So, what the heck
have I been up to?
Six months of intense
and hellish training to be a prison guard to the young folks, that’s what: I
was in the bowels of the edjoomakashun system, lorded over by a series of
Dolores Umbridges—which thankfully in the long run, I was rejected for—
“Let’s use brutal, militaristic
techniques to keep the young’uns in line, to make them good little worker bees—oh,
there’s no jobs and poverty creates a toxic stress environment as well as cycle
of defeat? Not to mention the learned helplessness where folks say, ‘Why bother
to try and improve when the dice are loaded, the cards marked and the game is rigged right from the start?’ Well that’s not our problem….”
Basically it was like
dealing with the students of Mao’s Cultural Revolution: Obey or die!
Here’s the thing:
these Umbridges claim to “love the children,” but I believe they only do so in
the most abstract way….
But I’ve burned
enough bridges already…
One day I will go
into further detail—but today is not that day—today is September 1, and
it’s the start of the final quarter of 2014, and it’s a new page in my life.
Getting my ducks in a
row, looking forward, and NEVER giving up. The only way you’re going to stop me
is by chopping off my head—and then you better watch out: the Gypsy said if
that happens, my right hand with come after you…and avenge me.
Now, onto the movie
reviews! (Most of which will be very short; I just wanna get this one out of
the way—break the silence, and get back on track…)
