Monday, June 10, 2013

Votimation (lack of Motivation)

It's 8:42 on a Monday morning, and the class I am teaching this summer starts at 9:30. I haven't been so tempted to just randomly cancel class in a long time.

But that is just me being a weak, can't-hack-it, panty-waste.

The lesson today is on enthymemes (here's the wiki page for those who were about to go to google http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthymeme ). It's a complicated subject and rough to teach and rough for the students to understand. It's not my favorite lesson to teach at all.

But it must be taught. It's one of those annoying things in school that ends up being useful later on in your academic career.

But I want to be lazy today.

If it wasn't such a shortened school semester, and if I wasn't already planning on missing a Monday later on in the semester, I would totally cancel class today.

*channels Bambi's dad* You must get up. You must get up.

Yeah, even when there's no fire.

2 comments:

Tammy said...

Good for you to not cancel class! What a grown up you are! hehe. So I read the wiki page on enthimmmemem...whatever and I still don't know what it means and I don't have the motivation to learn it. Glad I'm not in your class. Hope it went well.

Traci said...

Enthymeme - it's just a way to make an argument.
And also a good way to cause headaches in a bunch of students. :)