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serafina20I really can't stand people who knock intelligence. Even if they're doing it because of really, *really* low self-esteem, as one lady was doing it last night, it just really ... pisses me off. I'm smart and I like being smart and I enjoy making myself smarter. If that threatens you, if you think it's dumb or whatever, fuck you.
And, by the way lady, I don't want to teach fourth grade because that's my knowledge base. I can actually think like an adult, and comprehend like an educated adult, write like one, etc. Unlike you, I continue to learn, and the fact that I'm carrying around that big-ass book in my purse isn't because I'm smarter than you (although I am). It's because I, *gasp*, actually want to learn about something I don't know. And, guess what? My students are going to benifit from the fact I've gotten off my butt and decided to learn something new because, even if I end up teaching second grade? They'll learn about John Adams. And anything else I happen to decide to learn about along the way.
I pity your students. I really do. And I pity you. I wish you felt better about yourself and your abilities and could find a way to motivate yourself. I wish you would learn that constantly putting yourself down really doesn't make yourself attractive to other people and that, more than anything, is probably why you're alone. Believe me. I have the same problem, but it's something I know about myself and am trying to learn from. I hope you do the same.
Viva la education.
And, by the way lady, I don't want to teach fourth grade because that's my knowledge base. I can actually think like an adult, and comprehend like an educated adult, write like one, etc. Unlike you, I continue to learn, and the fact that I'm carrying around that big-ass book in my purse isn't because I'm smarter than you (although I am). It's because I, *gasp*, actually want to learn about something I don't know. And, guess what? My students are going to benifit from the fact I've gotten off my butt and decided to learn something new because, even if I end up teaching second grade? They'll learn about John Adams. And anything else I happen to decide to learn about along the way.
I pity your students. I really do. And I pity you. I wish you felt better about yourself and your abilities and could find a way to motivate yourself. I wish you would learn that constantly putting yourself down really doesn't make yourself attractive to other people and that, more than anything, is probably why you're alone. Believe me. I have the same problem, but it's something I know about myself and am trying to learn from. I hope you do the same.
Viva la education.
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Date: 2004-04-13 11:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-13 01:22 pm (UTC)You're too *young*? Dear Lord, if I see someone young reading a thick book, I feel like dancing. Heck, if I see someone middle age or old I want to dance. What is wrong with people?
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Date: 2004-04-13 01:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-13 01:52 pm (UTC)Well, his eyeballs for one thing - I'm 45 and have gray in my hair to prove it *G*. Secondly, it was this whole diatribe about how one should be out living life and experiencing things and not "just sitting around reading..." Er...huh? I can't decide if the idiocy of the argument bother's me or the fact that this man thought I'd be remotely interested in his completely unasked for opinion! And, not the case, but he didn't know why I was there so, there's the fact that I was in a doc's office and could've had any number of dire things wrong with me that preclude bungy jumping or whatever.
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Date: 2004-04-13 03:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-13 05:25 pm (UTC)Dude, she needs therapy. Her self-esteem issue is SAD.
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Date: 2004-04-15 05:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-16 03:18 pm (UTC)