I sometimes wonder what the students sitting outside my classroom door think of the discussions I have with my students. My classroom is situated in the library (handy dandy for a library class), and there is a small group of study carols within easy listening distance. We have been shushed at times, and one person even closed the classroom door before class started.

My students aren't loud, they're just boisterous at times.

But I digress. Last night we got onto the strangest topic ever. Since class last night was all about the Adventure genre, we spent a fair amount of time talking about the typical Adventure hero. When listing different characteristics of Adventure heroes someone raised the question of whether or not a nerd could be the hero of these stories. In true Kelly fashion I answered their question with one of my own: did they mean a geeky, glasses wearing, calculator using, pocket protector wearing nerd or did they mean a hot nerd?

This is how you can tell that I'm not a real teacher (i.e. teacher by profession, not hobby). Real teachers would never lead a class in a discussion of the hot nerd vs. the geeky nerd. Then again, I think students have more fun in my class than they would in a real teacher's class. I've adopted Kirsten's teaching style where I view my lecture as one big ADS. Real or not, it works for me.

And in case you are wondering, my students gave a big a thumbs up to the hot nerd being the main character in an Adventure and a big thumbs down to the geeky nerd being the star. The student making the strongest case for the hot nerd? One of the guys in class.

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