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Oct. 6th, 2006 01:47 amHave to type up dream before I forget because it was really cool.
I mostly only remember the very ending. I was just joining a class (after a Futurama peice I'll mention in a bit) and it was a couple days/weeks in. But he'd assigned part of Maisson Ikkoku, and two other stories I didn't know (and now I can't remember the name :( ) one being about a little girl and arguing with her Mom. So as I first join I take a seat next to a friend and he just orders everyone to do such and such assignment and so they all pull out their workbooks and start doing it. I, of course, don't HAVE the workbooks but the class started like 20 minutes late because he'd been talking to some other students/reading a joke book (I was very wtf) so until then I'd been catching up on the reading and talking softly with friends (two of whom gave me chapstick but way too much so I actually had to go to the sink to spit some of it out and in the end decided I definitely preferred my own.) At the workbook point though I went up to mention I was new and needed said workbook and that I'd already read the beginning of Maisson Ikkoku and caught from others the other two stories and read some of that too. He laughed at my calling it "mahn-guh." (isn't that the right pronounciation??) and then started pulling out the year overview and whatever else I might need.
I can't remember what exactly was on the first page but something very anti-feminism that got me more than annoyed and the whole set of three was these really assinine questions pertaining to each reading. And then after a few more sheets and packets he's at a microwave and starts cooking ramen. Then he passes out exactly one cup (measurement) of it out to everyone and with the directions that it had to be exactly one cup with beef ramen and the few vegetables he'd placed in all cooked only for 2 minutes and so that the noodles were still crunchy but we could add as much salt and pepper as we wanted. I HATE when the noodles are crunchy. I flat out won't eat it. But it was very clear this guy was CRAZY. He was like literally fudged in the head. And who wants an F just for objecting to having to eat crunchy noodles? An then he's demanding we all go outside under this specific tree in pairs and discuss the meaning of the 3 sets we just read and how it applies to us and why we're out there. So a good six people head out and I'm still adding salt and pepper and mixing around and thickening my noodles and the next thing I know he's looming over me humming. Not exactly in a scary way or even all THAT off the deep end but pretty nutso. But he was happily... humming at me. And called me Crystal :| Whatever so after just staring at him humming for a couple minutes I make my excuses and go outside even though I originally hadn't wanted to, I just wanted to stay INSIDE and read and eat and do work there.
So I pair up with my friend in semi-rectangle and someone asks, "So why are we out here?"
And it was pretty clear from the message of the books it was because, "We let it happen," as someone else pointed out.
And someone else argued, "Because we choose to let it happen."
And I pointed out, "More like we choose to put up with idiocies so that we don't get Fs."
And by this time most of the class had joined us and so had the teacher (without us seeing) and he bursts out laughing (in a I've lost my marbles and they're never coming back sense) and tells us we are all out there because like in the stories we chose to let it happen but then he went on to say that tyrants like him will start to get lax and lazy (as he had supposedly been getting before I arrived) and if he starts getting happy and humming we have him to thank and "Kiki" (me) and at calling me Kiki the friend next to me snorted very loudly and he's all, "Oh sorry, that's not your name?" So I told him CC quite firmly.
Only I woke up and I don't know why. It wasn't long enough (5 hours is never enough) and I don't know if it was the start of realizing it was important (it seems hella less so now) or the whole me being CC thing and deciding that fine if he wanted us to fight back he was in for a treat because I tend to be obnoxious to begin with.
And in academics I do take things lying down because it doesn't seem worth the fight. If teachers want their essays exactly as they say, doing them otherwise will only results in Fs no matter how much your way is "the right way" and like I said, is ramen worth getting an F over? Only the teacher seemed to think so and wanted us to object to insane assinine things we didn't like. But if we did that wouldn't we just be doing what he wants still? But I do not believe in better safe than sorry. And if people had stood up to Hitler wouldn't they have been killed? But maybe if enough stood up he wouldn't have gained the power he did.
... meh I know the lesson was important for my own life and I know it seemed genious when I woke up but now I can't remember it so well and I'm not sure what it really is.... And that was the most important part. Maybe I'll just go back to bed.
