okay so yesterday was a first for me. My friend cathy toolan asked me to come teach about t.v. writing to her 8th grade english class at rye neck middle school. I thought this was going to be a total breeze. boy was i misinformed!! TEACHING IS REALLY HARD!! I have a whole new found respect for teachers. not that i didn't think it was hard, most jobs are hard, but phew, i wanted to go to sleep at 2:45 after teaching 3 classes!! the students were really nice, although i was bummed to see all the girls too embarrassed to participate. middle school is when studies say they are outshined by the boys because girls are embarrassed to be smart. thankfully i wasn't smart so i never had that insecurity. but i digress. I show up and teach one class which was fun, but i was a little nervous and not really sure what to talk about, FYI you should probably prepare when you do one of these things, not talk extemporaneously! then i got into the groove during the 2nd class and then after that, i was utterly exhausted at the start of the 3rd class. i was like "I have to do this again??????????" however, they were my favorite class and asked really smart questions not like "which celebrities do i know." Each class told me funny stories that happened to them and we tried to come up with a t.v. episode based on their ideas, i plan to steal some of these ideas because soem of them were better than what the writing staff comes up with. although a fair amount of them had to do with setting things on fire or blowing things up... ahhh to be a middle school boy again! wait a minute...
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