Wednesday, September 30, 2015; Meme
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bearshorty 30 Days of Me Meme
Day 16: What is in your purse or wallet
I have one of those over the shoulder small bags instead of a purse and it really just fits wallet, glasses, keys, lipstick and occasionally phone. And a bunch of receipts find their way there.
My wallet has my IDs, credit cards, grocery store cards, health insurance card, a Metrocard (a subway card), bank cards, photos of Tanya and a few of my friends, cash and coins. Also a few business cards of my doctor, dentist, eye doctor and Tanya's doctor. A library card. I think that's it.
30 Days of Fanfic Meme
16 – Summaries – Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?
Summaries are very necessary. A lot of people will either read or pass on your story with summary alone. I neither like nor hate them, they are just a necessity. I usually try to summarize my story briefly - main characters, situation etc. I also found that if I say in the summary that my story is AU I get more hits on AO3. I did use song lyrics once - but I think that got misleading.
Life
We are at my parents' for half a week this week and yesterday afternoon we were at the playground here. We noticed a bunch of big teenage boys hanging out in one corner of one of the play areas for a while, where some stairs and slides are. Later on, when Tanya was running around in that area, climbing the stairs, I saw that they either spray painted or kind of burned the phrase "Thug Life" in big letters on two of the stairs. This made me roll my eyes so hard. Yes, privileged white teenage boys who live in a really safe area of firmly middle-class private houses on Staten Island, who most likely never knew either hunger or true hardship in their entire life, you are so "thug" that you had to paint a very clean and nice playground to show how tough you really are. Please.
We are a month into a semester and I already have that one student who feels she is above it all. And I knew what kind of student she was going to be from the very first day - I was just hoping for the best. Our students are allowed only four absences a semester by department policy (it's really six, but the students don't know that). She is already absent 3 times. This is the girl who wanted me to really pay attention to her writing sample because she couldn't understand why she was placed in a lower class of Basic Composition. After all she was a transfer student who took 100 and 101 already in a different school (really not the same as our classes) and she was a history major who knew how to write papers. This is the girl who thought Paper 2 was due this week and not next week and obviously didn't do a lot of revision despite both syllabus and assignment question being very clear on due dates and all the work she must still do.
And she so far turned in a short rough draft 1, a short final paper 1 (automatic fail), and a short rough draft 2. She emailed me yesterday with the late homework of one paragraph revision and told me that she might (might) stop by my office hours Thursday to really see why she failed her first paper. Other than shortness, it was pretty crappy too with terrible topic sentences that mentioned the author despite my comments on the rough draft that she shouldn't mention the author in the topic sentence but really express her paragraph idea. I would love for her to actually show up to my office hours. Maybe she will stop feeling so special and start actually doing the work. I also sent back her paragraph, where she only revised the first sentence, with comments on pretty much every sentence and quote telling her just how much she actually needs to revise. Her second quote had little to do with her first quote or her connection. Sigh. I really hope she learns to prioritize.
Day 16: What is in your purse or wallet
I have one of those over the shoulder small bags instead of a purse and it really just fits wallet, glasses, keys, lipstick and occasionally phone. And a bunch of receipts find their way there.
My wallet has my IDs, credit cards, grocery store cards, health insurance card, a Metrocard (a subway card), bank cards, photos of Tanya and a few of my friends, cash and coins. Also a few business cards of my doctor, dentist, eye doctor and Tanya's doctor. A library card. I think that's it.
30 Days of Fanfic Meme
16 – Summaries – Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?
Summaries are very necessary. A lot of people will either read or pass on your story with summary alone. I neither like nor hate them, they are just a necessity. I usually try to summarize my story briefly - main characters, situation etc. I also found that if I say in the summary that my story is AU I get more hits on AO3. I did use song lyrics once - but I think that got misleading.
Life
We are at my parents' for half a week this week and yesterday afternoon we were at the playground here. We noticed a bunch of big teenage boys hanging out in one corner of one of the play areas for a while, where some stairs and slides are. Later on, when Tanya was running around in that area, climbing the stairs, I saw that they either spray painted or kind of burned the phrase "Thug Life" in big letters on two of the stairs. This made me roll my eyes so hard. Yes, privileged white teenage boys who live in a really safe area of firmly middle-class private houses on Staten Island, who most likely never knew either hunger or true hardship in their entire life, you are so "thug" that you had to paint a very clean and nice playground to show how tough you really are. Please.
We are a month into a semester and I already have that one student who feels she is above it all. And I knew what kind of student she was going to be from the very first day - I was just hoping for the best. Our students are allowed only four absences a semester by department policy (it's really six, but the students don't know that). She is already absent 3 times. This is the girl who wanted me to really pay attention to her writing sample because she couldn't understand why she was placed in a lower class of Basic Composition. After all she was a transfer student who took 100 and 101 already in a different school (really not the same as our classes) and she was a history major who knew how to write papers. This is the girl who thought Paper 2 was due this week and not next week and obviously didn't do a lot of revision despite both syllabus and assignment question being very clear on due dates and all the work she must still do.
And she so far turned in a short rough draft 1, a short final paper 1 (automatic fail), and a short rough draft 2. She emailed me yesterday with the late homework of one paragraph revision and told me that she might (might) stop by my office hours Thursday to really see why she failed her first paper. Other than shortness, it was pretty crappy too with terrible topic sentences that mentioned the author despite my comments on the rough draft that she shouldn't mention the author in the topic sentence but really express her paragraph idea. I would love for her to actually show up to my office hours. Maybe she will stop feeling so special and start actually doing the work. I also sent back her paragraph, where she only revised the first sentence, with comments on pretty much every sentence and quote telling her just how much she actually needs to revise. Her second quote had little to do with her first quote or her connection. Sigh. I really hope she learns to prioritize.