Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Every Day Is Exactly the Same

Photo: Gilles Chiroleu, Flickr Creative Commons

Three decades. I've got another two and a half until I can retire. You'd think my department head would have realized that I've been teaching for six years now instead of just two. Dammit woman, I've managed to live an entire second lifetime since I was in ninth grade and was your student instead of a colleague. I didn't just cease to exist for the eight years I spent living elsewhere before I came back to this craphole town four years ago. Of course, you freely admit that you have very little grasp of the concepts that numbers embody. I'm cool with that. I'm pretty good at math myself, as long as you ignore things like addition, subtraction, and multiplication. I'd put division in that list too, but everyone sucks at division. Sucking at division doesn't make you special, unless you're a zero.

Of course none of this really even matters. I don't believe in number magic, but it's good to pretend.

7 comments:

Courtney said...

Happy birthday.

Mickey said...

Happy Birthday, kiddo.

You know, I always forget that you're teaching at the same high school you attended. That must be weird on a constant basis. Shoot, I find it strange, even after living here a few months, to be back in the same area code I grew up in. Maybe that's why I don't want to give up my Knoxville phone number.

Jacob said...

We still have our old A'ville cell phone numbers.

A Free Man said...

I like a good division joke.

Do you know the Drive-by Truckers? If not, you should. They have a song called "Buttholeville" that I think would cheer you up. Or something.

30 isn't bad, in fact it's very good. The 20's are vastly overrated.

Julie said...

Thirty really isn't so bad. In fact, I think it's downright special. Enjoy!

Sid said...

Hey happy birthday =)

Chris said...

Well, those of us not in the public education system don't have this handy retire-after-thirty-years arrangement. See, the first sentence of your post proves that math does matter some times.