In an eight week course, we'll be reading 22 "short" stories. The longest story is 30 pages in length with the shortest being only 5 pages.
With the sign-up sheet regarding people volunteering to do presentations, only two people had signed up for Monday's class. One gal was intending to present for "Young Goodman Brown" which was one I really enjoyed reading! I had taken notes on this story (as well as others) and had emailed them to the instructor, as he suggested we do. When he forwarded my comments/questions and discussion material to this presenter gal, she was weird about things. She said something like "after two hours of preparing MY questions I think I'll just stop!" Her email was very terse, but she also said that my material was good and she thought I should "take the credit!" Then, "See you Monday!" I didn't quite catch what she was saying, as i was on my way to an event on Saturday, and was pressed for time.
This morning I sent her a very friendly email and suggested that maybe we meet a few minutes before class to organize our material and decide who was going to talk about what. In my mind we were sharing the presentation, and as she is the more extroverted person I told her to "take the lead" and I would follow! I was never intending to present, and hadn't given it anymore thought. Again another quick email from her that she had no time to meet with me beforehand and would see me on Monday! I had previously said if she didn't have the time, she could always email me anytime, at her convenience.
The instructor sign-up sheet has been made available for the whole class to have access to it. I saw later today that she had removed her name from the list altogether and just bailed thinking that I would just take this on! So now I'm saddled with this tomorrow (which might be okay) but I'm irked with her for her "lack of communication." What is wrong with people? There wasn't any reason we couldn't do this together but she's also the kind of person that's a rambler and easily gets off topic, so maybe it's best for me to go solo.
So, here I am getting a bit anxious about this whole situation. I have done not a single workout yet, but hope to do something tonight...as a stress reliever.
I'm thankful most of the students are men and there are only a fraction of *itches in this class!"