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[hathycol]

Tomorrow there is a lcturers strike. The School of Languages is in support; my Russian Lit guy "has a funeral in England" on the day of the strike, so is basically running for it avoid crossing the picket line.

The School of History is not, as far as I can tell. This means that I have to go to my morning lectures through a picket line of angry lecturers (mostly science, though) which will be good fun indeed. Not least because, well, why not the morning ones cancelled?

I'm sort of in a half-mind about the entire thing. I support the reasons behind the strike - they totally should get better pay than they do, and a strike for a day is a good idea.

But what goes on after the strike? They're not marking any work. Last time, the university gave in after a day of striking, so it's not an issue. However, that's all my essays buggared up if they do strike from marking them. I get my gobbet back on Thursday and will then proceed to run around like a nutter trying to get two more done in the space of less than a week, but honestly, what if they cancel doing all the work? I can't help but feel that, maybe, well, that's a bad plan. Because I pay for this, y'all. And then I realise that I have become horribly, horribly middle-class in my ethic and feel generically ashamed.

So, um, yes. We'll see how it all goes tomorrow.

Today I shouted at a yah in lectures. Anyone sitting in front of me with their collar up (one day, I will do an essay on why a chav and a yah are basically the same, but that is not this day, I don't have time) is likely to ge my goat up, but he was laughing and talking and joking with the other yah next to him. This made concentrating on the French Enlightenment a little tricky, as you can guess. So I shouted and felt good about myself for a while.

And now, to Russian Literature. And a late night in the library researching like crazy for my mediaeval history essay. Is it wrong I'm debating one of the questions because I think it sounds like Kingdom of Heaven? Seriously, I have been to all the wrong lectures this year for ME1002. Argh.

~Hathy_Col~

Comments

[elyim.livejournal.com]

Do you ever say "y'all" when you are actually speaking?

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

Only when speaking in netspeak.

And yes, I do speak in netspeak every so often. I can hold an entire conversation with words like "kawaii!" and "omgwtf?" and "omFg!" as a cistinct part of it. It's... interesting to hear.

[ex-spockette108.livejournal.com]

If there are picket lines, we are excused from attending classes and don't have it counting as an absence. That's what happened during the last strike, anyway. Odds are, there won't be picket lines, though. Even so, it's a valid reason to skip (and will give me time to work on my essays!). I don't know what's going on after the strike - if History aren't taking part, we shouldn't be too fucked, but the essay thing really does suck. It might carry on through until exam time, too. Argh. And I should be in Russian right now. I am a bad child.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

You should have been in Russian! There was probably some interesting stuff! God knows, I listened for thirty seconds and read the Gesta Francorum for the rest of it.

[ex-spockette108.livejournal.com]

Russian really is quite, um, boring of late. At least you did better than me last time I was there, and you actually did something related to academia. In my last Russian lecture, I tried very hard to listen but ended up writing Ten/PTSD!Romana fic in my notebook...

[tau_sigma]

Ooh, picket lines ... I hadn't thought of that. The president of the AUT Durham branch happens to be one of my maths lecturers, and is not striking because we have a lecture on Tuesday which he thinks is more important than his strike. What?! I mean, yeah, very nice of him, but would have thought he should support his union's decision? Also, he is well known as an all-round knob, so meh.

Um. You are terribly right, and I feel a little bad for my total lack of thought any further than 'yay! One of my lectures tomorrow is cancelled!' which is quite pathetic. I hope they still mark our stuff...

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

Your dude is an eejit. *nods*

Don't worry, I'm equally 'yay!' regarding a lack of Russian Lit. I hope they still mark our stuff...

[shoe--gal.livejournal.com]

Scottish History are striking...not sure about the rest of the School, but I think they did before. Even if your particular tutor is not a member of the AUT it might still affect the return of work, because all tutors have to swap a sample of work with a colleague for moderation. I have vague memories of last time not being able to return work for about a month...but then a couple of weeks of that was easter holiday...so I can't remember how long the strike itself lasted.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

No e-mail as of yet telling me that Mediaeval are striking, and my Modern dude is definitely doing the lecture. It would be the morning ones...

God, I hope my work is returned. I'm banking on getting my gobbet back so I can understand how to do the other two which are due in six days after we get it back. *holds tongue from saying VERY RUDE THINGS ABOUT A LACK OF ORGANISATION in case you are friends with my tutor*

[shoe--gal.livejournal.com]

Well, you might find you get your work back with comments, but not marks, which I guess would be better than nothing, although not ideal if it's gobbets. I have a feeling that's what I am going to end up doing - as a non-AUT member there's nothing to prevent me giving work back, and giving feedback on it, but until the work has been moderated, we can't release actual marks. But I am the only non-AUT tutor for my particular module - if there was another one it would be OK as we could just moderate for each other.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

As I said, I get why th strike is taking place, in favour of it, etc, etc, but erk. This is 25% of my coursework grade in the balance here. At least I'm only a first-year, so it doesn't matter too much!

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

No, wait, JUST got the e-mail saying medieaval is cancelled. Partially good, partially crap because I need tomorrow's lecture so I can learn about the essay topic I foolishly decided upon. Oh, crumbs.

[helenllama.livejournal.com]

You do know you are not supposed to cross a picket line don't you?

Therefore take the day off....

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

No picket line. I suspect all the tutors stayed in bed.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

Bloody well will look into that, if they don't mark my work.

[me-and.livejournal.com]

I want this (http://www.bustedtees.com/shirts/collarup) t-shirt. There are far too many collar-up yahs here, and they all make babies cry.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

We have a facebook group that's simply labvelled as thus:

"PUT YOUR FUCKING COLLAR DOWN."

[me-and.livejournal.com]

I'm going to break out the bullet points here. In alphabetical order, we have:

• As I don't generally wear collared shirts, I am lost as to how to express my socio-economic status [188 members]
• Collared shirts are designed to be worn down with a tie, and not used to depict your social status [4 members]
• I am Poor and I Wear My Collar Down [96 members]
• I wear my collar up and a scarf when it's cold and interpreting this as a sign of class conciousness either way is just plain stupid [7 members]
• Proletarian Popped-collars Resistance Front [5 members]
• Wearing Your Collar Down Is For Poor People [330 members]
• Wearing Your Collar Up Is For Dicks [154 members], and finally
• Wearing your collar up is for the Non-U (and if you don't know what that means that confirms everything I have ever suspected of people who 'pop their collars') [5 members]

We take our Facebook groupings seriously.