The Grading Effect: Three Vignettes.

[sechan19]

Excerpt of a conversation between myself and a peer in the department library.
JJ: What's going on?
Me: Oh, I'm discovering all kinds of interesting things about myself.
JJ: Like what?
Me: Like the fact that when it comes to grading, I am a total bitch.
JJ: How is that different from any other aspect of your life?

Excerpt of a test I graded this evening.
"Shamanism is the religion of the Shaman People."

Excerpt of hilarity between myself and my friend, B., upon grading the above.
Me: The Shaman People needs to be a band name.
B: Yes, but it really ought to be "Someone" and the Shaman People.
In chorus: LADY DAI AND THE SHAMAN PEOPLE!!

Comments

[foxxydancr.livejournal.com]

so i got this email from a student today. he has apparently been going to the recitations for your class instead of the ones for mine. and somehow it took him FOUR WEEKS to figure out that he was not at the right class.

I...

there are no words.

[alonewolverine.livejournal.com]

okay, i like the band...but...ARE the shaman's a people?

[reteva.livejournal.com]

No, they aren't. That's part of what makes it so beautiful. I think the person in question meant "Shang people" (at least, I hope they did). The Shang were an early dynastic group in Bronze Age China, and they did practice Shamanism.

I miss you!!

[unapperent.livejournal.com]

A week ago, I would laugh, and just call the dude a moron.

But after seeing just how dim the majority of my classmates are... I really feel like the world is comfy in a handbasket.