Education

Yeah, two things happened in my classes last week that are embarassing enough to share here.

First, I once again taught class with my fly unzipped (I've got to wear a different pair of pants when I teach--either that or wear longer shirts (that's the problem--I was wearing a sweatshirt)). Anyway, unlike last time, one of my students pointed this out to me during my lecture. Everyone giggle. I said thanks, turned around, faced the board, zipped up my pants, turned back around, and kept going, making the next section of the lecture much more boring than it had to be to stop the murmuring, and the moment passed pretty quickly.

After this near-porn moment, however, the next class I taught had a real porn moment. I was substituting for a friend, and I was supposed to show a few scenes from Office Space and then use the character's problems in those scenes as an example for explaining this week's essay (a problem-solving paper based on a workplace problem). It should all have worked smoothly, though of course, it didn't quite. I didn't realize it, but evidently, I was supposed to show two scenes, skip a scene, and then show a third scene. I didn't realize I was supposed to skip that scene.

Of course, that scene had its fair share of nudity. And it was also that scene with the pretty famous conversation--"What would you do if you had a million dollars?" Ans. "Two girls at the same time." It's not exactly what you show a freshman class in Lubbock, TX. Maybe an upper level class that has been warned, but not a freshman level class, even if most of them have seen the movie.

I wasn't actually watching the movie at the time and was instead doing some of my own homework, so I didn't realize what was going on until the class suddenly gasped and then started to laugh. Then, it was too late. I decided to pretend like I was supposed to show them that scene, and we watched the film until the real scene we were supposed to watch was over.

The conversation afterward was a little awkward.