Media Sales and Cannibalism
I'm feeling a little bit better today because I have an interview at the SF Reporter tomorrow for a position doing sales in their classified ad department. I must be miserable if I'm really excited to "get into sales". Although I like everyone I've met at The Reporter and the thought of a steady job with benefits and paid vacation makes my nipples hard. That's # 35 on the list of Things I Thought I'd Never Say.
Today I'm teaching middle school science to behaviorally challenged 7th graders. I gave up on trying to make them do their work and took the opportunity to tell the gaggle of 13 year old boys crowded around my desk about the virtues of a vegetarian lifestyle. They really didn't get it but I didn't care. I was just trying to amuse myself and make the last ten minutes before lunch go by faster. In fact, one of the kids told me that if he could eat humans he would, but chose to refrain because eating another human can "make you sick." I said, "I don't think so Lawrence, there are plenty of perfectly healthy cannibals out there with no digestive issues to speak of. At least not ones related to their dietary choices." He told me that no, you can't eat someone if they have the same blood type as you (meaning A, B, AB, or O) and since you can't always know someone's blood type before you eat them, it's better to just avoid it altogether. I thought that was intelligent reasoning so I let him go two minutes early to lunch.