Ask me meme

[asterroc]

The problem with LJ: We all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about each other.

So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

(Since this is an public entry, I won't be answering any questions that aren't appropriate for a public audience, content-wise and privacy-wise.)

Meme from rumorofrain.

Comments

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

1) When I applied to CTY, my situation was that I'd recently learned that I was being kicked out of grad school, and I was panicked because my world had been turned upside down and I had no clue what I was going to do (or how I would even feed myself, though I've always known I could go back "home" to my parents if I had to). T$ came across the CTY job application online, and suggested I apply as a stop-gap, and I did so. When applying I had no thoughts further than surviving another few months.

Between accepting the CTY position and starting at CTY, I did interview for quite a few permanent jobs, mostly teaching, some year-round. I accepted the offer for my current job over the cellphone while standing in the parking lot at LAN.

At the end of the first year (2004) of teaching at CTY, I knew I wanted to come back, but also knew I probably couldn't take a whole year. After the second year (2005) I decided to try a different summer camp for the next one, and the subsequent two years I've kept myself busy with summer classes. I've always felt returning again was a possibility, but I didn't want to oust my former TA who now teaches the course, so this recent idea to apply as dean as grabbed me.

2) I do not believe any of the former CTY students I've friended here were students of *mine*. I think most of them weren't even students at CTY while I was teaching there. The former CTY students I've friended here were mostly b/c they were friended by people I knew face-to-face as other CTY instructional staff, and I found their blogs interesting in their own right.

There are some former students of mine in my current job that I am still friendly with in real life, though primarily as a mentor-student relationship, not a friendship. If I found those people on LJ I might friend them, but (due to my paranoia) I see no reason to seek them out.

I am actually uncertain how I feel about actually becoming friends with former students. One particular concern I have is that I more readily make friendships with guys (but more lasting ones with girls), and because of this I worry about there being attraction involved - I do not want to have to deal with that sort of awkwardness. I've already had a current student ask me out on a date, I'd rather not face that with any former students. Maybe it's a bit paranoid of me, and maybe it ends up isolating me a bit from people in real life, but I'm not certain. It certainly bears more thinking on my part.