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brideoffrankensteinI gave my first English Lit seminar on Friday.
I was really, horribly worked up about it, and I'm still coping with the after effects of the anxiety. Saying that, though, it went pretty well. They're a good bunch and they paid attention to my questions and had some good thoughts, especially for a first week. After I finished it, I felt pretty happy and comfortable about this week's one; I have to basically chat about things like "what is an author" and explain Barthes to them and look at Ozymandias, which I have an inordinate fondness for despite calling Shelley Percy Bitch Shelley because he's an ass and he deserves it (though he did write on the Peterloo Massacre which gives him a couple good points.)
I won't call him Percy Bitch Shelley in front of the eighteen year olds though.
I don't know how much I'm getting paid for this, and what things I get paid for and what I don't. Haven't had my contract yet. I've got the sinking feeling it'll be like fifteen quid a week, which would be okay if it was just An Hour's Work but with the prep time (at least three hours on top) it feels a bit ehn. Still, I don't know, maybe I'll be surprised. And even if it is fifteen quid a week that's fifteen quid a week more than I did have.
My work level at my other job got upped, a couple months back, so I have that to contend with, although that job pays really well. I'm gonna need to pay taxes.
I'm still ticking on my Phd. My supervisor says I have some wiggle room and can relax my pace a bit, which I might have to. I also have a conference on Halloween I'm presenting at (The Gothic Nature Conference). So that's fun.
I was really, horribly worked up about it, and I'm still coping with the after effects of the anxiety. Saying that, though, it went pretty well. They're a good bunch and they paid attention to my questions and had some good thoughts, especially for a first week. After I finished it, I felt pretty happy and comfortable about this week's one; I have to basically chat about things like "what is an author" and explain Barthes to them and look at Ozymandias, which I have an inordinate fondness for despite calling Shelley Percy Bitch Shelley because he's an ass and he deserves it (though he did write on the Peterloo Massacre which gives him a couple good points.)
I won't call him Percy Bitch Shelley in front of the eighteen year olds though.
I don't know how much I'm getting paid for this, and what things I get paid for and what I don't. Haven't had my contract yet. I've got the sinking feeling it'll be like fifteen quid a week, which would be okay if it was just An Hour's Work but with the prep time (at least three hours on top) it feels a bit ehn. Still, I don't know, maybe I'll be surprised. And even if it is fifteen quid a week that's fifteen quid a week more than I did have.
My work level at my other job got upped, a couple months back, so I have that to contend with, although that job pays really well. I'm gonna need to pay taxes.
I'm still ticking on my Phd. My supervisor says I have some wiggle room and can relax my pace a bit, which I might have to. I also have a conference on Halloween I'm presenting at (The Gothic Nature Conference). So that's fun.
