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	who, me, teach?
	I am starting to think that perhaps I rushed into my decision to go for smicha. I am starting to think that, after all is said and done, I just want to TEACH. Like, teach English, teach French, teach the children of today who will become educated and literate and cultured, G-d willing, with a little help from me, a teacher. Am I losing it? Or am I only now starting to see things more clearly? Gee bee. feeling: : confused

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	From: batshua	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 08:32 (UTC)		(Lien)

Uhm.

I don't see how a smicha is a waste. Especially if you're learning lishma.

Plus, I'd get a kick out of calling you Rabbi Gordon.

But that's just me.

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	From: gordond	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 08:39 (UTC)		(Lien)

yes, but I'm also miserable, and I think part of the reason is that I want to be working, doing things, as in, now. Lots of people have told me that I can get my smicha over time, not to necessarily go full time but to learn while I am working, so that I don't spend the next four years learning and having no real parnassa and a-fricking-lone, etc. gee bee. I still would learn lishma, but while having a solid, stable parnassa.

Maybe it wouldn't be teaching. Maybe doing something in the computer field, or something like that. Believe it or not, despite the fact that I seem incompetent on the computer, I'm pretty good. Tee hee.

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	From: batshua	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 08:41 (UTC)		(Lien)

Oh!

Well, I like that idea, too.

Whatever makes you happy, dear.

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	From: gordond	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 08:44 (UTC)		(Lien)

not having long arguments with my mom in which she says that i am incapable of staying with anything for longer than six months and realizing that she is right but basically wanting to do something to support myself while the world realizes that i am an okay writer and worthy of at least one bestseller in this lifetime and possibly a multimillion dollar movie deal which would lead me to make a modern orthodox yeshiva for baalei teshuvot in manhattan, now that would make me happy.

that, and your being happy, makes me happy.

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	From: batshua	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 08:47 (UTC)		(Lien)

Well, it's nice to know I'm second on the list. :p

P.S. Stay tuned for an LJ post from me coming to a browser near you!

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	From: gordond	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 08:50 (UTC)		(Lien)

i'd like to browse something.

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	From: batshua	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 08:51 (UTC)		(Lien)

I almost died laughing because of the way that showed up in the email.

"Their reply was:

i'd like to browse something.

From here, you can:

• View the thread starting from this comment
• View all comments to this entry
• Reply at the webpage
• Delete the comment"

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	From: gordond	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 08:54 (UTC)		(Lien)

it's good to live, while laughing.

or something.

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	From: batshua	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 09:08 (UTC)		(Lien)

And you're part of the network that makes that possible.

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	From: jeanrhys	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 08:54 (UTC)		(Lien)

Well, I'm probably the world's worst advisor on things spiritual no matter what creed, but let me tell you, teaching is great. It has a lot to do with me still pursuing the PhD, and although I curse and moan about preparing my class a lot (well, I complain about almost everything I do, to be honest), I actually love talking and discussing literature in my class and sometimes see a glimmer of interest in those big undergrad eyes. I suppose it makes me feel as if I actually do something worthwhile (and worth the ridiculous amount of money I earn), a feeling you don't always have in the humanities.

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	From: gordond	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 08:56 (UTC)		(Lien)

oh, hermione, you know me well.

now have that twenty-four inches about the history of hippogriff beak shapes to me in the morning, or I will have to put someone in detention.

yes, i'm still reading the new hp.

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	From: jeanrhys	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 09:26 (UTC)		(Lien)

hah, i just finished about thirty inches on london in modernist literature, which i'm going to present on saturday.
so, i'm actually going to london on thursday and i will go to diagon alley and i'll get myself an owl! wait, no, i'm going to spend the weekend in a stuffy college listening to stuffy papers...

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	From: gordond	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 09:51 (UTC)		(Lien)

i wish i had papers that spoke. tee hee.

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	From: jeanrhys	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 09:58 (UTC)		(Lien)

hee hee, i wish my paper could speak for itself. i spent hours trying to imagine all the mean questions people might ask me.

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	From: gordond	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 09:59 (UTC)		(Lien)

just imagine a stack of paper by a microphone talking about itself.

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	From: jeanrhys	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 10:01 (UTC)		(Lien)

my boss said the other day to a late comer in class: "there a three handouts wandering around". papers can do a lot of things, it seems.

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	From: gordond	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 10:04 (UTC)		(Lien)

i see comic genius potential.

er, comic strips.

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	From: jeanrhys	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 10:19 (UTC)		(Lien)

PAPERMAN!

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	From: gordond	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 10:50 (UTC)		(Lien)

you got it. written and directed by

gordond and

jeanrhys

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	From: jeanrhys	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 11:28 (UTC)		(Lien)

hah, we are going to be rich and famous! i'm also working on a soap about an english department right now, but this is mostly for therapeutic reasons.

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	From: gordond	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 11:34 (UTC)		(Lien)

with cafepress t-shirts.

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	From: jeanrhys	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 15:07 (UTC)		(Lien)

merchandising rocks!

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	From: gordond	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 15:09 (UTC)		(Lien)

okay, now then - which one of us can draw?

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	From: jeanrhys	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 15:20 (UTC)		(Lien)

not me, i'm afraid :(

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	From: gordond	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 20:09 (UTC)		(Lien)

are you sure?

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	From: morarachel	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 16:00 (UTC)		(Lien)

Teaching is the most amazing thing a person can do. And Gd knows we need good 4th grade Rebbes out there.
I say go for it and no you are not soft. I was a first grade teacher to Israeli kids......if I can do it ANYONE can do it.
You rock I know you will do the right thing.

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From: wickedsophie	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 16:43 (UTC)		(Lien)

Good luck in whatever you decide to do. I think, maybe you're starting to see things more clearly. From what very little I know of you, I think you'd be great with children. :)

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	From: gordond	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 19:48 (UTC)		(Lien)

thank you ever much! but I might end up doing something else, or what not. but definitely not the rabbi thing.

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	From: goodyproctor	Date: le 22 juillet 2003 19:38 (UTC)		(Lien)

you can teach with me at whatever school i'm at. on your first day walk to the theatre dept. and say hi.

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