It’s that time of year. . .
Snarky In The Suburbs has inspired me many times, and never more than with her divine end-of-year awards to all of the special lovelies that infest grace her favorite suburban institution.
Of course, urban schools do some damned honoring of their own, thank you very much; so how you feelin’? I don’t understand that either. My students recently began to use that expression, “So how you feelin?'” to follow up some razor witty jab like, “Really? Say it to my face. That’s what I thought. So how you feelin’?” I rank it up there with the thinking man’s retort: “Duh” — also a popular morsel of repartee that is parleyed about within the walls of my language-rich classroom environment.
I asked Seth McFarlane to host this year, but Mr. McRudeface has not returned my emails. So I went ahead and asked my room mother to do it! Remember the Room…
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