I sent an email to my editor today asking if there was any news about my book. He wrote back to tell me that there was yet another delay, but that I should know something within three weeks. Okay, fine. Then he says:
So, are your revisions done?
I almost lost my lunch. I haven't been doing any revisions because I was waiting to see what the board says! But, as I learned from a subsequent email, it turns out the board just says yes or no, and you can pretty much do whatever you want with the final version.
So I could have been doing revisions for the last two months, an hour or two at a time, but now I have to try to do them all within the next three weeks.
I'm now in panic mode, trying to get together a plan for how to proceed. I do not work well under pressure--I like to have a plan and a reasonable amount of time to accomplish any given task. I now foresee late nights, long Saturdays in the office, other projects getting pushed back, and at least 10 pounds of weight gain.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Saturday, October 3, 2009
The Know-It-All Student
I have a know-it-all student this semester. (Well, I usually have at least one, but this one is especially obnoxious.) I don't know what to do with him. He is clearly very intelligent, but also very socially awkward. Here is the list of his offenses:
1. He raises his hand several times every class period, sometimes to ask obscure question, sometimes to add information that he thinks is important. (It usually isn't.)
2. Last Wednesday I asked a question and he was the first to raise his hand, as usual. I said, "someone besides C___." He sighed dramatically, and picked up a book and began to read.
3. Sometimes he makes little comments to his neighbors, which I can only assume are jokes, because it causes them to giggle.
4. On Friday we had a discussion of a text. It was student-led, but he still tried to dominate. I mean, he sat on the edge of his chair with his hand in the air like he was a fifth grader who needed to get permission to go pee.
I hate situations like this. I can't decide if he knows what he's doing and he's trying to annoy me or show how much smarter he is than everyone else in the class, or if he's really that socially awkward and doesn't realize what he's doing. I have the feeling that he wouldn't behave this way if I were a male, but I might just be oversensitive about that.
So far my strategy has been to ignore him whenever possible, but I think I might have to try something else. Ugh.
1. He raises his hand several times every class period, sometimes to ask obscure question, sometimes to add information that he thinks is important. (It usually isn't.)
2. Last Wednesday I asked a question and he was the first to raise his hand, as usual. I said, "someone besides C___." He sighed dramatically, and picked up a book and began to read.
3. Sometimes he makes little comments to his neighbors, which I can only assume are jokes, because it causes them to giggle.
4. On Friday we had a discussion of a text. It was student-led, but he still tried to dominate. I mean, he sat on the edge of his chair with his hand in the air like he was a fifth grader who needed to get permission to go pee.
I hate situations like this. I can't decide if he knows what he's doing and he's trying to annoy me or show how much smarter he is than everyone else in the class, or if he's really that socially awkward and doesn't realize what he's doing. I have the feeling that he wouldn't behave this way if I were a male, but I might just be oversensitive about that.
So far my strategy has been to ignore him whenever possible, but I think I might have to try something else. Ugh.
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