Wednesday, January 03, 2007
@1:59 AM
Took quite a bit of effort to type out what I enjoyed from the book I'm reading now.
'Tis is the title.
Is this what I'll do for the rest of my life, take the subway ... tell my students day after day, sit down, please, open your notebooks, take out your pens, you don't have paper? Here's paper, you don't have a pen? Borrow one, copy the notes on the board, you can't see from there? Joey would you change seats with Brian? Come on, Joey, don't be such a, no, Joey, I didn't call you a jerk, I just asked you to change seats with Brian who needs glasses, you don't need glasses, Brian? Well, why do you have to move, never mind, Joey, just move, will you? Freddie, put that sandwich away, this isn't the lunchroom, I don't care if you're hungry, no, you can't go to the bathroom to eat your sandwich, you're not supposed to be eating sandwiches in the toilet, what is it, Maria? You're sick, you have to see the nurse? Okay, here's a pass, Diane, would you take Maria to the nurse's office and let me know what the nurse says, no, I know they won't tell you what's wrong with her, I just want to know if she'll be coming back to class, what is it, Albert, you're sick, too? No, you're not, Albert, you just sit there and do your work, you gotta see the nurse, Albert? You're really sick? You have diarrhea? Well, here's the pass to the boy's room and don't stay there all period, the rest of you finishing copying the notes on the board, there will be a test, you know that, don't you? There will a test, what's that, Sebastian, your pen ran out of ink? Well, why didn't you say something? Yes, you're saying it now but you could have said it ten minutes ago, oh, you didn't want to interrupt all these sick people? That's nice of you, Sebastian, does anyone have a pen to loan Sebastian? Oh, come on, what's that, Joey? Sebastian is a what? A what? You shouldn't be saying things like that, Joey, Sebastian, sit down, no fighting in the classroom, what's that, Ann? You gotta what? Go where, Ann? Oh, you got your period? You're right, Joey, she doesn't have to tell the whole world, yes, Daniela? You want to take Ann to the bathroom? Why? Oh, she doesn't ah speak good English, so what does that got to do with her having her? What's that, Joey? You don't think girls should talk like that, easy, Daniela, easy, you don't have to be insulting, what's that, Joey? You're religious and people shouldn't talk like that, okay, easy, Daniela, I know you're defending Ann who needs to go to the toilet, the bathroom, so go, take her there, and the rest of you copy the notes on the board, oh, you can't see, either? You want to move up? Okay, move up, here's an empty seat but where's your notebook? You left it on the bus, all right, you need paper, here's paper, you need a pen? Here's a pen, you need to go to the bathroom? Well, go go go to the bathroom, eat a sandwich, hang out with your friends, jesus.
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Another paragraph, cocky.
Teachers are the only professionals who have to respond to bells very forty-five minutes and come out fighting. All right, class, sit down. Yes, you, sit down. Open your notebooks, that's right, your notebooks, am I speaking a foreign language, kid? Don't call you kid? Okay, I won't call you kid. Just sit down. Report card grades are just around the corner and I can put you on welfare rolls. All right, bring in your father, bring in your mother, bring in your whole damn tribe. You don't have a pen, Pete? Okay, here's a pen. Good-bye, pen. No, Phyllis, you can't have the pass. I don't care if you're having a hundred periods, Phyllis, because what you really want to do is to meet Eddie and disappear into the basement where your future could be determined by one smooth panty drop and one swift upward stroke from Eddie's impatient member, the start of your little nine-month adventure that will end with you squawking Eddie better marry you, the shotgun aimed at this lower frontal region and his dreams dead. So, I'm saving you, Phyllis, you and Eddie and no, you don't have to thank me.
There's a rooftop cafe in my new school. Oh, yay!
