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Quote from: Xantalos on July 19, 2013, 12:18:37 am

Quote from: JoshuaFH on July 19, 2013, 12:14:45 am

I just got done watching Pacific Rim 3d in a theater. It was alotta fun, but I went to it by myself, quietly walked in and paid, shuffled to an empty aisle, and then just enjoyed 2~ solid hours of goddamn awesome mecha<3godzilla fucking.

Still walked out feeling so alone and miserable with my life that I feel sick to my stomach, but Pacific Rim was a definite superficial pat on the back, so to speak.

I know this is missing the point, but knowing that <3 means penis, this:

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awesome mecha<3godzilla fucking

Ohgodwhy

Yeah, the 'Rim' part of the title doesn't refer to the ocean.

Yeah, Satan was at one point the most beautiful angeland described as such. Nothing says he was disfigured or anything after he rebelled. Also all angels are not even all humanoid or human looking. They are bizarre things with wheels and lights and multiple faces on a single head, ect, ect.

Lucifer means 'bearer of light'. So, Satan if he looks like anything, is probably a blinding sphere of psychedelic rainbow colors, like really pretty looking, if one could look at it. Like, maybe exactly how the instant of a nuclear bomb going off looks like. Psychedelic colors of everything on the electromagnetic scale blooming at once and radiating outwards along each bandwidth's individual distortion. Beautiful.

No testicles implied. Please, use religious references responsibly guys.

I'm really tired, but the peer examination of my teaching went well today!

I got compliments for being super-calm and confident, having great classroom presence, speaking clearly and articulately, and creating an extremely positive atmosphere in the classroom!  They said that they enjoyed being there because every time I reinforced a student, *they* felt really good.  Those theater, psychology, and rhetoric courses I strained over have paid off.

On the other hand one of the problems with today's lesson was that the previous lesson (a recurring weekly segment on origami) was a bit too much of a success, and the kids wanted to keep folding long after I'd told them many times [when once is usually enough] to put their stuff under their desks.  One of the girls suggested a model she wanted to fold for next week, too :3

My kids, by and large, seem really happy.  A lot of students who came in "low-skilled" are thriving, exhibiting great interest in learning even outside of class (checking out books from the library on math, looking up stuff on Google at home, etc.), and grinning like crazy whenever they get a question right.  I make them do stuff that is legitimately *really really hard* and then build on it, and they start lessons saying "OH NO, NOT AGAIN" and then I *can't get them to stop* when we need to switch to another activity.

Seriously, the very lowest-skilled students, even the one who started off cringing and unhappy because this was their third time repeating geometry and the third time with this particular teacher doing this preparatory summer program, are becoming cheerful and confident, able to help other students at points--confiding, even, to my co-teacher, that this is the first time in their many years with the program they've enjoyed writing in their journals and can't wait for that part of the day to arrive.

And some of them have started asking me things like what's done in a doctorate of mathematics.  Or what my (effective) minor in rhetoric is all about.

Behold.

You're out for the count this turn, by the way.

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