one: I said to A, after she said, I love your shoes! where do you get all those shoes! that: oh, thanks, I make all my shoes in my basement at home.
Really? said A. You know how to work with leather?
two: The students are doing group projects about parts of speech. The pronoun group is mad at me because "pronouns are really, really boring." I say to this: what? pronouns are amazing! yeah! go pronouns! they are so so cool! Yeah! And I punch the air a couple of times.
Then I bend over and give them this line in a totally different teacher persona:
Okay, guys. I'll be honest with you. A pronoun is really just the noun's ugly cousin. Like, a noun is all cute and flirty and then you look at a pronoun and she's frumpy and her teeth are weird and she has no social awareness.
And then I walk away.
Same shit, different outfit.
2 comments:
What! Pronouns aren't boring. Just ask a any two English or Linguistics majors whether "you" may ever be properly used as a third person pronoun and watch the drama fly.
I'm emailing Liz. I'll let you know.
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