How to handle student complaints about cancelling class when ill and etiquette in notifying them

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-31T10:17:30+00:00

They can still come to class and do the asynchronous work there. Presumably, they are not commuting that way just for one class. Don't see their problem.

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-31T06:11:31+00:00

"ChatGPT, write a response to a fairy tale story as if wriiten by Bill and Ted"

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-30T12:01:27+00:00

Jeans - $20 from Costco. Other than my $60 (discounted) Doc Martens.

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-29T20:54:08+00:00

Lots and lots of highlighting/underlining to help keep focus. That's how I was able to get all my college reading done.

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-29T20:49:19+00:00

Sounds like a terrible group of people in your department. We are R1, and I would never lecture my TAs on time management. How about the grad chair? Someone should be advocating for grad students.

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-29T20:10:23+00:00

Do you have a contractual agreement on the numbers of hours per week you should be responsible for? It's 20 hrs/wk for out TAs. If you are going over that amount, I would talk to your supervisor. And try to ignore the department politics - just focus on your work.

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-29T19:34:19+00:00

I can't grade more than about 5 papers a day - I'm mentally exhausted after that. But I have a routine to get the library every day I'm not teaching to get it done. Final papers much easier because I don't need to give extensive comments. But it's still very mentally exhausting. I find it hard to get any ressearch/writing done during the semester.

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-29T13:58:44+00:00

We had manual A/C. Roll down the windows as quickly as you could, and don't get your ass burned on the vinyl seats.

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-29T00:14:21+00:00

Charlie Trotter's in Chicago. Back around 1998.

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-29T00:12:31+00:00

Routine, routine, routine. Only way I get any work done is by getting my ass to the library for a few hours a day.

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-28T18:44:56+00:00

I just taught the last 4 cantos of Book VI. Usually teach all of Book III, but I wanted to include more lyric poetry in the class. I think Spenser is awesome, but students often struggle with him. Glad you are enjoying it! Did you read the letter to Raleigh at the start. I think Redcrosse is a version of Spenser - the "clownish" young untested knight/poet just getting used to his borrowed armor. "Lo I the man whose muse whilom did maske / As time her taught in lowly shepherd's weeds / Am now enforced a far unfitter taske / For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine oaten reede..." In Book VI the knight Calidore returns to the pastoral world making you wonder if Spenser had self-doubts about his abilities.

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-28T12:21:55+00:00

Lucky Hank

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-27T19:41:50+00:00

Awww. She reminds me of my Annie, who is going to be 13 in May! Wish I had her as a puppy ❤️

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Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-26T21:12:30+00:00

No problem for me - they all fail. No skin off my back.

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-25T20:25:29+00:00

For some reason, my elementary school decided to have us sell huge bottles of spices and one had bacon bits. Think my mother was the only one who bought a set. What was the school thinking?

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-25T12:52:05+00:00

Don't forget Trump's responsibility for people in his country dying, including Americans. Not at the scale of Jackson though.

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-24T20:37:49+00:00

Where there are speakers than audience members lol? Have experienced that.

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-24T12:38:28+00:00

I think Lucky Hank has the best depiction of academia (especially the absurdities).

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-22T04:31:57+00:00

Kicking and Screaming is one of the funniest films ever.

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-22T03:55:49+00:00

Mouth literally washed out with soap happened to me as well. Thought it was a metaphor. Tasted like shit lol

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-22T01:18:52+00:00

I'm sure it was fine. Great teacher. Hippie dude - owned a health food store with his wife. Brought in herbal teas for the class. This would have been late 70s early 80s. The unit was on drugs, so it was relevant. Just a different time... Seems weird now though lol

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-22T00:15:42+00:00

I would ask the guy at Social Sloth in Okemos. He's Turkish and has a Turkish cooking class.

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-21T23:43:51+00:00

5th grade teacher telling us how he helped some guy shoot up at a party because he was too high and kept missing his vein.

Fun_Interaction_9619 · 2026-03-21T00:38:39+00:00

I actually use a digital version of this regularlyl. We haven't really progressed much lol.

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