Huh. Apparently being stressed out about exams is good for my posting schedule, considering it's not been a year since I did my last post. I could still do without the exam looming before me, though. T minus 27 days, folks! >.<"

A few days ago one of my students unleashed some kind of pandemonium on us, when he took offense to ...something (which was just the tip of the ice-berg, he'd been antsy and moody for more than a week) and completely exploded, attacking other students, throwing chairs, shoes, pencils, scissors, demolishing doors, bathrooms... you name it, he probably did it that day. There was a point during it all when I had to abandon trying to teach the other students and had to block the door, because he was outside and trying to throw building blocks at the other students.

And the other students? Well, obviously they were a little bit bored, with all of our energy focused on that student, so they started to literally bounce around the classroom.
And say the word "bounce" as they bounced.
And then they started bouncing in a circle.

So there I was, standing at the door, with the sound of building-blocks-mortar and enraged howls of a furious student at my back, watching my other students going "Bounce! - Bounce! - Bounce!" while bouncing around in a circle.

...Welcome to my life.



Speaking of ...well, not exactly my life? But more stuff I've been thinking about (to distract myself from my exam): I recently read this meta-discussion post on homophobia in slash fandom, which I found very interesting, especially the stuff in the comments. The post argues that at least some of us slash fans (it's geared towards hockey fandom, but I think it's easily appliable to every other fandom as well) tend to think of ourselves as gay allies, because we read slash fanfiction, which can somewhat blind us to our own privilege and occasionally homophobic assumptions.

( Thinky thoughts ahead - beware of the alligators!Collapse )