Special post for Miss Gabster, Get Well Soon!

This is just a post so that students can leave a Get Well Soon message for Miss Gabster who is out sick this week.

Photo taken today.

Materials for this week (November 30, December 1) 2010

Since Tuesday's class is the last day of one month and Wednesday's class is the first day of the next month and since winter seems to have finally arrived, I think it's only appropriate that this week we'll have a human sacrifice to appease the snow gods and so that those of us who survive will be facing a relatively mild winter.

Other news about this week after these brief messages from our sponsors.

The influence of Andrzej Lepper is felt in Hollywood.


Do you ever wonder why Americans don't spend a lot of time with their families? This is one reason why.

What his parents did to this poor kid is another.

Okay, except for being ready in case you're the one chosen in the Big Event there's no need to bring or download or print anything else for class this week.

Instead of the more traditional giant owl alter (see above) I'm now thinking that setting up a Wicker Man in the park across the road might be a fun project for the whole institute.

Materials for Nov. 23/24

There's a lot to prepare for classes this week. Here's what you'll need to bring:

-TWO pens of DIFFERENT colors (one blue and one black is fine, or one black and one purple, or any other combination as long as they're different)

-several (3-5) sheets of blank paper, preferably A4 sized. Blank or lined doesn't matter. These can be ripped from a notebook as long as it's a roughly A4 sized notebook.


That's it! Nothing to print, just bring your pens, your paper, and your brains to class this week. Even if you forget your brain, be sure to remember the 2 pens and 3-5 sheets of paper.

P.S. Wednesday class, remember that we're in 220.

Materials for this week (2010-11-16,17)

Hello there and welcome back to another fantastic wee .... oh hell with acting cheerful, here's the links already.

Material for this week:

Presentation evaluation guidelines,

Sample presentation outline two.

This week's theme: ANIMAL HIJINX!!!

If you really want to see a dead mouse in a loaf of bread then click here.

For strong nerves only: Unspeakable animal cruelty, here.

A cute animal looks at its food, here.

Lidl gets us into the Christmas spirit, here.

Thanksgiving 2010: The turkeys' revenge, here.

Special note for Wednesday people: It looks like we're finally out of the hellholle that is 313ab. From now on (with any luck) we'll be in 320b.

Materials for week two (November 9,10 2010)

Well, I think the survivors of last weeks class on Wednesday enjoyed themselves (how many times do I have to "No flashes!" anyway).

But, moving on. Those of you who are still here will need the following.

1. Your textbook

2. Sample outlines for your review, you can find it here.

3. Guidelines for your general interest spoken presentaton, you can find it here.

As a matter of general interest, note the following very cool site for Dictionaraoke. People with entirely too much free time use 'talking' dictionaries and karaoke musical tracks to create a new and different listening experience. I especially reccomend the dictionaraoke version of the old Lionel Ritchie (when he was with the Commodores) "Easy".

Also for those of you who have been asking for pictures of dogs eating peanut butter, here it is. I just hope you sick people are happy now.

Materials for this week (just 2010.11.03)

Okay, thanks to the rector there's no class on Tuesday, just Wednesday.

For those in the Wednesday group, we will be meeting this week as usual.

You should bring the following items with you:

1. Several ice cubes

2. Black string, lots of black string, loose, not on a spool.

3. Four edible bird eggs (not chicken eggs, that would be wrong)

4. A Mexican Mariachi hat, see here, here and here for suitable examples. Any color except red.

The class should be a lot of fun as long as no one makes any sudden movements or tries to take flash pictures.