[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Yes, I am considered to be "sXe" but I don't mind... a few friends have observed (on 4/20, quite fittingly) that they can't imagine me high or anything, probably because I'm messed up enough as is...

Try being born at 4:20 PM. I NEVER should have let that one slip. One of my science classes in sophomore year (I took two courses that year because I like science and had too much free time on my hands) tried their absolute hardest to get me to get drunk with them. It was a year-long fiasco cumulating in me flipping out at them all, saying that they'd have to kill me, drag my corpse to the party, and funnel alcohol down my dead throat before it would happen.

it is usually more that you are having enough trouble trying to control a class who have already assessed you and found you wanting in all departments without being to made to look like an idiot onthe one thing you generally are in control of ie subject knowledge....

Oh my... it never occured to me, although you may not believe it. I actually feel really bad now... Like I said, I like to be proven wrong, because it means that I'm now correct, and that at least one person is paying attention. As for my asking tough questions... it's not to make the teacher look like a fool, its usually far more innocent than that. I just want to know, and since teachers (humans though they are, I suppose) are, in my occasionally humble opinion, the most brilliant people alive (why else would they be spreading the knowlege?), I usually assume that they'll know the answers, if anyone will.

oh and if you ever spot one in a supermarket don't feel obliged to scream "that's my French teacher" with the modulation you might give to screaming "that's an alien from the planet Zog" .... .

What if your French teacher just happens to be an alien from the planet Zog? Is it okay to scream the truth in that instance? All kidding aside, the only time I ever mention if someone is my teacher is if I like the person (as a person, or as a teacher, although I am aware that teachers are real people!). If I don't like the teacher and equate him with a Zoggian alien? That's when I turn and subtly melt into the crowd before said Zoggian sees me and I'm forced to politely converse with someone I don't like but have to deal with on a regular basis. I'd rather test out my casual disappearing skills at that point.

Funnily enough most people who go into teaching do so with good intentions... not because they hate adolescents ...that is a consequence of teaching not a cause....

I'm going into teaching, and already have a little experience, for all that I'm only 17. I like it, but I'd have to say ages 12 and under are a LOT more exhausting than adolescents.

You know, if any of your parents try to ban you from here, just use this line: "Yeah, Mom/Dad, but just look at all the stuff Fea and Encai just learned about the appropriate time to correct a teacher! Where else are they gonna learn that?"

Fea