the phrasing myself.

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

Phrasing is for sissies! People should just have INCREDIBLE LEAPS OF INTUITION.

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

Damn straight!

I mean, what is with people refusing to be big mounds of psychic grey matter? It's just the height of rudeness these days!

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

Pssch. Kids these days, with their mundane methods of communication and their atrophied psyches.

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, think to me about it. It's almost like they don't want to have heads twice the size of their body-in-foetal-position, requiring tripod-like devices attached there to (with wheels of course) for basic motion.

Silly dark age kids with their feet that touch the floor. *grumbles*

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

I know! *sigh* It's nice to finally meet someone who understands these things.

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

You mean to say you don't have friends of similar cranial capacity (and girth)? How ever do you survive? My dear, poor, brave man; I am inspired to compose an interpretive dance, to be accompanied by a solo finger cymbal, in your honor.

*bows*

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

*bows*

That is well, then.