[Boomer]

Dear Mr. Tony, Mr. Admin, Sir:

Here we go again, I see. You are back to besmirching English majors. And not only is it a general, all-around besmirching of English majors, but you are cranking it up a notch now and besmirching English teachers.

Ohhhhhh, how I have tried and tried to make others see the difficulty that comes with being an English major. (Not that I am one, you realize.) But I do try to help English majors to be better understood. I guess you could say it is my cause.

Example: Not too long ago here on TOTV, chuckinca was telling us about Mrs. Traphagen his high school English teacher and how she scarred him deeply (or was it scared him deeply?) causing him to flunk her class. (Yeah. Right. I suspect that Chuck never did get around to turning in that two-page essay on Silas Marner.)

Anyway, I tried to help chuckinca get past it by telling him a little story to show that Mrs. Traphagen was surely a misunderstood woman who perhaps, like my friend who is also an English teacher, had to hang around in bars, telling lies about the kind of work she did. And I have been forced to tell that same story here on TOTV two other times, too.

So Mr. Tony, are you going to make me go find that story AGAIN and put it here for you to read? I use it to try to give people like you and chuckinca a little insight into the difficult lives English teachers must face every day -- and night. But (sigh) I do not think the story has been helping. I might as well hit guys like you with Sonnets from the Portuguese for all the good trying to explain this stuff does. (Sigh. Sigh. Sigh.)

I must think about this for a while…..

Sincerely,
Ms. Boomer B. Boomer the Besmirched