State of the Me, and Stuff
Jul. 29th, 2011 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76Spent Wednesday in bed sick, mostly unconscious. Spent yesterday wishing I was unconscious. After I've successfully dodged con crud for how many conventions this year, SDCC finally nailed me with it. Fortunately the last of it disappeared last night around dinner time. (I could tell because I actually felt like eating again, which I really hadn't since Tuesday night.)
Fortunately, I say, because today was the first day of Costume College and I had a 9am limited class to take, and a 1:30pm open class on Medieval Garb: The T-Tunic and Beyond to teach. And I've been busting balls on having various samples worked up to take in, and doing up handouts and learning how to use Open Office's graphics tools to draw everything out, and you know what? It was TOTALLY worth it. I walked in and had to check that I was in the right room because there were something like FORTY students in there! I've NEVER had that many students show up for one of my classes, not even the full-size fairy wings one. I'd only done up thirty handouts, expecting plenty of leftovers. I took a contact list for the students who didn't get one and will have to convert the files to PDFs. It went swimmingly, and between my usual clumsy lecture method and opening the floor for questions, went to about the right length.
(For the record, I only teach classes on subjects that I've worked with enough that how to do it is completely obvious and simple to me. My teaching style tends to reflect this, breaking things down into idiot (ie, me) sized blocks and showing students how to put them together.)
I was about ten minutes late to my 9am class, but over the course of three hours I caught up. An overview of the class can be seen here. We made two feather ornaments (one of which is that top one, the other isn't pictured) and ran out of time but still got the supplies to make a third. I learned how to clean feathers and dye them with either Kool-Aid or cake food dye. I also tried to attend a class on fitting clothing to oneself, but had to leave because the aircon wasn't working right or something and I didn't want to fall asleep in class. Instead I ended up at the teaching circle, which was at that time about how to do needlelace. Wish I'd known about that beforehand! I'd've totally brought supplies and been able to participate instead of just doing observational learning. And I looked around the goodies already donated for Sunday's Bargain Bazaar, and then came home. And pulled a decent amount of fabric off my shelves to put in the bazaar as well.
And then Wonderful Husband and I watched ThunderCats, and it was good, even if we snarked about a few tropes (we are somewhat snarky people), and then I finally started watching Transformers Prime. Episode 6, amazingly, did not have any moments that made me want to throw things at the screen. Hopefully the writing will stay improved!
Fortunately, I say, because today was the first day of Costume College and I had a 9am limited class to take, and a 1:30pm open class on Medieval Garb: The T-Tunic and Beyond to teach. And I've been busting balls on having various samples worked up to take in, and doing up handouts and learning how to use Open Office's graphics tools to draw everything out, and you know what? It was TOTALLY worth it. I walked in and had to check that I was in the right room because there were something like FORTY students in there! I've NEVER had that many students show up for one of my classes, not even the full-size fairy wings one. I'd only done up thirty handouts, expecting plenty of leftovers. I took a contact list for the students who didn't get one and will have to convert the files to PDFs. It went swimmingly, and between my usual clumsy lecture method and opening the floor for questions, went to about the right length.
(For the record, I only teach classes on subjects that I've worked with enough that how to do it is completely obvious and simple to me. My teaching style tends to reflect this, breaking things down into idiot (ie, me) sized blocks and showing students how to put them together.)
I was about ten minutes late to my 9am class, but over the course of three hours I caught up. An overview of the class can be seen here. We made two feather ornaments (one of which is that top one, the other isn't pictured) and ran out of time but still got the supplies to make a third. I learned how to clean feathers and dye them with either Kool-Aid or cake food dye. I also tried to attend a class on fitting clothing to oneself, but had to leave because the aircon wasn't working right or something and I didn't want to fall asleep in class. Instead I ended up at the teaching circle, which was at that time about how to do needlelace. Wish I'd known about that beforehand! I'd've totally brought supplies and been able to participate instead of just doing observational learning. And I looked around the goodies already donated for Sunday's Bargain Bazaar, and then came home. And pulled a decent amount of fabric off my shelves to put in the bazaar as well.
And then Wonderful Husband and I watched ThunderCats, and it was good, even if we snarked about a few tropes (we are somewhat snarky people), and then I finally started watching Transformers Prime. Episode 6, amazingly, did not have any moments that made me want to throw things at the screen. Hopefully the writing will stay improved!
