yeah.
my self imposed exile is now over, though i didnt realize i was in one until it was pointed out to me that other than going out to see ani in ohio, i have done jack shit with anyone this semester.
photo sucked ass cock....anyone want to know about my prof who went on a 2 month coke binge and then the struggle to get time back so we could get a real semester instead of being taught everything in 3 weeks?
i got an a in western civ 2 and an a in speech.....
ARRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

*and hugs and well done you*

Sounds like you kicked ass regardless!

*hugs*

~hugs~
Sounds like you did good though.

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Originally posted by and back to sparklydelirium74:
anyone want to know about my prof who went on a 2 month coke binge

I, for one, would love to know about that. best college story EVAR!

Way to be a role model, photo prof!

::hugs:: well done, Del.

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Originally posted by Apathy:

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Originally posted by and back to sparklydelirium74:
anyone want to know about my prof who went on a 2 month coke binge

I, for one, would love to know about that. best college story EVAR!

maybe after i have a cup of coffee apathy

I'll show up with bells on when you say the word.

totally forgot to reply to this. well, i guess it will have to wait for 12 more hours cause im ready to go to bed now

oh, and scan in some of my photos too!

I can be patient when the payoff is this promising.

also, I'm still loving the "suck ass cock" part of this whole thing. very nice.

alrighty. here goes......
the semester started out like any other. I took photo because the guy teaching it did undergrad with my father, and i wanted to learn how to properly use a camera. it was darkroom black and white photo, so manual all the way!!!!!!! the first couple of weeks were okay, since our school doesnt have a darkroom, we leased usage of the darkroom at cacc, capital area career center. there were some hitches with chemicals. john told us that the school wasnt paying for chemicals, which i thought was odd, but okay, i could see that. so the class chipped in for chemicals. i personally gave john $40. (i know i know, in retrospect i should have been thwacked with tongsters used underwear). we got an assignment, and it was okay. so a few weeks went by and little things started to happen. like one day we couldnt get into our cabinets to get chemicals to process film or make prints. and he brought in photo series from carbondale, which were nudes, not nekkids....he was moody....i know i know i know, get to it sparkles!
he would talk about his wife and how she was a bitch. he never gave assignments, he hit on a student several times, he invited students over to his house for a party, he drank and got stoned in front of students when they did come over, and he did mushrooms with another one.
the best is yet to come though.......
at the beginning of march, he told us that he was walking into a bar and slipped on ice and bruised his tailbone so he couldnt teach class. then he was gone for 2 weeks. we had a sub, so we actually got assignments. when he came back, he told us that he had been on a 2 month coke binge and had gotten involved with some bad guys who had put a hit out on him, and 4 or 6 of the guys broke into his house and beat the crap out of him, bit him on his legs and put guns to his head. then when he called the police, they didnt believe that his wounds were inflicted by someone else, so they took him to the hospital and was put on mandatory psych lockdown. he was diagnosed with a sex addiction, alcoholism and drug addiction.
so when he came back, he told us all about it. at this point, i should insert the fact that there was a 17 year old in our class. every class period he talked about his sex and coke addiction. and one time, when we couldnt get in our cabinet again (because cacc had it out for john and wanted him to fail as a teacher, or so he said), he apparently called his ex wife and started screaming at her and saying that she was the reason he was a fucking sex addict and all this other crazy shit. he said he was bipolar but refused to take his medication because he didnt need it. he talked about his attack all the time.
so after he was asked to not teach photo anymore due to his unprofessional conduct, he said that we were a bunch of whiners that didnt want to do anything and took everything the wrong way.
well, it turns out that the attack was actually an alcohol cocaine induced halucinations and all of his injuries were self inflicted. then other students in his other classes came forward and he was asked to take a leave of absence to get his head straight, and he took it the wrong way and quit. so when we got a new teacher, john told him that the grade book had been stolen when in truth we hadnt been graded on anything. so being the oldest in the class, i was asked to go talk to the dean. at this point there was about 3 weeks left in the semester and no one had gotten a decent print yet and most of us were still struggling with the equipment because we were never shown how to properly work the enlargers or how to use the filters or anything. it was basically, take pictures, process the film(which was a joke because john kept fucking up on the chemistry so we lost on average about 4 rolls of film, which was about $25), and make prints. and as of the last critique from john, he ripped everyone apart and just started going off on everyone. so i went to david, and asked what he was going to do. we had lost about 6 weeks because of johns irratic behavior, and our new teacher, of course, came in and started giving lectures which john said he couldnt do because cacc wouldnt let him use the equipment, and he gave us assignments. since the gradebook had been stolen, no one had any grades, and the idea that we could fail with three weeks worth of work was terrifying. so we were supposed to get an extension to help bring up our grades....guess what? in the true spirit of the class, the person who was supposed to teach the extension cant do it. so im stuck with a b which isnt bad, and i have a grand total of 4 prints that are remotely decent. so lets see, aside from tuition and the cost of my camera, im out about $300, and my gpa is lowered due to the b. so we once again are fucked......
of course, most of this didnt come out until much later in the semester because everyone knew john was friends with my father and they didnt want to disillusion me, and sierra, the 17 year old who is also the daughter of one of my friends was there when john was talking about his sex addiction and drug addiction, which is not acceptable behavior.
so yeah......i was fucked....
so how was that apathy

here are some of the pics i took

I think that's a shitty way to spend a semester, and it does indeed suck major ass cock that you couldn't have known in time to withdraw from the class.

but at least you got an awesome story to tell for years and years and years to come, and those pictures? they're lovely.

I'm with Apathy, that's one hell of a story. Plus, those photos are fantastic.
But *many hugs*

ya really think so????
::blushes::
thanks guys!!!

they're so delicate...very beautiful, yes.

as i've posted on your facebook, they are gorgeous pictures del

del, the pictures are beautiful i'm sorry you had such a rubbish time of it, but you definitely haven't come away empty handed

thanks guys. for a while i thought i had...