CAMPUS: A Novel That Wants to Be a Musical

Sheeeeeee's baaaaaaacccccckkkkkkk!!!!!! After a long hiatus, Katie Winkler is back with her 14th Episode of CAMPUS: A Novel That Wants to Be a Musical. In this episode, we find out a little bit about one of the fairy god teachers--Ms. McBride, a math teacher. We find out about Ms. McBride's first love, her philosophy professor, Dr. Paul Temple, who ends up not being exactly the man of Ms. McBride's dreams. Well, he had been very much the man of her dreams until, you know, he wasn't anymore because he turns out to be pretty much a rotter. Anyway, listen to the episode, and you will know what I mean. 

Thanks to Anchor for the background music and to my good friends Angela Kantola and Don Wallace for their continuing support despite my long hiatus. Thank you friends!!! 

After a super long break, because the author is actually a real-life composition teacher, CAMPUS is back!!! If you want to know what happened, all previous episodes are available for your listening pleasure. In the last episode, we heard about the rookie teacher's first day. Now, it's the veteran teacher's turn. 

Credits

The  lyrics to "The Cherub Song" are by Katie Winkler, Music, titled "Never you find me," is by Kosta T  via Free Music Archive

License: Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International — CC BY 4.0 

Other music provided by Anchor: The Easiest Way to Make a Podcast

Disclaimer

Hey, guess what, nothing and nobody in this podel, that’s what I’m calling this podcasted novel, is real, including the vampires. Any resemblance to real persons or places, including gnomes, Boojum folk, and the CAMPUS itself is entirely coincidental, I pinky promise. As far as the music goes, I didn't change it at all--just added the lyrics. 

Welcome to Episode 12 of CAMPUS: A Novel That Wants To Be a Musical. Remember Melody, the young gnome teacher who wants to be a fairy godteacher someday? You get to sit in on her first class. Things don't seem to go all that well. Or do they? You be the judge. 

Cory, the vampire, tries to ensnare the innocent Jack Sprat at the Spooky Cat Head Biscuits concert, but the fairy godteachers are having none of it. 

Credits

CAMPUS: A Novel That Wants to Be a Musical by Katie Winkler 

 "Zombify Me" Lyrics by Katie Winkler, Music by Creo (licensed under CC 4.0 International--https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)

Background Music--Main segment--"When the Dead Wake Up" by Robert Abraham (licensed under CC 4.0 International--https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)

Other background music provided by Anchor

Episode art--Photo by Jeroen Visser via Freeimages.com

WARNING! More sensitive listeners, and those with a limited sense of humor, may want to go back and listen to all the episodes so they have a firm understanding that this is a satiric work and makes full use of hyperbole and sarcasm. You might also want to watch The Producers, the one with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, on your favorite streaming service.

In this episode, Dr. DAG has a "meeting" with Ms. Subowski and discusses, among other things, the online quiz about learning styles that has determined he is a tactile learner (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).

In this episode, we meet the villain of the piece. Oh, you thought it was Dr. DAG? What a lightweight! He's nothing compared to Mr. M., who isn't too pleased that the fairy godteachers have chosen Jack and Jill as their proteges and sprinkled them with fairy dust. He has his own plan for them, and it doesn't include enlightenment or inspiration. 

The fairy godteachers share stories of the moments when they understood what it meant to study the liberal arts and knew teaching was their destiny. Could it be that some are not inspired by their song? Oh, yes, yes, it could. 

In this episode, Jack Spratt, the All-American Boy, meets Ms. McBride, fairy godteacher and math instructor. We are also introduced to the third fairy godteacher of the novel, Brian Teasdale--drama instructor, who enters our story disguised as one of the ragged, downtrodden, burned-out teachers who sing "Down at the Diploma Mill."  

This episode takes us back to the stage on the quad at CAMPUS during Club Rush/Advising/Registration Day. We hear the Dog Hobble Trio singing "Get a Job" and the Blue Ridgebacks performing "Hymn to Stem." Oh, we also get a little history about the Moon-Eyed People of Appalachia. 

Happy Valentine's Day!!! I have a special Valentine's day treat for you this episode with a tender love story between a gnome named Gus and a dwarf named Galaxi. I am so excited about it. Also, you will meet, indirectly, Mrs. Whittaker's fairy godteacher colleagues, Mrs. McBride, math teacher, and Mr. Teasdale, drama teacher. You will also be introduced to the members of the Dog Hobble Trio: Gus, whom I've already mentioned, along with Ralph, a human, and Ben, a boojum. But the very best part of this episode is you get to hear my daughter sing, in Irish Gaelic!!!! Pretty cool, huh?