Monday, 28 March 2005

Whilst the comments continue pending on the two live conversations, I have also opened an investigation into Becky's curious habit of re-naming her professors.

Based on my own observations of this fascinating habit, Becky only recently displayed this phenomenon, particularly this current academic year during the previous semester. I, however, must take responsibility as the instigator of this habit but I must also clarify that Becky is the one who continued with this practice.

Last semester, Becky would talk to him during her Monday-Wednesday-Friday noon class after the Major General Music had arrived back from his nightmarish Calculus II class. One day, Becky complained that the class was really boring, proclaiming, "This is a snorefest!" Becky for the longest time did not tell the Major General Music this professor who was so boring, so during Fall Break, I was talking to her and simply called him Prof. Snorefest for lack of a better name during the College/Career Sunday School Class at Cornerstone Baptist Church, much to the bewilderment of Ludington PD Chief Mark Barnett. He questioned the Major General Music and Becky about this but received no information. From there, it has come to this.

Becky has, to date, renamed at least four of her professors, possibly more. According to my archives, she has named the following:

-Prof. Snorefest

-Prof. Notion

-Prof. Nice Shoe Guy

-Prof. Crazy Eyes

No one except Becky knows who these mysterious instructors are, and we know even less of their locations, which remain classified due to security purposes. Our only evidence of their true existence is Becky's constant discussion about this "totally awesome pair of shoes," the tally of how many times Prof. Notion uses the buzzwords "notion" and "genre" during his lectures (records indicate several weeks' worth of tallies), and Prof. Crazy Eyes is suspected to be in a key advisory position to at least one English major at Grand Valley State University believed to be about 21 years old and supposedly wears a name tag which reads "Becky" while working at a Burger King near the university. However, Becky could not be reached for comment at this time. More information will be released about this continuing story as it comes to our press/public relations bureau.

Comments(2)

Naming explained. So why does Becky name her profs? Well, I have decided people I care about (like the boyfriend, the major, and the Angela) want to hear funny stories about my profs, but do not care to know who they are for real. I find it is easier to give a bit of information about a prof which the audience will find appealing. Instead of saying, "In Prof [insert real name]'s class today..." I find ppl pay more attention and remember who these [male] prof's are because I give them funny names. There is one more name I would like to add. This name is different from all the other names because I actually use his real name because I loved his class and have spent a great deal of time in his office. A new hire this year, "Dr. Rob" has been totally inspirational and enouraging. He even is cool enough to have a website. He made us make our own blogs, which I am still using for one of the prof's listed above. Which one? I'm not telling.

dorothygale27

Why is Angela last in that list? Best for last?

Anyway the naming of profs and teachers is an age old tradition practiced since the first students were forced to attend the first schools and thus came up with the first code names for first teachers- but beyond that I believe that the renaming of people is a common enough practice that shouldn't stir up quite so much conversation. Nicknames are given to all manner of nouns and can be either positive, negative, innocuous, or some combination of those. They are rarely meaningless/pointless.

chickenlittle27