TODAY
It's not every day that you sit in a gay cruising park, smoking a stale cigarette and having a long conversation with your ex-husband about how to meet women.
It was a good conversation. I'll write about it sometime. But for now I'll just savor the fact of it.
It's not every day that you open your back door to a virtual shower of gold — paper-thin walnut leaves falling in profusion, set adrift by a killing frost, floating into your dining room, dancing around your head, carpeting the entire yard.
You know then it's not going to be a regular day.
It's not every day that your student tells you something awful that happened to her. And you know she is embarrassed and is only telling you because it means she missed class. And you get to reveal: "The class is not important. Don't give the class another thought."
posted by kc @ 9:43 AM
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That photo is amazing. It must be very still there.
Did Steve give you any tips? Hehe
I'm biting my lip not to lecture you about smoking.
This is Ben's deleted comment from above. I'm reposting it to remove the proper name of someone who shares my employer:
The class is not important. Don't give the class another thought.
Victor C. always used to tell his students at the beginning of each semester that many things were more important than coming to class.
He illustrated his point with a story about one time when he skipped Latin class on a beautiful early spring day when he wanted to go fishing. His teacher was known as a real hard-ass, so when he ran into him just before class (and Vic was heading away from the classroom), he was afraid what his professor would say. But his professor just smiled and asked how he was doing.
Vic had thought he was just being boyishly irresponsible, but then he realized that going fishing was more important than Latin that day. So he told us that we should skip class if we ever had something more important to do.
Oh, I hope your kid is OK.
The ones who have every mishap known to man befall them on an every-other-class basis -- they're the ones who should be embarrassed, for their dishonesty.
(Erin, I don't smoke. Thus the "it's not every day...")
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