Monday p.s.

I've got a student in one of my 102s who seems bent on challenging me in a (so far) passive-aggressive way. He had his reading journal on his laptop today. I allowed him to refer to that but told him to print a copy and leave it on my office door. I just checked my e-mail, and he'd e-mailed it to me--with nothing else in the message, not so much as a "Here's my journal"--and this after I'd made a point to say that I don't accept assignments via e-mail without the student having received prior permission.

He got a pretty stern reply from me. It will be interesting to see if he shapes up or if he's going to test me some more. His adjective for himself in my ice-breaker "name game" was "lazy." I was surprised, as I'd had him pegged as ambitious and highly intelligent. But he seems to want to prove that he is--or, really, that the rules don't apply to him. We'll see how long that lasts. If it's a pissing contest, I'll win, regardless of who has which set of genital equipment.