The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread

[Funerary_Doom]

What is your brain doing in the interim between boredom and alcohol?

Figuring out fun things to do to get into trouble or actually being productive. Sometimes I veg out though.

@Phylactery i totally agree. I want to teach, not to referee. also those rough schools you kinda have to be a bully yourself and that's exhausting if that's not who you are. My voice would literally be hoarse from yelling at my old school.

Classroom management is a challenge I think. atudents though adapt to you I think. I can't have disorder because easily distracted already. Also I get mad easily... But I had some issues with management (I co-teached so it was different wasn't my show entirely) at my old school because those were grown folk lol. Like those kids were just something else. Here I just look at them and they sit up straight. Lol

Here's my classroom. It's not perfect but it was fun to do (except having to throw away hundreds of books from like the 90s...) It's actually bothering me that one chair is pulled out and the desks aren't perfectly aligned. Also that tilted calendar next to ela standards. It's crazy but I actually like decorating shit

 

[arg]

My brain is so damn active that if I'm bored I'll drink. But I'm also 105 lbs so one beer is just good enough for me to be intoxicated. I haven't drank alcohol in awhile actually because I've been sleeping four hours a day again because it's that time of year (school year). I need something to do to not fuck my life up because when I'm bored I'll get into trouble.


Also side note: I love my new school. The kids are actual ANGELS! They act like actual kids (verrrry babyish 7th graders). Complete change and I can actually do fun stuff with them. I love my job but I also forget to eat and sleep because I'm actually a crazy OCD perfectionist and the kids (special Ed only do it's only 12 students in one class and I have two different groups) all want to learn. What a difference. My students actually brought me paper towels, Kleenex, wipes and stuff for the classroom!

Edit: lied went drinking before school started and slept over a friends house. Apparently we sang dokken songs on some roof in Brooklyn. I don't remember I just remember her bed had this awesome temperdic thing on it and I immediately fell asleep. I need that on my bed

is that school public or private? are the kids able to get real jobs when they graduate?

 

[Funerary_Doom]

Lol of course!

There's good kids at every school tbh. But this new one is one of the best and it's a public school for the arts so kids have to audition for it

 

[arg]

public school for the arts

-_-

 

[Funerary_Doom]

@arg I don't get it. What's wrong with that?

They're not going to be the next Picasso or anything but it's more for the social aspect I think. A lot of them actually end up going to specialized high schools

 

[arg]

that stuff triggers me but im gonna hold back to not be banned lol

 

[Funerary_Doom]

@arg well, now I'm curious so you have to explain

just explain I'm not going to get mad, this time

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

I think the gist of it is that everything that isn't STEM is useless and will doom you to a life of working at McDonald's.

 

[Dak]

@arg well, now I'm curious so you have to explain

tl;dr arg thinks the money spent on those kids could be better spent on strippers.

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

I'd like to know more about this school. I work with people who have physical and mental disabilities and I find it very rewarding.

 

[Phylactery]

D...do black metal vocals do anything?

Haha, I've not tried high pitched screams. I don't mean to growl, it's just when I shout that's how it comes out and I don't know how to stop it!

 

[arg]

such retards

many taxes

much waste

arts useless

no STEM

lifetime welfare

wow

 

[Dak]

arg thinks of people in terms of consumption/production units. Homoeconomicus with a whore habit. Give em one vice you know.

 

[Vilden]

I went to public art school, and I make more money than you @arg .

 

[tagradh]

I'ma awesome photographer

 

[Funerary_Doom]

I'd like to know more about this school. I work with people who have physical and mental disabilities and I find it very rewarding.

Same. And for sure it is. I can message you about it sometime. Really cool approach to helping title 1 kids (low income kids) and kids with disabilities. No nonsense in the hallways either, really well runned.

Re: art being useless discussion
It's really not. Hobbies are totally important. And what better hobby to have than something like playing an instrument or painting. I mean we ARE on a forum about metal.... So.... Yeah, don't get it but yolo.

edit: most schools don't have a cool stem project. I think if a school was focused on stem it wouldn't be that successful depending on the area. Kids want to feel like the people on tv. Sports and arts work at least for the younger ones. Need something that they care about to help motivate them. If you tell them "I'm taking away your stem project if you don't do well in your academics!" they'd start acting up to get it taken away

 

[The Ozzman]

There are two types of students in this world: Art students and real students

 

[Dak]

I'll have to disagree to some degree. My wife is getting a fine arts degree and she has to do a ton of work (more so than what I see a lot of general humanities majors put in). It's just not "intellectual", although they try to throw a veneer of intellectualism over it with a bunch of Lacanian etc bullshit mixed in where possible.

 

[The Ozzman]

I'll have to disagree to some degree. My wife is getting a fine arts degree and she has to do a ton of work (more so than what I see a lot of general humanities majors put in). It's just not "intellectual", although they try to throw a veneer of intellectualism over it with a bunch of Lacanian etc bullshit mixed in where possible.

I was being half facetious

 

[tagradh]

Someone totally dismissing any and all non-STEM study is a pretty good indicator that they're nowhere near as smart as they think they are. They're probably a stupid cunt that could do with having a few teeth knocked out.