While I'm here, let me add my word of the week, which was:
amorphous
I picked myself up using the same word multiple times in classes and in comments on student papers - from describing the work of the "Misty" poets to commenting on the state of the papers themselves.
When you spend your weeks continually grasping for words in front of an audience, you notice yourself forming new speech habits all the time. Some of them you can't get rid of too quickly - like my repeated use of "if you will" to end my off-the-top-of-my-head descriptions of poetic or historical tendencies in lectures this term - a habit that has irritated me but been difficult to shake off. Do the students notice? I doubt most are listening anyway.
Yes, some of my lectures this term have been quite amorphous. But just one more week to go.
amorphous
I picked myself up using the same word multiple times in classes and in comments on student papers - from describing the work of the "Misty" poets to commenting on the state of the papers themselves.
When you spend your weeks continually grasping for words in front of an audience, you notice yourself forming new speech habits all the time. Some of them you can't get rid of too quickly - like my repeated use of "if you will" to end my off-the-top-of-my-head descriptions of poetic or historical tendencies in lectures this term - a habit that has irritated me but been difficult to shake off. Do the students notice? I doubt most are listening anyway.
Yes, some of my lectures this term have been quite amorphous. But just one more week to go.
