Notes in the Margins

• One of my classes started off with an 'Oppression Unit'
• (above drawing of professor) 'my kid hates me, I'm in therapy. I'm a mean person, i get frustrated.' (this professor used to make lots of tangential remarks about his personal life.)
• (other remarks from the same professor) 'I have more breasts than two! Ask my son.' 'Go look at a lot of bodies.' 'My mother thinks I'm a bad Jew.' 'i taught my kids to be revolutionaries. Now when I tell them to go to their room they defy me.'
• After a few weeks of the above commentary, we began to suspect that his coffee cup didn't just have coffee in it. Oh, and he told us that it was spiked. (joke?)
• 'This class is really cute. He's learning :)' 'Bravo.' 'he is less cute.'
• Exams from my Shakespeare class that only had one TA (in a class of 300) and therefore had to give us multiple choice questions that primarily dealt with how hypermetric, Italianate, and trochees various sonnets were.
• 'yesa hota he' means 'that's the way it is'
• 'he has a large head' 'I think it's just a lot of hair'
• Almost all the notes from one class are surrounded by detailed pattern drawings. Clearly there were some dull moments between note taking.
• From my internship: 'Next Step: Summarize everyones needs, Create something for this year, Create long-term thing' '((who is Arielle? (banners, mailings)))' 'Tardy, etiquette, churches' [no clue what this is referring to...]
• Again from the internship, in large letters, 'Sue has a timeline' [I'd been asking for one for months!]
• I printed out some choice files left on a school computer at a closing school:

dear pen pal,

Sup my name is Tommy c lark. I stay in oakland ca,I play football.I am also yo dad okay.Daddy loves you. I know i havent saw you but i am in your life.I am going to start writing you more often okay.

Scooby Doo Is my favorite cartoon person I just found out that scooby Doo and Shaggy that show is based on weed because they smoke first and when they are look for ghost they are always hungry for food.

Alot of students here own XBOXs but i bet no body even heard of the XBOX 360. The XBOX 360 is the XBOX 2. The XBOX 360 can play regular XBOX glames and XBOX LIVE. The XBOX 360 is mostly white and has some green color. It can sit up straight like the PS2 or just flat down.

• At the end of a journal article synopsis written for a Female Physiology course, 'HPV is a widespread disease that affects everyone, whether indirectly or directly. How it spreads and who is at risk for it are important things to know to develop better prevention methods. Penile scrapings sound painful.' And then a note from the TA "what did you learn?"
• A quiz question from the same class: "Which of the following DOES NOT apply to NORMAL vaginal discharge?" I answered "a. has a fishy, salty odor" but also wrote next to it "fish is bad, but so is too clumpy." And on another handout:

What messages do you wish that you received about sex?

I think everyone did a pretty good job. Although when I was little I thought oral sex involved a lot of talking.

From whom would you have liked to receive those messages?

Well, i first learned the term 'oral sex' from overhearing a bus driver complaining about kids doing it on her bus. That's just nasty.

• 'Note to self: Meacham is the antichrist.'
• 'Rappers' mothers -> on a pedestal'
• (In the margins, to a friend) 'You're a virgin sex machine, it seeps through your skin.'
• Drawing of a girl holding a sign that says 'Down with PowerPoint!'
• A page of notes taken during a guest lecturer:

Even guest lecturers use power point!

The Big Bang (bang!)

Are molecules real?Hooray for Einstein

[in margin] this has so much to do w/ evolution

Molecular clock -> changes in animals seem to follow a pattern. Molecules 'tick' at different rates, those more important change less

(fell asleep)

• 'xtreme baboons'
• 'Rat = Bigger (?)' [I believe this refers to Native Son, but I'm not sure how.]
• Some notes from the video of the Clarence Thomas hearing:

Hill immediately mentions family, church, & education.

Entire panel of white males has bad hair.

panel member picks his nose

• Quote from my professor (the notorious Bettina Aptheker) as she started a lecture on Harriet Tubman. "she suffered from...necrophilia...narcolepsy!" "She was only five feet tall, a very little woman. Watch out for little people."
• Another Bettina quote, after she'd filled up the chalk board with names of famous anti-slavery black and white women. '"I was going to write down some men, but I ran out of room" (hilarious laughter)'
• 'Ray Charles "In one form you say God, in the other you say Baby" on Blues and Spirituals'
• 'reification -> thingifying'
• 'papers will be lumpy, like ginger.'