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11 years ago @ The Toast - How To Fall Asleep: A ... · 0 replies · +35 points

What was that noise? No, not that one. That's just the train. No, that's the downstairs neighbors. Have the walls always been this thin?

Think about unpleasant confrontations that could happen at work tomorrow. Make sure you have your side of the argument completely planned out.

You set your alarm, right? Yeah. Definitely. Let's check it just to be sure, though.

She's snoring again. Not really snoring, just breathing loudly. It might develop into snoring. You're already awake, though, so it's not like she's disturbing you. Okay, that one counts as snoring. That is a definite snore. How long until you elbow her? Maybe five snores. Five consecutive real snores.

What's that noise?

11 years ago @ The Toast - So You've Decided to G... · 0 replies · +3 points

Ahh. Gotcha. I only prioritize reading at work when there are constraints on my space--like when there's state or AP testing, and I'm not really allowed to do anything that, say, makes noise, or requires movement. (Or after school, when there are fewer pesky adults around.)

11 years ago @ The Toast - So You've Decided to G... · 0 replies · +1 points

Yeah, I think I just sprained an eyeball.

At my grad school a major complaint was that there wasn't Enough distinction between programs--archive and school library track folks had to take core courses with zero relevance to our fields. (At the time archive folks had it much worse; you could take a class and not hear your professor even say the word "archives" once in a semester.)

Even if the archives-specific courses were on a totally different planet, having to take general core courses meant you were at least in classes with the same people who were ruining your group projects and reading off slides in the general track.

11 years ago @ The Toast - So You've Decided to G... · 2 replies · +3 points

Why is that so weird? As a high school librarian, reading is vital to my ability to provide quality readers advisory to the teens (and, to a lesser degree, adults) I serve. When I'm reading outside the school building it's never "just for fun"--it's professional development.

(That said, I rarely read at my desk, precisely because someone will inevitably say "Oh I wish I could just read all day!")

11 years ago @ The Toast - So You've Decided to G... · 1 reply · +4 points

My program had redheads.

11 years ago @ The Toast - So You've Decided to G... · 1 reply · +22 points

My favorite was in one of my first library school classes. I think the professor thought he was just selecting a regular ol' image (why he thought Spiderman had any bearing on MA curriculum frameworks is sort of beside the point), but what he actually got was an animated GIF of Spiderman doing the dance from Napoleon Dynamite.

On every. single. slide.

11 years ago @ The Toast - So You've Decided to G... · 0 replies · +5 points

Prezi makes me immediately seasick, which would have made drinking anything much more challenging.

11 years ago @ The Toast - So You've Decided to G... · 0 replies · +13 points

Constantly. I think we had two quarts of chocolate milk and rapidly realized we were essentially doing a Gallon Challenge. Do not recommend.

11 years ago @ The Toast - So You've Decided to G... · 19 replies · +27 points

You can, of course, adapt yours to suit the terrible catchphrases your particular instructors use (ours, for instance, included "icky" and "homosexual...ality"), but some that work in many contexts:

Drink if the presenter is reading directly off the slide.
Drink if the slide is completely full of text.
Drink if the presenter cannot possibly get through all the slides in the allotted time.
Drink if your instructor has to physically remove the presenter when s/he has gone over the allotted time.
Drink if you spot an obvious typo.
Drink if the presenter passes out a handout of the slides, one slide per page, single-sided.
Drink when (not if) a link fails to work.
Chug if your instructor does not understand how computers work and can't figure out why things keep popping up in the middle of a presentation.

11 years ago @ The Toast - So You've Decided to G... · 22 replies · +16 points

"The classes? Oh, they’re great. If you like being treated like a middle-schooler."

I was in the School Library Teacher Program, so I spent much of my time being treated like a middle-schooler because instructors were literally asking us to act like middle-schoolers. My favorite was our Instructional Strategies class, where our instructor mostly made us roleplay all the ways children can be horrible. (Bonus points: she always, always had one of two dudes in the class play the troublemaker.)

I have also developed a very thorough PowerPoint drinking game, which now works equally well in classes or at conferences. (We used chocolate milk at the time because reasons.)

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