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April 19, 2006

[Gainfully?] Employed!

Well, I just got an official job offer to teach at Washington College. I will be a guest lecturer. Doesn't that sound nice? It makes it sound like I will have my own monogrammed towels hanging in the bathroom, bonbons on my pillow every night, and underwear that gets folded and ironed by someone with gentle, caring hands.

In reality, it means I get a pretty embarrassing amount of money (embarrassing small, not embarrassing big) but I'm in no position to complain, as I will be getting some good college teaching experience in, and have wangled matthew free entry to the facilities (not just toilets! ...library! gym! pool!). So, I'm pretty excited.

You will never believe what I am teaching, though.

Digital Imaging. Frankly, I wasn't even sure what that meant. After some quick google research, it apparently means just about anything you do on a computer. The current curriculum covers photoshop, a tiny unit on powerpoint, and imovie. It sounds like I have free reign, so I'm probably going to do photoshop, illustrator, and a short intro to indesign. I guess it sort of depends on the students. imovie isn't cross-platform, so I'm not sure if I would want to teach it because of its not-very-usefulness (if people really want to do video editing, shouldn't it be in FinalCut or something like that?), except that there is a media lab that a lot of the students are getting involved in where they make video shorts, and since there's no film class, the digital imaging class is the only place it can happen in the curriculum. This aside from the fact, of course, that I've never actually had any film/video theory or anything. We'll see. I'm still pondering. I have a lot of work to do over the summer, though. Refresher in photoshop, if nothing else. Luckily, much like in quantum physics, no one can ever know everything about photoshop, so I'm not too worried. So, maybe I should apply for a position in quantum physics, too.

Posted by ribbu at April 19, 2006 09:44 AM

Comments

I can probably handle the mongrammed towels and bonbons, but you're on your own regarding the underwear.

Posted by: Matthew at April 19, 2006 12:50 PM

Awesome! Professor Behr ... If you need a guinea pig for your summer refreshing, count me in :)

Posted by: snikes at April 19, 2006 03:23 PM

i too am guinea pig-able. i want to learn how to be a digital artist (not to mention a college student). count me in.

Posted by: ming at April 21, 2006 12:40 AM