Everybody is a Superhero

Midterm:

For studying: ALL materials including video/music/soundclips

List from Wednesday (on ICON):
How is difference defined?
How is multiculturalism described?

Short essay questions.

London: impending invasion, something to be eradicated
Children: Difference does not need to be feared, onlyTranslated (interpreted).
Rong Radio: Globalization? Im(possibility) of finding authentic story.

Print vocabulary list from ICON.

What role does British intervention play?
Speaking from the inside or outside?
Who is the audience?
Seriously what is this shit about?
Is this a book?
What is paper?

We are doing a bit of freewriting right now. I'll take this time to type about something that I have a problem with. No matter how carefully I prepare or how delicately I eat, I, without a doubt, end up covered in scalding hot cheese and ham whenever I eat a hot pocket. Is it too much to ask for there to be a little bit more dough used on those edges? You don't see a bag of chips exploding whenever you eat half the bag (maybe this is because they only give you half a bag to start out?). Its like if you had a pig and while it was being butchered you got about halfway through and the hind end of the pig just exploded and shot lava everywhere.

Step up your game hot pockets.

Small groups fffffffuuuuuuu-

Do they still sell those giant containers of pickles in plastic bags?

This group is very quiet. I like this.

Everyone talks for four seconds and then starts writing things furiously. I'm copying till they're done. Hermit crabs hermit crabs hermit crabs.

I should probably flip through these books before the midterm. Also; an in-class test instead of a midterm paper? This is a satchel full to the brim of fucks.

Landscapes - distance created. I typed this but I don't know why.

I love how the small group dynamic works in class most of the time. Awkward silence, followed by short but highly opinionated discussion, directly followed by zero-eye contact silence until one group member decides to say something about another group member's backpack or something.

Get outta here, book discussion. This motherfucker has a kindle.

Girl in here is wearing a beret. What does that do? Its not big enough to be warm, its too oddly shaped to be comfortable, and is too outdated and strange to be fashionable. She could wear bonnet and have the same outcome.

I just judged the shit out of you, purple-shirt girl. You and your strange hat.

Has there ever been a class where more than 1/5 of the class participated? 25 people in here and 4 or 5 people talk.

SUPER-GENERALIZED CLASS TEAM ASSEMBLE!
Beard-Man!: hipster with the power to talk about the novel condescendingly while stroking his super-beard!
Mean Girl!: Mutant ability to demoralize anyone who attempts to speak up by talking down to them for "not really understanding what the author has to say." Also, heat vision.
Super-Douche!: Possesses the innate ability to piss off everyone in the room with his presence even though no one knows why!
The Incredible Lush!: Born with a hangover, this girl shows up to 11:30 class every single day looking hungover and upset. The 'incredible' is for her still-functioning liver.
Wolverine: The guy who types stupid blog posts on his laptop and doesn't pay attention.

I get to pick the names, so I'll be Wolverine if I want to.