Teaching here isn't so bad. Once you accept as one of the ineluctable laws of nature that kids will continue to say 'Silas Mariner' and 'Ancient Marner' and 'between you and I' and 'mischievious' and that the administration will continue to use phrases like 'egregious conduct' and 'ethnic background' you can go on from there.
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We got this jerky sub. she don't know a thing and she's trying to teach it.
Permalink to quote #26 I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
Permalink to quote #25 My words never reached him; I could almost hear them drop, one by one, like so many pebbles against a closed window.
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