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freckles_and_doubtThis job possibly requires danger pay. A student has just phoned me in the usual panic. I checked her record and told her that as far as I can work out she's not about to be academically excluded and should be able to continue studying next year, whereupon she let out this express-train shriek of joy that went through my skull like an electric fish-skewer and may actually have perforated my eardrum. Matters were not improved by the fact that I celebrated stress, tension and overwork by becoming Naughtily Drunk while playing Munchkin last night, and am hungover. Thanks, joyous student. Glad you're happy. Now send painkillers.
I have earlier vouchsafed to the universe my views on the Twilight teen vampire series, which I persist in believing is a stale, flat and extremely profitable piece of no-content, high-sugar literary junk food whose most redeeming feature to date is its ability to make me realise that for a given value of "write" JK Rowling actually isn't as bad as all that. Therefore this article is interesting, setting out as it does to explain why Twilight's schlocky dreck, or drecky schlock, is so irresistibly mesmerising to teenaged girls. Or, in fact, older than teenaged girls: I keep running across blog posts where twenty- and thirty-something commenters discuss the fact that they hate the books and think they're dreadful but can't help reading. I hated them but have read the first three. It may, in fact, be the case that they're speaking to some weird, buried adolescent girlness I thought I'd outgrown. Damn those vampires and their symbolic power, anyway.
I have earlier vouchsafed to the universe my views on the Twilight teen vampire series, which I persist in believing is a stale, flat and extremely profitable piece of no-content, high-sugar literary junk food whose most redeeming feature to date is its ability to make me realise that for a given value of "write" JK Rowling actually isn't as bad as all that. Therefore this article is interesting, setting out as it does to explain why Twilight's schlocky dreck, or drecky schlock, is so irresistibly mesmerising to teenaged girls. Or, in fact, older than teenaged girls: I keep running across blog posts where twenty- and thirty-something commenters discuss the fact that they hate the books and think they're dreadful but can't help reading. I hated them but have read the first three. It may, in fact, be the case that they're speaking to some weird, buried adolescent girlness I thought I'd outgrown. Damn those vampires and their symbolic power, anyway.
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Re: "Being at the centre of everyone's universe'
Date: Monday, 8 December 2008 08:20 am (UTC)As for prolonging adolescence - yup, & not a Good Thing. Ok, retain a 'young' outlook on life, but take some responsibility for goodness sake.
Just think, if some of your students were a tad more responsible . . . Maybe they'd bother to read the notices you stick up & then go get their stuff before bothering you. Come to think of it, if their parents were more responsible maybe they'd have tried to make sure that their children could cope with such things. I dunno, parents these days . . . (writes she who has two adult children!)