LESSONS IN COOL

My students think I am lame. I know that because they tell me so. I had a student last quarter shake his head in pity and ask honestly, “Do ever you do anything fun?” I’m thinking, what do you mean? I’m young, I’m hip. Look at these Converse tenny shoes! Look at my crazy tattoo. Then I go back to my office, sit down at my desk and open the drawer to a bag of organic prunes starring back at me as if to say, “You fool nobody.”