One of the things I've learned over the years is that people are complicated. I can admire (and make use of) Linus's analytical skills while entirely agreeing that how he comes across is rather difficult at times. And likely to cause him trouble. And on the whole, I prefer a world where we as staff don't get to make students into our image of the perfect person, even if it would solve certain problems.
Linus does have a good heart under there, even if it's rather buried by flowery language and a lack of understanding of the world much of the time. That's more than you can say of rather a number of our recent Head Boys and Girls.
While I'm reminded of it, though - there are some plans for the coming year I was meaning to ask if you'd be interested in helping with. A series of lectures from artists, writers, people in theatre and the other performing arts. We've put out some initial invitations, but there'll be more to come. If you think it's too much, perhaps you might suggest someone suitable to help? (It'd likely mean a few meetings, and then helping out when the actual events take place, nothing too tedious.)
I'll say here that I have a rather freer hand with deciding who to invite than I did with the YPL, so I have reason to hope it will be along the line of the better of those kinds of things, rather than the horrible ones.
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Date: 2014-08-16 06:48 pm (UTC)Linus does have a good heart under there, even if it's rather buried by flowery language and a lack of understanding of the world much of the time. That's more than you can say of rather a number of our recent Head Boys and Girls.
While I'm reminded of it, though - there are some plans for the coming year I was meaning to ask if you'd be interested in helping with. A series of lectures from artists, writers, people in theatre and the other performing arts. We've put out some initial invitations, but there'll be more to come. If you think it's too much, perhaps you might suggest someone suitable to help? (It'd likely mean a few meetings, and then helping out when the actual events take place, nothing too tedious.)
I'll say here that I have a rather freer hand with deciding who to invite than I did with the YPL, so I have reason to hope it will be along the line of the better of those kinds of things, rather than the horrible ones.