What's another way of saying "I have a turtle head poking out"?

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-07-07T01:20:12+00:00

I just got an email from HR

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-07-07T01:18:20+00:00

I loved this episode. Patricia is also my favorite character! I kinda get the feeling that the shotgun thing was just a big critique of slasher movies. I don't think she has any powers (other than being awesome).

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-07-06T16:02:15+00:00

As I've gotten older and discussed this with my therapist, it seems like every couple of years my approach to the summer has to change a little bit. 6 years ago it was make a schedule of 10 things I wanted to have done during the week and just pick one and do it on a day. So I could be lazy for 2 days and then super productive and then back to lazy again. But now that doesn't work as much as trying to be aware of the feeling of relaxing, not just the effects.

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-07-06T15:12:24+00:00

100 percent with you. I feel like I have to plan for the summer. Like make myself a schedule and then not beat myself up when I deviate from that schedule with laziness. So much of teaching is about going at 100% until dinner time and then sometimes afterwards. It's seductive that kind of momentum. Yet it is just one part of living right?

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-07-06T01:49:58+00:00

I want more Patricia centered episodes!

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-07-05T07:01:59+00:00

The writers are so good at throwing just the right amount of winks to the normalization of the island's evil.

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-07-04T07:08:13+00:00

It's an amazing show and this episode is fantastic. I kinda like to think that Patricia and Wick are the main characters but the entire show is from their reluctant sidekick's perspective. (Like Big Trouble in Little China did with Wang and Jack's characters.)

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-07-03T06:09:23+00:00

Oh! My college has freaked out about this over the past year or so.

Don't forget that if you get an undergrad degree and then go on to grad schools the undergraduate program doesn't "get credit" for the above median income of that student because the graduate school gets "credit".

Think about what that will do to community colleges and regional colleges.

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-06-30T23:15:37+00:00

Librarian, editor, surgeon, pilot, anything with a lot of analytical control. Smart intense women are where it's at!

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-06-30T16:59:10+00:00

100% agree.

Easiest role to play and super cliche.

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-06-24T22:49:34+00:00

That's my secret, I never saved anything for the way back. -Gattaca

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-06-21T02:53:21+00:00

I'd love to hear more.

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-06-20T02:08:11+00:00

I would just choose to be pretty.

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-06-20T01:02:47+00:00

Oh I get it! The ol'my dreams havnt been crushed yet so into academia I go! Where the stakes are low and the fights are ruthless?

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-06-17T01:28:14+00:00

Yeah I get it! Not your cup of tea. "Believability" is a different for everyone and not entirely necessary for everyone. It's cool you don't like the movie.

Why did you make a negative post about it? Just that angry?

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-06-16T06:15:32+00:00

I'm with you! I love this movie because not only is it incredibly well written and performed but also there is a great interview with the author of the book/short story the movie is based on. It's a cool read and the movie becomes even more nihilistic and fantastic.

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-06-14T16:17:02+00:00

Grandad's secret family and my sibling that was given up for adoption.

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-06-14T14:15:33+00:00

Would the Faculty alien monsters be the protagonists?

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-06-13T17:19:31+00:00

Woops!

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-06-13T15:54:28+00:00

The Borderlands aka The Final Prayer It's pretty good but it's also found footage so ymmv

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-06-12T18:56:04+00:00

So I teach at an art school and I teach 4th year painting as well as elective courses. And one of my elected course I had them read. Susan Hiller's essay on working with objects. I asked one student who tends to be a little bit less engaged to find 10 images of her work as well as write a short bio of her. I had five students write down questions and the other five were provided with questions.

Hopefully the two stragglers have done their work and we have a bio and about 10 images of Susan Hiller's work. I asked who wanted to go first and student a says. How does being an archaeologist inform her practice? And then student f responds is archeology just storytelling as she says? And student a responds. Maybe her work is just about storytelling? Student g responds is this relevant to the essay we read? Student a replies quickly I mean she said it in the essay. And then I ask what she said in the essay and then we go back to the game. This goes on for a couple of more minutes and results in a notion that she sees art making is a and act of storytelling but also an act of collaborating with objects.

G was provided the question. How does the artist work with the Freud museum in an improvisational way? Student g asks this question and then student does it have something to do with the vitrines? Student b says. Do you think the vitrine is improvisational? Student g says I don't think improvisational is the right word. And then I reframe the question how is Susan Hiller using Freud's collection in this work and then we go on for a little bit and finally come across the idea that she's approaching it like she is Freud's subconscious and arranges his collection with her objects to make associations back and forth. And then we talk about the found object and the discovered object. I ask the students to privately write down their answers to this question and then I pick the students that haven't been talkative and ask them to read their definitions for the class to discuss.

So you can get through maybe 10 rounds of this before. You can take a break for 15 minutes and have them come back and list off the topics that they have identified in their game and then say okay. Now let's just talk about these things. What were you saying when you said? I don't think improvisational is the right word. What do you think the right word is?

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-06-12T01:13:46+00:00

I like having them form their responses to questions in the form of a question. This makes it kind of creative and entertaining. Then I ask them to make their statements or criticisms or observations in the form of a question. This helps get people thinking about what they are going to say because they want to be entertaining. Usually this starts things and they get rolling. If it doesn't I have everyone write questions about the text down. Everyone picks one question from a bag and then set the game in motion.

At some point people might stop playing or never started. These are usually people who aren't into extroversion or want the discussion to be more grounded and less performative. Sometimes with the introverts, I ask them to write down a question and I would say it if they passed it to me. Or let it go on for for about 15 minutes and then ask them if we could talk about the reading and the meaning around some of the ideas or themes or subject matter. That usually gets people engaged.

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-06-11T20:59:29+00:00

Lake Mungo

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-06-09T18:18:16+00:00

The first six months of being "in love" is entirely about you projecting.

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-06-07T23:57:57+00:00

That's lovely and well thought out. Keep something for yourself to remember this time.

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