Crazy Teacher
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | High school teacher |
| Location | Smalltown, Deep South, United States |
| Introduction | an almost 50-ish teacher, broke, married to an equally broke state employee, one kid headed for medical school, one in high school, lots of interesting extended family |
| Interests | Running, reading, cooking, staying sane, pre-Vatican II Catholicism, all things teaching |
| Favorite movies | Lawrence of Arabia, Amistad, Schindler's List, Lord of the Rings, Rear Window, Love Actually, It's a Wonderful Life, Star Wars, Hunt for Red October, V for Vendetta, Blood Diamond, The Robe, A Bridge Too Far, Love Story, The Pianist, To Catch a Thief, That Touch of Mink, Casablanca, Indiana Jones, and so on . . . |
| Favorite music | Tchaikovsky, the Strauss brothers, Beethoven, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, the Moody Blues, Elton John, the Gregorian chanting Monks, John Legend, Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye, Aerosmith, Harry Connick Jr., Three Dog Night, |
| Favorite books | The Iliad, The Lord of the Rings, Freakonomics, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, the Divine Comedy, Moby Dick, Life of Pi, Microserfs, Tales of Generation X, A Christmas Carol, Tale of Two Cities, (Everything Dickens), Wuthering Heights, Anna Karenina, Slaughterhouse Five, Heart of Darkness, Cry the Beloved Country, Bread & Wine, The Four Loves, Hiroshima, Night, Faust, The Old Man & the Sea, The Once & Future King, the Book of Job, and many, many more |
The wicked backspin caught you off guard. How will you play it off without losing your footing?
I will stare it down, wait for just the right tenth of the right second, and fire it back. Then, I will fall on my face.