Venting (or: Why Don't You Just Shove It Right Where The Sun Doesn't Shine?)

Women are utterly incomprehensible. Women date the biggest jackasses ever, for inexplicable reasons. And then, add'em on Facebook. 

Ok, from the top: the only thing I had to do this morning was teach my 7 o'clock class, and then come back home. Well, I woke up at 6 and went out in the cold rain (not that I mind the rain, I actually like it - but it's still kind of a nuisance, having to go to work in such a weather). I got there, punctually at 5 to 7.

7:05...7:10...7:15...7:20...7:40.

No one showed up. 

I went back home literally fuming. And I immediately wrote my little story on my Facebook status. With cursing and all (well, by cursing I mean @#$%$#*&%$!$...).

A couple of friends expressed their sympathy towards my frustration. And then I saw someone else had commented on my status: this guy I'd dated eons ago (okay, 4 years ago, but, thank god, it feels much more than that! The guy's a complete jerk).

His comment: "Who told you to go and be just a teacher?..."

Now, I'm not sure if the translation does it justice... though I always write in English on my Facebook (for I have friends abroad), his comment was in Portuguese. And in our language, when we want to belittle something, we use the diminutive. And that's exactly what he did: he applied the diminutive suffix to the word "teacher". His comment was clearly deprecating. For him, apparently anyone can be an English teacher, it's easy like that.

Well: go. f***. yourself.

Even back when we were dating (and I didn't know any better), he was always making these kind of comments: "I've no idea how u can stand being just a teacher"; "Why are u wasting your time planning ur class? There's nothing to it!"; "Pfff, c'mon, anyone can do what you do!"; "I bet I could teach a class just as well as you do!"; "Any beggar can be an English teacher!"

Damn it! I studied for that! I had boring grammar classes after boring grammar classes at college! (We have to be fluent in English already when we get to college, so that we can learn how to teach it). Didactic classes; Latin, Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English classes - even a little German, for a better understanding of the history of the language; I read Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Dickens, Joyce, Wilde, Virgina Woolf, and a whole bunch of others in order to get a diploma enabling me to teach the goddamn subject! And where I work, I usually get the advanced students - because I'm that good a teacher. So don't, don't come to me with this crap, saying anyone can do what I do. 

I chose to be a teacher because I like it. And this profession is extremely important, how dare anyone diminish it like that? And if it weren't for English teachers, the jerk wouldn't even have been able to read and understand my status. (I've blocked him on my Facebook already, btw).

Jackass. Hope some angry god ties you to the top of a mountain for an eagle to eat your liver everyday, and that your liver grows back again over night just so the eagle can continue feeding on it. Jerk.

Wow, that was really liberating! I feel much better already!