Month: February 2008

  • Do you think it's possible for two people to stay together forever?

    What is forever?  Like Aurora and Tithonus?  How is that possible?  No I do not think that two people can stay together.  Maybe they can be together until one dies, but forever? Nah.  Staying also doesn't include love.  So it's posible to stay together but not loving is possible.  Even in the Greek myth it being together forver is bittersweet at best.  All things end.  Sometimes, most times, it's for the best.

    So I leave you with this poem by one of my favorites.  Sing it to the Yellow Rose of Texas, or Gilligan's Island for all I care.  Heck try Amazing grace!  Enjoy.

    Parting
    by Emily Dickenson

    My life closed twice before its close;
            It yet remains to see
    If Immortality unveil
            A third event to me,

    So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
           As these that twice befell.
    Parting is all we know of heaven,
           And all we need of hell.

       

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  • Do you have difficulty telling people 'no'? Can you give an example?

    Haven't a problem saying no.  Say no everyday.  Students always have unreasonable demands.  Bosses too.  One example was when the Dean for Special Ed told me that our Assistant Sup decided that I HAD to go to the special education collaboration meeting.  I had already been out of the classroom four times in the last three weeks.  My answer was an emphatic "no."

    More specifically I said:  "I am a  teacher.  I have been out too much already.  I don't know what that masculine woman, excuse me--penis-less man, thinks makes a good teacher, since she, it, obviously belives that always being out of the classroom make teachers better.  Personally, I like being in the classroom TEACHING kids.  That's what I think makes a good teacher--TEACHING.  Practicing teaching, by actually teaching, makes me a better teacher.  Not another onerous and officious all day meeting.  Tell her FUCK no!  Tell her she's already taken four days away from my instruction and that I've got at least another three coming up.  If she wants to schedule yet ANOTHER set of useless all day meetings, I'm filing a grievence with the union.  She's keeping me from doing my job."

    Needless to say I haven't been pulled out for useless eight-hour meetings since.
       

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