OH NOES PENIS

[gogmagog]

SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED, THAT APARTMENT IS MINE

...or it will be. Officially, my lease starts on August 1st; in practice, I can move in pretty much the day after the previous tenants move out (which is my birthday, July 28), as long as I don't mind doing general cleaning of the apartment myself instead of letting my landlords do it.

As I actually do enjoy most cleaning, when I can psych myself into doing it, I don't have a problem with this if it means that I then have enough overlap to take a day or two moving, instead of having to pack all my stuff into a U-Haul on July 31st, park it in the lot of my new building and then ask iowayehudit if I can sleep on her sofa until I can unpack the next day. XD

...So who in the IC area's in for helping me move on July 30th or the 31st (a Wednesday and a Thursday, respectively)? And also, rathershady and courters28, if you guys wanna come up and return the favor of helping me move (assuming scheduling permits), we can hang out and I will treat you to delicious Airliner pizza (which I know Courtney has been craving)!

In other news my Rhetoric students were way more mature about watching Transamerica than my past classes. To be fair, the only other classes I've shown it to were almost entirely freshmen, but still, it was nice not to get yells of "EWWWW, GROSS" at the full frontal male nudity or the innocent romantic scene between the transsexual lead and her male love interest. And while I actually don't mind yells like that so much at the genuinely squicky almost-incest scene near the end of the movie, they didn't even do more than grimace! I'd kind of gotten used to taking a sadistic little pleasure at their horror, but it was nice not to have to!

I find it especially hilarious that it's always guys doing the yelling, and louder than anything at the male nudity. I'm always mentally thinking, "HAY THAR, AS YOU'RE A GUY I KNOW IT'S NOT LIKE YOU HAVEN'T SEEN ONE OF THOSE BEFORE, and by the way conspicuously and needlessly drawing attention to your aggressive heterosexuality like that is more likely to make people wonder why the fratboy protesteth too much than the reverse." So I'm glad I didn't have that this semester. XD

And then my class actually had a pretty good discussion of the movie! So I'm in a good mood...all I have to do is sit in my office for my office hour (which will be empty, as always), go home, and spend the evening cleaning my apartment (and maybe start boxing stuff up for the move, or am I too eager?) and playing Mana Khemia. \o/

Comments

[eslington.livejournal.com]

So if it's a rhetorical class do you not need to sit the exam?

Kidding aside, what is this "Rhetoric class" of which you speak?

The Transamerica thing kind of reminds me of my university's LGBT society film week.
At the start of the lesbian film night, we had quite a few guys in, but the first film we showed was The Killing of Sister George.
When it became apparent it wasn't going to be all perky breasted blondes having pillow fights and exploring each other's undiscovered countries, one by one the male audience drifted away into the night. ^_^;

(I stayed, and discovered I like the anti-romantic genre. And the lesbians showed Fire afterwards.)

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

"Rhetoric" is just the U of Iowa's name for a combination freshman composition and public speaking class, which is required for graduation. (However, I'm teaching the version that focuses just on public speaking, for those who have already taken freshman comp somewhere else.)

I'm in my fourth and last semester teaching it; starting next year I'm teaching Interpretation of Literature, which is much more up my alley. XD

And actually, you're right: they don't have to sit an exam, because there's no exam to sit. All they have are four major public speeches throughout the semester, and then participation in class discussion on various readings and such (plus listening to my occasional lecture on public speaking strategies and skills).

...oh, lipstick lesbian pornography and the unrealistic expectations it has given so many straight men. It's sad, in a way. D:

[sergiekins.livejournal.com]

XD Sounds like my developmental psychology class. We got to watch the happy videos of a woman giving birth, and, well... I think the four girls around me went "EEEEEE!" but I'm not sure. And the professor mentioned how she just loves all our expressions whenever she shows that video.

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

To be fair, childbirth actually does have a certain visceral quality that I think is squeamworthy (a sort of "THE HUMAN BODY IS NOT SUPPOSED TO STRETCH LIKE THAT AUGH" thing). XD

[plainjanesdubc.livejournal.com]

I'm very impressed by your packing intentions. We moved three months before our lease was up and still didn't get everything out until the very last day... Don't be like me. :P

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm starting now...this doesn't mean I'm going to finish by the end of July though. And I have a feeling that if you didn't manage to finish in time, then I won't either, as you're way more disciplined and responsible than me. XD