Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
as an English teacher you don't get to award yourself a new title for telling people how many times they said "um
and yet again, I was doing it wrong. I had many titles, including La Maestra Suprema, Lady Miss G, and Empress of Grammar.
If they hadn't fired me, I'd be Potentate of the Multiverse by now. Stupid wonky uterus ruined my 'verses domination. Bitch.
I miss public speaking. That was a good part of my MI job. Overshadowed, but good.
Where's the cranberry? Seems like a gimme.
Oh, dear god, ita.
That was nastier than goatse.
I think that looks fun! And possibly delicious.
But you'll remember my obsession with meat muffins last winter....
::deletes Jesse::
IIRC, our own Billytea is a member.
I am indeed, though given my history with the FAC, this may not settle the matter.
Anyway. It's a public speaking club. It gives people a safe venue in which to give speeches and get peer feedback, and a program to work through different aspects of speechcraft.
I had considered joining Toastmaters at one point, but the uberserious turned me off.
This baffles me. I've been a member of several TM clubs, and never encountered anything like this. What do you mean by uberserious?
It basically sounds like Toastmaster's needs 6 people to do every month what 1 English teacher does every day.
Um. No.
Um. No.
I'd hope that's the case, given that I know it's been an important thing for you -- on the other hand, they seriously need someone to include moar fun and less Robert's Rules in their website and wikipedia page.
BT, for me it was the titles, and repeating everyone's titles, and clapping people up and down to the stage, and all the letters after everyone's names, etc. Just set me twitching.
Unrelated to that, I was reading through the suggested table topics guide and their suggestions were all weirdly inappropriate, for a work setting anyway. Very strange.
People have had fun at the two we've had so far though.
Oh, BT, I was being snarky, and I think it came out snotty. Sorry.
It sounds more like what I WISH had happened in all my classes in which I had critique circles. in reality, all too often feedback was like "OMG, he didn't die giving that speech! 100%!!"
Take off the marshmallows and I'd be all over that "cake". Stuffing, good; mashed potatoes, good; sweet potatoes, good. Heck, substitute cranberry sauce for the marshmallows, yum.