What I want to be is a high school English teacher. Teaching writing/composition would be okay, but I think I'd really enjoy teaching literature. Now I'm going to make a list of the books that I would want to include in my classes:

1. Notes From Underground
2. On The Road
3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
4. Ham On Rye
5. Why Are We In Vietnam?
6. Sometimes A Great Notion

That's a good group with which to start. I think I'll also read some of Bukowski's poems in class, and I will demand that everyone bring in a book of their own to read a chapter from. You have to let the kids run the show a bit, or else they'll throw paper clips at you and call you Mr. Baldy McAsshole. Can't have that. Those little fuckers.

- posted by seanmh @ 12:06 PM