Question: Riddles and Proverbs

Oh man did my headache not go away, despite the air of refreshment that usually wafts over me when I let you little bastards go early.

Identify a proverb (i.e. a piece of conventional wisdom) that you either follow or are at least influenced by.

Trust me: this is a crappily phrased question, but the answers should more than make up for it.

The books are in ... hurray?

Question: Song

Oh, my patient little charges, my naughtiness is rampant, and I have been remiss in posting the answers to these delightful inquiries: however, I have been (fairly) adept at posting questions, so here's this week's:

Identify a song that is somehow of significance to your group (where, as always, group is defined as you see fit). It might be a very 'traditional" song, but it might simply be an important part of your group's repertoire.

And for those who care, my bra article was published in the most recent issue of Ethnologies: the library should have their copy within days,m and then you can wallow in my brilliance to your heart's delight.

Narratives ...

The question of the week...

Tell me a story

Now, some of you imagine yourself to be quite the deep tyopes, but I ask you to consider this question in the spirit of the course. While I encourage you all to pursue your respective muses, and in any other context would love to hear your hyper-violent vampire lesbian revenge fantasies with a twist ('she's also a nurse!'), but let's look at the slightly more, hmmm, folkloric stuff.

Child's Play

The question:

Describe a game that you learned in childhood (that was not taught in school or by Milton Bradley).

Implied (as always) is who you learned it from, what are the rules for playing, who would you play it with, etc.

Work

Another question, another week:

If (and when) you've had a job, when did you realise that you were 'good' at it?

What's implied in this question? I guess the understanding that beyond the mastery of a set of particular skills is a recognition of same by co-workers, a pattern of 'fluency', and - ultimately - that a 'good worker' is identified as having acheived a certain status within the group.

When I asked a question last year for this topic, I queried: At your job, have you ever been taught a technique (a way of doing something to make the work easier, more interesting, more efficient) by a co-worker as opposed to more formal training? If you are really stumped by the above question, I recommend thinking it through this lens.

And, if you haven't had a job - which as far as I'm concerned includes such things as being a babysitter, a structured past-time with skills and responsibilities like a sports team, and even being a student - well, nicely done.