I mostly only remember the very ending. I was just joining a class (after a Futurama peice I'll mention in a bit) and it was a couple days/weeks in. But he'd assigned part of Maisson Ikkoku, and two other stories I didn't know (and now I can't remember the name :( ) one being about a little girl and arguing with her Mom. So as I first join I take a seat next to a friend and he just orders everyone to do such and such assignment and so they all pull out their workbooks and start doing it. I, of course, don't HAVE the workbooks but the class started like 20 minutes late because he'd been talking to some other students/reading a joke book (I was very wtf) so until then I'd been catching up on the reading and talking softly with friends (two of whom gave me chapstick but way too much so I actually had to go to the sink to spit some of it out and in the end decided I definitely preferred my own.) At the workbook point though I went up to mention I was new and needed said workbook and that I'd already read the beginning of Maisson Ikkoku and caught from others the other two stories and read some of that too. He laughed at my calling it "mahn-guh." (isn't that the right pronounciation??) and then started pulling out the year overview and whatever else I might need.
I can't remember what exactly was on the first page but something very anti-feminism that got me more than annoyed and the whole set of three was these really assinine questions pertaining to each reading. And then after a few more sheets and packets he's at a microwave and starts cooking ramen. Then he passes out exactly one cup (measurement) of it out to everyone and with the directions that it had to be exactly one cup with beef ramen and the few vegetables he'd placed in all cooked only for 2 minutes and so that the noodles were still crunchy but we could add as much salt and pepper as we wanted. I HATE when the noodles are crunchy. I flat out won't eat it. But it was very clear this guy was CRAZY. He was like literally fudged in the head. And who wants an F just for objecting to having to eat crunchy noodles? An then he's demanding we all go outside under this specific tree in pairs and discuss the meaning of the 3 sets we just read and how it applies to us and why we're out there. So a good six people head out and I'm still adding salt and pepper and mixing around and thickening my noodles and the next thing I know he's looming over me humming. Not exactly in a scary way or even all THAT off the deep end but pretty nutso. But he was happily... humming at me. And called me Crystal :| Whatever so after just staring at him humming for a couple minutes I make my excuses and go outside even though I originally hadn't wanted to, I just wanted to stay INSIDE and read and eat and do work there.
So I pair up with my friend in semi-rectangle and someone asks, "So why are we out here?"
And it was pretty clear from the message of the books it was because, "We let it happen," as someone else pointed out.
And someone else argued, "Because we choose to let it happen."
And I pointed out, "More like we choose to put up with idiocies so that we don't get Fs."
And by this time most of the class had joined us and so had the teacher (without us seeing) and he bursts out laughing (in a I've lost my marbles and they're never coming back sense) and tells us we are all out there because like in the stories we chose to let it happen but then he went on to say that tyrants like him will start to get lax and lazy (as he had supposedly been getting before I arrived) and if he starts getting happy and humming we have him to thank and "Kiki" (me) and at calling me Kiki the friend next to me snorted very loudly and he's all, "Oh sorry, that's not your name?" So I told him CC quite firmly.
Only I woke up and I don't know why. It wasn't long enough (5 hours is never enough) and I don't know if it was the start of realizing it was important (it seems hella less so now) or the whole me being CC thing and deciding that fine if he wanted us to fight back he was in for a treat because I tend to be obnoxious to begin with.
And in academics I do take things lying down because it doesn't seem worth the fight. If teachers want their essays exactly as they say, doing them otherwise will only results in Fs no matter how much your way is "the right way" and like I said, is ramen worth getting an F over? Only the teacher seemed to think so and wanted us to object to insane assinine things we didn't like. But if we did that wouldn't we just be doing what he wants still? But I do not believe in better safe than sorry. And if people had stood up to Hitler wouldn't they have been killed? But maybe if enough stood up he wouldn't have gained the power he did.
... meh I know the lesson was important for my own life and I know it seemed genious when I woke up but now I can't remember it so well and I'm not sure what it really is.... And that was the most important part. Maybe I'll just go back to bed.
