Sharp & Loud

Yesterday, I REAAAAALLLLLLY cleaned my office. This was something done to make my wonnerful hubby happy. (Surprisingly, I really like the clean office too. But that's beside the point).

In the midst of the cleaning, I found a paper written while in grad school, which I gave a presentation on during said class. The paper had some issues the teacher didn't like, which I remembered. What I didn't remember is a comment scrawled on the last page of my essay about my performance during the oral presentation. He said that "sometimes my voice sounded sharp and loud. Maybe from nervousness."

No. Really.

Actually, sometimes just for fun I really like to make myself as unpleasant as possible. It had nothing to do with nerves; I'd really rather just weaken my claims/arguments by irritating my audience.

I mean. What kind of comment is that to make on someone's paper? I have written comments on oral presentations many many times, and yes, I will comment on someone's voice if they cannot be heard (saying something from the Thumper school of saying it nicely or not saying it at all) like-- sometimes your voice was hard to hear-- try speaking up. But the sharp and loud, that really kind of hurts my feelings because I have no freakin' idea what he meant, and while maybe I was nervous, maybe he was just hating my normal presentation voice. You would think someone with a PhD and years of experience would be able to figure out a better way of telling me what was happening.

But then again. Perhaps I should go for sharp and loud as my normal style. A la The Nanny. Whaddaya Think?! (read last two words sharply. and loudly).