Friday, June 26, 2009

written the following day

I am resentful that I have to do homework on my summer vacation. I’m resentful that I have to take classes so that I can get financial aid so that I can stay in the dorm because I can’t get a job in Wilmore that pays enough to pay any kind of rent that allows me to live anywhere at all but the streets (and without reliable transportation I can’t work anywhere else). Today, I had homework. On Sunday, I have an essay exam due—three questions, each at least one page. And today I needed to do it, so instead I distracted myself with many meaningless things in order to avoid it, because to sit down an attempt to do it is like admitting defeat and forces me to acknowledge that I do in fact have homework on my summer vacation and that I’m very resentful of that fact. I am not the only one. Morgan and I threw little mini fits because of it. Homework on summer vacation should be outlawed and credits toward graduation should simply be given away. I would even pay to get credit for simply being on summer vacation.

SV501 Syllabus
Class Objectives:
1. Get up whenever you finally wake up.
2. Turn on your computer (or wake it up); check your email, check your Facebook, check your MySpace if you have one, and even Twitter. And then check any other sites you may access on a regular basis.
3. Eat breakfast, unless you don’t want to (but it’s recommended).
4. Get dressed. At some point.
5. Brush your teeth. Maybe. (Definitely, if you’re going out.)
6. Watch TV. You may do this at any point.
7. Do something you really enjoy—exercise, read, write, take pictures, research, do math problems, sit on your ass and stare into space, watch TV, or find a pool or some body of water to float around in for an unspecified amount of time.
8. Eat lunch at three o’clock…unless that’s breakfast.
9. Go somewhere, if you feel like it.
10. Sit and think.
11. Do something spontaneously.
12. Go to bed at some point. Repeat.

Required Texts
Calvin and Hobbes. All of them.
The Compact Complete OED. Because it’s just fun to use that magnifying glass.

Assignments
What are assignments?

Grading scale
If you can’t get an A, you don’t deserve to have a summer vacation.