one of the things i like about the vodo is that once he kinda gets used to you he has no problem doling out the shit. and tonight i was on the businesss end of the shit shovel.
first he accused kelly and me of whispering in class. and it so wasn’t me being the little chatterbox. sure, usually every other week it is me. but not this time. this time it was kelly and ken chittering about blight or something. i was being a good and attentive student.
this, however, did not help me in the least. because at one point tonight, the vodo leaned over the table at grumpy’s and said to me with a stupid grin on his face, “you’re a terrible student.”
hrmph!
yeah, thanks teach. fucker. i was good tonight too. i made a conscious effort not to be a big ol’ bully and talk and talk and talk and talk and then talk a little more. and what’s my thanks? “you’re a terrible student.”
okay. i guess maybe he could have been a little upset about me giving him a heapin’ helpin’ of shit about the proper style to use when you have a scene break at the top of the page. but i couldn’t help it. it was so awesome and so totally anal-nerdy that i had to make fun of him. i think kelly might have actually choked when i asked him if he got that out of the Chicago Manual of Style. the best part was the look on his face when he started to answer the question and he saw my smirk. “i see what you’re doing,” he said.
so maybe i am a terrible student. next week i told kelly i was gonna sit right next to the vodo and far far away from her so i don’t get yelled at for the whispering her and ken have to do in class.
“you’re a terrible student.”
Sounds like he has the hots for you, like back in second grade when the boys would pull the hair of the girls they liked, etc.
My daughters (6 & 11) have a saying, “Whispering doesn’t make friends”. Insecure people worry that the whispering is about them and people who are trying to learn get annoyed as hell that someone would rather talk to their partner than listen to the teacher, I used to think if they want to talk so much why don’t they go out to the hall and have at it, so I can get my money’s worth, but you know me, I’m a kind of anal eccentric.
see dweebie sometime whispering cannot be contained, because if you have a Salinger slam it has got to be said right away in a hushed tone or your head will explode. do you want my head to explode? do you?
And as the offensive whisperer, I’ll say this:
1. Insecure people need to get a grip. If you think that I have nothing else better to do or say than whisper about you, that’s more of an ego problem.
2. There are different levels of whispering. The stage whisper (annoying) and the actual whisper which helps Jodi’s head to not explode.
3. Stopping the class to ask a question that can be answered easily by one person can also interrupt the learning process. What annoys me is people who ask questions of the group that a) only apply to them or b) are simply stupid questions. Ask the person next to you and don’t take up my time.
you are such a teacher.
Only between 7am and 3pm, I swear! But it’s annoying, isn’t it? 🙂
no Jodi, I do not want your head to explode.