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Quick update about class. I have not seen C.A.S. since last week and she has been charged. If she comes anywhere on campus ever again she will be arrested. We are all being asked to compile reports of the incident and submit them to the department head, mostly as a legal buffer/protection for our wonderful professor.
Off to class now!
Today I entered class under something like armed escort.
This may be a slight exaggeration, but the Raleigh police (not campus security) were standing outside the front door of our building, outside the door of the classroom, and I think at other locations. As soon as I got inside P.H. told us that we would be moving to a different room. We were to file out in ones and twos so as to avoid detection. (I know!!!)
As I was leaving with my safety buddy we saw C.A.S. being cornered and confronted by the police.
Once we were in our new, secure (?) classroom everyone started talking and had different things to share. Possibly the scariest bit of all is that she had a professional camera in class on Monday and was taking pictures of the professor and everyone who talked to him at the end of class. Also I learned that she believes we all watch too much porn to be able to rightly interpret any of the material we would be reading this session and that was because we are all country hicks.
Good to know!
My understanding is that she was charged with trespassing and that there will be security guards/police at every class meeting for the rest of the semester. We made jokes about changing classrooms EVERY DAY so as to further elude her wiley self. Perhaps we could fashion a secret code about the location of each day’s meeting?
As funny and bizarre as it all is, I deeply appreciate the measures being taken and am glad that the situation has been treated seriously. The professor said that she didn’t impress him as being violent, but we can’t know that of course and every precaution is being taken.
So! The saga continues. Hopefully tomorrow will be uneventful? This is, by far, the most bizarre occurrence of my academic career. And I went to a BAPTIST college!
Well HIIIII there. You weren’t expecting me to write anything here were you? That is a good idea though, now that you mention it.
Truly, I have been amazed by my own powers of laziness.
But want to hear a funny story? I have one. Maybe it’s more like a knock-knock joke. Anyway here we go:
Professor of Southern Writing: Why do you think the there was not a strong theatre in the South until around the 1940s?
C.A.S.: Well, in Europe the colonies were worried about being eaten by wild animals.
Rest of class: WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
My summer class started this week and Monday was the single most bizarre experience of my academic life so far. C.A.S. (short for CRAZY ass student) monopolized the whole class with completely incoherent and unrelated ramblings about God only know what. There were a lot of references to “europe” “colonies” and “wild animals.” In the beginning the professor let her talk. But the more it continued the more he made repeated attempts to intercept and get back on track. This did not work. She interrupted HIM and went right on talking about those crazy colonies and their crazy economies. At times the rest of the class tried to help! Pointing out that what was being said was not relevant. AT ALL. I tried my hand… when the professor asked if we had any questions about the papers we would be writing C.A.S. responded with a long essay regarding … well I really have no idea what it was regarding. I tried to break in and say that he has actually been asking if we had a question about the paper! Did she have a question about the paper?!?! She said “Well, if you would not interrupt me and let me finish!” And went on with her totally not paper or question related vent.
After class I emailed the professor to let him know that based on Tuesday and her behavior I would make my decision to stay in class or not. I expected to drop. I am not capable of that level of patience to sit through 5 weeks, 1.5 hours a day of insanity.
Apparently the professor was way ahead of me. They had spoken. She had been told that the class would not be appropriate for her and that she should drop.
Scene: Tuesday, Tompkins Hall, NCSU
I approach the class and see C.A.S. stalking away angrily after being confronted by the professor outside the room. She had been reminded of their chat. I go on in and the first half of class proceeds as any great course on Southern Writing should.
Halfway through class look who just came in!!!! C.A.S.! Hooray! She enters and doesn’t even sit down before Professor Hero I will call him asks her to speak with him outside. They exit, more words are spoken. He departs to find the department head and she comes back into the room and starts yelling about filing a formal complaint. P.H. returns with the department head and departs with C.A.S. for a private conference. Ten minutes later sheeeeeee’s back! Bafflement among everyone. She is vague about the results of the conference with the department head but says that she will not say another word in his class. P.H. makes the strategic decision to continue as if she were not present, and does so.
Class ends and P.H. asks C.A.S. if they can speak privately in his office. “I’d rather not” responds C.A.S.
This, folks, is what I know so far. Class begins today in about an hour and a half and who KNOWS what excitement lies in store. We did get an email yesterday from P.H. saying that he did expect a resolution to the situation and that the Office of Student Conduct and Campus Security were both involved in the matter. I am fully expecting to see a violent resisting of arrest if I get to class a few minutes early today.
I’ll let you know!
So. Hi. What’s up with you? Guess what I did last night? Any ideas? I…. bought a car. My dream car. Because I could.
Aint it PURTY?!?!
My new DREAM CAR is the Saturn Astra. It has five doors (the top pic is the 3-door and shows the color better) and it is this pretty blue color. I will take a pic of MY astra asap and fill you all in. For now I am LOVING being behind the wheel of this wonderful machine. Gotta go practice my stick shift!
My cat is trying to trick me.
Langston 1) knows how to open doors 2) has been doing extremely suspicious investigations regarding the toilet 3) knows to come wake me up around 6am since she gets fed as soon as I get out of bed in the morning. That last bit has created a bit of confusion though since naps and nighttime bathroom trips are greeted with the same! ecstatic! meowing! In other words, she generally celebrates like your average highschool cheerleader whenever I rise from my bed. Right now she is on the bed with me, shoving her head up under my hand, and then trying to lead me with her head OFF! the bed! and into! the kitchen!
She’s hilarious, that one is.
