hey new friends, it's story time

[cruiscin_lan]

So I'm too lazy to post an actual "hey new friends" thingy, so here. Go look at that if you're curious.

And now onto storytime! More adventures in substitute teaching!

I've only been at this for a week, and I think I'm doing pretty well. Today I heard a rumor about myself! Apparently I'm gay, because a student was using the term in a disparaging way, and I warned him that if he didn't knock it off I'd give him a detention for obscene language or something. Something got lost in the retelling of that incident, I think - or else something was elaborated. I'm not sure which.

But the kids in Honors English 12 are brighter than many (if not most) of the college students I've taught. They finished all their work with two-thirds of the class time remaining, so I invented a game where I'd write a Latin root word on the board and they'd take turns deriving English words from it. For future reference: "pterodactyl" is in no way related to the Latin "terra," meaning "earth," no matter how creatively you insist on spelling it. Most dinosaur names that I know of are from Greek.

ALSO NEW FRIENDS because I'm a total comment-whore, go read all my fic ever except the stuff from comment_fic that I can't find again. Oops. But anyway, I've got it arranged pretty neatly, and I hope you'll be able to find at least one or two pairings you like in there.

And hey, since your new friends, you can also laugh at all the high school stuff I've posted here.

Finally, peeps, I've made a separate filter for Dad-related stuff, so if you're interested in knowing the Keith to my Veronica Mars, let me know. If you've been my friend for a while you're already on it, but if you want off let me know, too - it's been a bumpy ride thus far and it ain't getting any smoother, so I don't blame you if you don't want to know.

Also. ashesfor_trees. Write me a play about a devoted Heroes fan who loses their head because of recent plot developments. You could call it A Fan for All Seasons.