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Final Conferences

It’s the last day of final conferences with students, and I’m getting a little punchy. Like, I’m having a hard time resisting the impulse to make chicken noises.

Student: Hi, Mike. Here’s my portfol–

Mike: PUCUUUCK!

I have no idea why I have this impulse.

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11 Responses to “Final Conferences”

  1. et alia :
    December 17th, 2004 at 5:23 pm

    The HSO teaches at a college piano in Boston, and her end-of-semester reactions are similar.

  2. Krista :
    December 18th, 2004 at 9:20 am

    I think you should embrace it and see what happens.

  3. joanna :
    December 18th, 2004 at 10:26 am

    Somewhere there’s a chicken making Mike noises and wondering what that’s about. Merry Christmas from the land of Henrietta Marie, Joanna

  4. cindy :
    December 18th, 2004 at 2:14 pm

    You’re nicer than I, Mike. If a student walked in yesterday saying “Here’s my portfolio” I think I’d kill him.

  5. Dennis G. Jerz :
    December 18th, 2004 at 6:35 pm

    So… you would make chicken noises, but something’s holding you back. Maybe you’re… chicken?

  6. michelle :
    December 18th, 2004 at 10:28 pm

    My last quiz said I harbored the secret desire to roll around in chicken fat so I say embrace the chicken as well. But I think of it more like a bbu-bbuuuuu-bbu-bbuuuu-bbu-bAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK.

  7. Mike :
    December 19th, 2004 at 12:42 am

    Now, Dennis, please don’t ruffle my feathers: I’ve been feeling a little henpecked lately.

  8. John :
    December 19th, 2004 at 3:17 am

    I’d better not enter this colloquy, because I’ll just look like a dumb cluck.

  9. Rob Miller :
    December 20th, 2004 at 12:07 pm

    So, do you think the chicken that makes Mike noises also feels at times as if it is running around like a Mike with its head cut off? Hey Mike…how funny would it be to hear a chicken do a SSG Johnson laugh? Now that is a hoot.

  10. mike :
    December 21st, 2004 at 11:19 pm

    Rob: only if the chicken asked MacGyver, “Fritsch-a-fritsch-a-fritsch-a-want?”.

    (Apologies to other folks for the inside jokes: me and Rob are doing a little Army reminiscence. For what it’s worth, we had a Sergeant in our platoon who used to reminisce that the best thing about being in an Airborne unit in the pre-drug-test Army was doing bong hits before a night jump. God bless you Sergeant Schu, wherever you may be.)

  11. Dennis G. Jerz :
    December 25th, 2004 at 2:06 pm

    Sorry if I egged you on.

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