Of Devious Lecturers

[highlyeccentric]

David Juste wanted to know why he doesn't get a mention on my blog, when Melanie, Dan and JP have all been extensively discussed. Being 1200 words into an essay for David at the moment, and having spent the last week trying to write the damned thing, I feel now is the appropriate time to inform the world of his qualities.

David Justse is a devious, devious man.*
Only some kind of twisted mind would, when faced with my publicly declared intention to write a shoddy essay for his subject and save my energies for things more important, resolve to improve my studently endeavours by threatening to consult a teacher whose standards he knows I will turn myself inside out in an attempt to meet. And the thing is, he has a perfectly legitimate reason to do so: he's a high medieval science scholar, and I've declared that I'm removing myself from his time and territory by writing my essays for "medieval cosmology" on Anglo-Saxon topics. So it's perfectly normal for him to ask an Anglo-Saxonist to read over it for him and tell him if i'm off my nut.
Except that the look of sheer glee on his face when he announced his intention to do so suggests to me that he knew exactly what effect that would have on my essay.
In fact, the essay has pulled up its socks so far that i'm now going to specifically ask Melanie to read over it, regardless of David's eventual decision. I've been putting so much time into sorting my footnotes out, i feel someone ought to tell me how I'm going, and I only know one teacher who is persnickety enough to care about comma placement or how to construct a footnote in which you've quoted both an edition and a separate translation of a text.

So, in conclusion: a good teacher inspires their students to raise their standards, i think we are all agreed on this. What can we say of a teacher who employs devious means such as these?

(of course, the other question is: was i going to be capable of writing a sloppy essay on an anglo-saxon topic anyway?)

*disclaimer: I don't normally insult academics in public posts. Rest assured David is a special case, and he will probably take it as a compliment anyway. It is a compliment, actually.

Comments

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

(of course, the other question is: was i going to be capable of writing a sloppy essay on an anglo-saxon topic anyway?)

(No.)

His expression when he declared his intention to check your essay over with Mel was...gleeful, to say the least. Heh. Heh. Heh.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

you deleted the drunk comment!

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

I did! I thought you would prefer me not to clutter your journal with drunken ramblings.

Feel free to restore it, if you like. :D

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

i didn't know i could *do* that

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

i cannot do that

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

You could re-post it, if you wanted.

Or, next time I get drunk I can be cute on your 'journal again. :P

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

Hey, Goblin? Miss Amy says that you took one look at one of my icons and instantly knew I was a prime candidate to be a partner in innuendo and dirty banter.

Is this true? If so, which icon?

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

stop being paranoid :P i meant that in a general sense... like "one look at your face", except on the internet.

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

this isn't paranoia
this is me being curious
fine line

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

*shrugs*

curious away, then...

BREAKFAST TIME!

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

I don't remember saying that. It doesn't sound untrue, but I don't remember any specifics. :)

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

No; sadly, knowing me, it doesn't sound untrue :P

*points to last comment on page*
memory jogging?

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

*wanders off to take a look at your icons*

*returns*

I don't think it was the icons, or anything specific. I think what our resident blonde meant was that I took 'one look at you' in a metaphorical sense. Which is certainly true enough.

You do have some neat icons.

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

just to confirm, do vague plans still hold for tomorrow?

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

well, i dunno

i'd forgotten that tomorrow was a public holiday.

whaddya reckon?

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

I'm still up for it. I have to go into uni to do some work anyway. Have to get a composition started for Digital Music Techniues, and I can ONLY use a Mac for it because we're ONLY allowed to use GarageBand. And, as I haven't been completely converted to Macdom yet don't have a Mac... yet... this means war. Or using the Uni's; whichever is cheaper.

le sigh

So, I was planning on going in around 9/10ish and working until lunch, and then going on to see you (what is this? Me planning? There are so many things wrong with those words). Which would make meeting up with you at about 1 or 2 maybe. Unless I finish early, which means maybe more of a lunch date? I dunno (that's more like it :D).

Unless, of course, you were planning on taking the whole day off to work on essays and stuff, or just have plans at a certain time. That'd be completely understandable; I think the campus has, en masse, been relatively brain dead this past week. At least, most of my friends have been, and I tend to have at least nerdyish friends. I've been pretty dead, too, which is why today and a bit of yesterday were devoted to getting the foundations down on my website... and getting Peter's birthday present :P AND HAVING PANCAKE BREAKFAST XD

I'm just now wondering if the SUESS Labs will in fact be open, it being a public holiday and all... eep. They were open all holidays, and I just sort of assumed :S

Um, yeah... so whadda you think?

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

if you are happy to *make* plans then i'm happy to be Planned.

i am brain dead but malleable :P

aside from having to go to the library at some point, i am easy.

is Fisher open before 1, though?

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

SUESS Lab*** whoops :P

I don't know. I haven't ever been in on Public Holidays. Only weekdays and Sundays. I'll check though.

Ok, so what about we plan on meeting at 2 outside Fisher, and if things change, we make sure we both have our mobiles where we can find and feel them? :P

Is an hour enough time for you in the library to get done what you need?

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

should be :)

good plan.

i get up in the morning, do my translations, have lunch, go to fisher, meet you, have hot chocolate or something, come home, write essay.

PLAN

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

IiiindEEdy :D

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

WHEEEE!

I GET TO PLAY WITH RANDOM DAVID!

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

WOOT!

MISS AMY IS GOING TO PLAY WITH ME!

... WHY DOES THAT SOUND SO DIRTY IN MY HEAD?!

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

because you are a dirty minded little man, that's why

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

XD

you know me so well, Miss Amy.

perhaps... too well?

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

one does not have to know you well in order to observe this, my dear Random David.

i mean, take B for example. he just had to take one look at your LJ icon and decided you were a candidate for dirty minded banter.

deep knowledge of your psyche is not required. :P

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

... which icon was that? I didn't think I had any particularly dirty icons...

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

i dunno, you'll have to ask him

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it was the "I'm going to scald your crotch" icon? That's the only one that's even vaguely dirty, but even that's more "I'm gonna throw coffee in your lap because you're a pervert", unless I used it in a dirtier way.. which I may have. It does have the word "crotch" in it, after all.

*snigger*

The only other icon of mine that's been mentioned (to my knowledge and recollection) was the "Never Meant To" icon, which was one of our first Comment Topics. Not particularly dirty though... more of a sad apology.

I guess I have to ask now, otherwise the question will eat through my brain like acid. Sweet, sweet acid-linked-to-things-dirty.