Laser Light-Show

(You gotta say this with a weird voice in your head.)

Hoooooooollleeeeeee sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

Lords and ladies, plans often go awry.

But don't you dare make no plans. No. I've tried that, and it leads to a flumpedy blump. To the contrary, when ya make plans that get changed, you can change with ... momentum! Thus, you keep moving and accomplishing — even if it wasn't your original trajectory.

I absolutely hate my blog-post labels! They help absolutely no one.

I like my literature blog-post labels because they're plain and simple.

My rambling blog guys are just discombobulated. I even spent the better portion of a day relabeling every post.

It wasn't worth it.

Maybe.

I don't know.

Anywho!

Plans: they change. A lot. At least for me. I guess it all depends on how many plans you make on average. I would estimate — at least in terms of proportion — that most plans change.

So like, if you make 0 plans, then, yes, 0 of your plans will change.

BUT, if you make like 10 plans, 8 of them will change at least enough to call them changed.

HECK

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berries.

I dream of a superhero called Metaman. He knows all the metadata of everything. Like that's it — but that is it! For example, he can't tell you an individuals name, but if you said, "hey, this is Susan," he could tell you how many people were called Susan — or any peripheral information about the name.

But he wouldn't help me now anyway.

I want Brainscanman. I really want to know what happens inside my brain — especially longitudinally. Crazy stuff I bet. Laser light-show and whatnot.

Is rum and coffee a thing?

Yeeeow!

And now, I've gotta figure out how to append my Life Skills class. We are nearing the end of our section on theater. I did such a cursory sweep through it that it left a bland taste in my psyche, but, alas, such is the way of overly-broad courses.

Anywho, students have some presentations that will not take up the full 1.5 hours, and I need a good filler exercise.

Honestly, I want them to slapdash some small scenes together — but I have no handout-able scripts nor plays nor any such thing. I have my complete collection of Shakespeare, but one hefty book won't serve a small classroom of students.

How? How do I get them to be ridiculous at one another whilst reading some theater stuff?

What do you suggest? Your answers won't come in time for tomorrow, but I am teaching the course again next year, and I can always use ideas!

I think I undervalue ideas. Like the vague concept "ideas." The main struggle I think that keeps me undervaluing them is that I haven't gotten one to stick properly yet.

Although, I guess having a burgeoning tutoring business counts as a sticking idea.

Never mind.

I still want all the ideas to stick.

I imagine only about six of my students will show up. Their presentations are each about 3 minutes. That means that 20 minutes or so are accounted for. What do I do with 70 minutes?!

I've struggled to find the balance between fun and fervor. I don't want my class to be "serious," but I do want it to be earnest. If that makes any sense.

There's a wonderfully broad range of enthusiasm. One student is incessantly focused, helpful, engaging, and downright polite. One seems to have clocked out months ago.

And then everything in between.

I mean, that's teaching. I know. I'm just sharing.

That still leaves me with about 70 minutes of undecided time.

What would I like? Dang. That's a toughie.

I started chewing my fingernails again by the way.

Stress or something like that.

My vision is that I want them to take random books and turn them into interesting scenes. It sounds a bit floppy, but the essence of theater is taking something mundane and giving it a fresh soul.

I think that's what I'll do: sudden scenes from most any book.