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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.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/katie-winkler2/support

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.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/katie-winkler2/support

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 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/katie-winkler2/support

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). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/katie-winkler2/support

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.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/katie-winkler2/support

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.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/katie-winkler2/support

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 is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/katie-winkler2/support

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.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/katie-winkler2/support

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?  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/katie-winkler2/support

In this episode, we meet Jill, a single mother trying to make life better for her daughter. Harrassed by vampire Cory Hollifield III, Jill is aided by fairy godteacher Mrs. Whittaker.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/katie-winkler2/support

This week, we see more of Dr. DAG, don't you just love him, and Mrs. Subowski, don't you just love her, who are joined by the Fightin' Fundies who sing their fighting fundies song. We also hear from Jack Spratt who has come to register for classes at the CAMPUS and sings "All-American Boy" to his weeping mother, to comfort her.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/katie-winkler2/support

Remember! This is a social satire. It is totally fiction. The places are not real, and the characters bear no resemblance to any person, living or dead.  I am an old English teacher who wanted to write a novel and a musical at the same time in the middle of a global pandemic. I don't know what in the heck I'm doing, but I'm too old to wait around, so I'm just doing this thing, okay. I plan on getting better as I go along. I know it's weird. And the music sucks--that's kind of the point in this chapter, but it will get better, too. I promise. Just stick with me, and you'll see, or rather, hear what I mean..  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/katie-winkler2/support