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Right, so. Yesterday was the first regular school day after the shitstorm that was Ondoy.
The atmosphere was rather... well. It wasn't great, but it wasn't entirely terrible. Still, it's rather haunting, going around and hearing people talk about nothing else but what happened, or occasionally spotting someone crying on someone else's shoulder. My students, for the most part, are okay - we talked long and much about exactly how the tragedy could have reached critical mass the way it did, along with a more regular concern: grades.
I've just spent most of my day checking all of their remaining requirements and computing for their class standing - it doesn't look like I'll be failing anyone this semester, and overall, everyone did stellar in my classes. Tomorrow will involve some negotiations on the parts of a few of my students, and I'll probably let them have their desired grade bumps if they can argue with me well enough.
On the grad studies end of things, I've still got a paper to write. Felt shitty over the past few weeks, so I really haven't been able to do it. Thankfully, I returned to my calm and happy place by rolling around and fixing all (yes, all) of my backlogged files and changing my icon sets, so I think I'm recharged enough to give it a shot. Tonight, perhaps.
Now let's talk internet things.
First off: HI AND HELLO TO THE NEW FOLKS THAT![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jusrecht INTRODUCED ME TO! ♥
Aaaand pimp outs.
NEW POST UP ON ORZISMS: Contextualizing Manga the Right Way (And Then Some)
Fic pimps fromstitchedophelia:
The World Ends With You: Life is Inevitable and Death Goes On (requested bymienaihoshi ♥)
Suikoden Tierkreis: Stone Shadows
The World Ends With You: Every day is the end of the world (requested byyukitsu ♥)
The Skytides RPG [![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
theskytides]: Now this day too enters history (requested by yukitsu ♥)
Katekyo Hitman Reborn: Death is another country (requested bybotling ♥)
KHR: Fiore di Nuvola. All the words... (requested bybotling; you might want to read my minibang beLIEve if you want to tackle this one ♥)
Katekyo Hitman Reborn: Come up through the summer rain (requested bybotling ♥)
Devil Summoner: Solemn talk of distant rain (requested bybotling ♥)
Katekyo Hitman Reborn: O little sparrows, mind your place! (requested byjusrecht ♥)
The World Ends With You: They only let him go wrong out of kindness, I suppose
Snippets and drabbles for my original projects, all requested byyukitsu:
Bloodsport: I wrote on a wall, "I've gone ahead"
Bloodsport: You have outgrown your first kimono
Bloodsport: An old friend you just met
Endtimes: There are no strangers under cherry blossoms
I've actually finished a host of other prompts from the ones people requested from me sometime back, but I won't be posting them up just yet.
...Right, back to work.
The atmosphere was rather... well. It wasn't great, but it wasn't entirely terrible. Still, it's rather haunting, going around and hearing people talk about nothing else but what happened, or occasionally spotting someone crying on someone else's shoulder. My students, for the most part, are okay - we talked long and much about exactly how the tragedy could have reached critical mass the way it did, along with a more regular concern: grades.
I've just spent most of my day checking all of their remaining requirements and computing for their class standing - it doesn't look like I'll be failing anyone this semester, and overall, everyone did stellar in my classes. Tomorrow will involve some negotiations on the parts of a few of my students, and I'll probably let them have their desired grade bumps if they can argue with me well enough.
On the grad studies end of things, I've still got a paper to write. Felt shitty over the past few weeks, so I really haven't been able to do it. Thankfully, I returned to my calm and happy place by rolling around and fixing all (yes, all) of my backlogged files and changing my icon sets, so I think I'm recharged enough to give it a shot. Tonight, perhaps.
Now let's talk internet things.
First off: HI AND HELLO TO THE NEW FOLKS THAT
jusrecht INTRODUCED ME TO! ♥Aaaand pimp outs.
NEW POST UP ON ORZISMS: Contextualizing Manga the Right Way (And Then Some)
Fic pimps from
stitchedophelia:The World Ends With You: Life is Inevitable and Death Goes On (requested by
mienaihoshi ♥)Suikoden Tierkreis: Stone Shadows
The World Ends With You: Every day is the end of the world (requested by
yukitsu ♥)The Skytides RPG [
theskytides]: Now this day too enters history (requested by yukitsu ♥)Katekyo Hitman Reborn: Death is another country (requested by
botling ♥)KHR: Fiore di Nuvola. All the words... (requested by
botling; you might want to read my minibang beLIEve if you want to tackle this one ♥)Katekyo Hitman Reborn: Come up through the summer rain (requested by
botling ♥)Devil Summoner: Solemn talk of distant rain (requested by
botling ♥)Katekyo Hitman Reborn: O little sparrows, mind your place! (requested by
jusrecht ♥)The World Ends With You: They only let him go wrong out of kindness, I suppose
Snippets and drabbles for my original projects, all requested by
yukitsu:Bloodsport: I wrote on a wall, "I've gone ahead"
Bloodsport: You have outgrown your first kimono
Bloodsport: An old friend you just met
Endtimes: There are no strangers under cherry blossoms
I've actually finished a host of other prompts from the ones people requested from me sometime back, but I won't be posting them up just yet.
...Right, back to work.
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/just because :3
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/gdit Tet EVERY SINGLE TIME 8|
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it is a tragedy. though i find myself not wanting to talk about it anymore. i read in your plurk that there might not be any sembreak?
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it is a tragedy. though i find myself not wanting to talk about it anymore.
That is understandable, I think... things like this eventually reach a saturation point, especially when it's still very fresh.
As to sem break, it's just a rumor for now. Let's hope it STAYS one. orz
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yeah, it gets tiring. lol. nikki and i had this personal joke that i'm reaching a BnF status because of this whole flood thing. but i guess we just find ourselves joking about what happened as a way of moving on. :D
I HOPE SO! *crosses fingers for you*
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Srsly considering doing my minibang full circle and writing up some stuff just for closure~
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Aaaand of course I only read the KHR ones.
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Ahahaha, oh you~~~ ♥
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NOW TO FINISH THIS GODDAMNED SEM FOR SRS.
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And, um, hello! :"D♥
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♥♥♥~ /snuggles
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