apparently i'm getting uber crafty

there's more... i'm loving them





so today i'm sitting in my classroom and the icky math teacher strolls on in. he's icky for a variety of reasons, but his obsession with TI-83s and any other calculator the TI family might put out is frightening. FRIGHTENING. he's lost in mind in faculty meetings before when people brought up online books, as though they have been produced by the robot army that is slowly working its way through the bowels of technology, counting the minutes and days until the powerful TIs will be removed from their throne of moving sine graphs. so he strolls in and sort of looks at me and then says "so the students are saying that you've resigned." i tell him that yes, yes i have, and he then stares at me for about 30 seconds. 30 seconds of nothing except glassy, TI-strained, bloodshot eyes. then he sort of looks down and kind of makes these snorty/exhalation noises like a horse, then starts talking to me about....... yep, calculators. after a few minutes of that, he says "well... if you're leaving for personal reasons.. i just.... i mean, if it's personal... i just really think you should give (the school) a chance." i think i said something like "well, i appreciate your opinion." and then threw a TI-83 on the floor and danced in its shattered plastic splatter.