I think this is the sixth year that ive taught/watched Beowulf but ive
never
seen the whole thing through. we even read it from the book
this time, with
the kennings and everything. the best kenning that my
students came up with
was “butt-warmer"-"seat".we’ve had the
same big purple books for English IV
in the city for 9 years so I’m
sure things have changed, but we wouldn’t
know. so I just
make copies. last year I went to vineyards with my
boyfriend
and I looked out at the fields, tipsy. I imagined all the
trees
mowed down because i asked for more paper.
today I went upstairs to
get ms. gambino’s kids. I was downstairs
trying to read my book, but I
couldn’t concentrate with all the
silence. i went looking for ms. marouani
because I had a handbag full
of clothes to give her that id brought along
from a clothes
swap/potluck. I followed some weird smell
until i was in
ms. gambino’s room. it was paint. the kids were up on
the heater grate and
tables painting her bolsters blue.
when I took a look later in ms maraouni’s
room, I saw “supersize me”
and I got into the trans-fat discussion that I
always get into when I
see that movie- “have you ever actually measured
McDonald’s meals with
Crisco?” and “did you ever do that thing with your kids
where you
measure out all the fat on a piece of paper, from ONE fast
food
restaurant meal?”
when I came down with the stragglers from ms .
Gambino's , I got to read
again in the four seats across from reggie, a girl
,and five other
rough-housers. I’d gotten through to page 216 when I had to
get
reggie’s hands off Daizha. I was busy texting a friend in Words
With
Friends, getting 18 points and thinking what other word I could
have
used instead….it’s not like I’m waaaaiting for this day to be over-
I
have to haggle with the dry cleaners ASAP after 3:30….
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