Sunday, December 25, 2005

threat



I am going to put Neal Robert Klomp into my scanner, close the lid and compress him into a .jpeg.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

and with this post you are seeming to allow YOUR grades to influence your GRADING.
true or not this is what some may see.

Hilary said...

Anonymous poster: I respectfully disagree with you that this post suggests that I'm allowing my grades to influence my grading.

It's perfectly normal for "A" writers who submit incomplete or rough porfolios to receive a grade of B+. They do not deserve an A simply because they are articulate and smart: they have to do all the work to earn a high grade.

My post simply points out that the process of reviewing these four porfolios provided me with some perspective on how I earned my own B+.

h

Hilary said...

Which is to say that, while it might be possible to misread my earlier, more concise post as suggesting that my grades influence my grading, that certainly is not what happens.

However, from a long-term perspective, I'd also like to pose the alternate argument: our grades are _always_ influenced by the way that we have been graded.

Having attended a small liberal arts college grounded in independent study, I am less likely to place tremendous importance on grades (my grades or my students). Our personal experiences certainly influence our practices: this is especially true with the qualitative and implicit practice of "grading", where there is no universal definition of what each grade represents.

neal said...

it is not the thing itself but the appearance of the thing itself.

Anonymous said...

this is boring. please get over this and move on.

Hilary said...

Mitchell:
For more exciting tidings from me, check your email.
Hilly

Hilary said...

and Neal: if that was you, I am coming to to your house and beat you up. I thought that Anon was like Marback or Jeff or something. Scared the hell out of me. Like I needed that. Good job.

neal said...

sorry, needed to be said, spretzaturra don't you know.
Hilary Ann Ward you cannot stuff me into a scanner, you are already in a pasta box in the cupboard.
and easy on the proper nouns.
Hanging out....? tomorrow, tuesday?????

neal said...

i am neal and that does mean 'asshole' in an ancient german dialect.
actually my name might be translated to mean asshole Robert on Sofa or Pile of Dirt or in a wooden shoe...

Hilary said...

Neal neal neal neal neal. "Neal Robert Klomp"+alt.lobster.fetish. Easy on the anonymous posting and I'll lighten up on the proper nouns.

See you tomorrow sweetie. I have to go to my mom and steve's family's christ dinner thing or whatever till about 5 or 6. Then I'm coming to get you and beat you up and possibly see the movie narnia.

Anonymous said...

*puts hand over face as blindfold, blindly stabs at keys...*

bndc,nggvc bvmn,v b

Hmmm...


b = 3
n = 3
d = 1
c = 2
, = 2
g = 2
v = 3
m = 1
= 4

Saturday?

Anonymous said...

VOODOO!!!!

get out your digital hatpins.

neal said...

where is my goatee?

Anonymous said...

"I wonder if he has a nose," Vicki wonders as she has never met Neal R. Klomp and this is the only image she can see at the moment. "But I do like how he ties his shoe laces," she thinks, "so I will overlook the lack of nasality for the moment." (I feel like Derrida making new words and shit) ;>