Literal doesn't mean literate....

OK, so in Intro to Theatre this semster, I have my students do a final project. They read a play that we have not covered in class and they choose from several options: playwright, actor, designer, publicity, etc. and do that job for the play they choose. Top two plays are: A Raisin in the Sun and Death of a Salesman...ugh...if I never see another project on either of those, I...but I digress... A student did a publicity campaign on A Raisin in the Sun. I ask them to do a short presentation where they tell me what their target audience is and their theme for the campaign (which is supposed to be in line with the director's concept). She got up and said, "my target audience is everyone because everyone should see this play...sigh...whatever. Then she held up her poster. It had a 5-year-old's drawing of a yellow sun, and below the sun was lettering on it for the title, date, time, etc. She said, "well, my theme is, well, there's a sun on it..." I thought good god...yawn, lame... THIS IS NOT THE BEST PART.

After class I was carrying the poster to my office and the graphics design prof and a music prof were standing outside my office. I said sarcastically, "look, this is from my star pupil." The graphics guys goes, "where is the raisin?" The music guy goes, "right there." Ready??!!! She had ACTUALLY DRAWN A RAISIN UNDER THE SUN on the poster. OMG!! If I had seen that in class I would have fallen out of my chair in hysterics. Maybe I'll post a picture one day. I'm so glad I'm on winter break....

Burning Man II, the sequel...

I got the grant for Burning Man 2010. If I can only find a student that wants to go. Can you freakin believe that??!!!! What I wouldn't have given for a chance like that... I'm going if I have to hold a gun to someone's head and force them to go....