Incorrigible crossword puzzler.
I have this girl in one of my classes who always has kind of a sour, contemptuous look on her face. It makes a bad impression on me, and I’ve been trying to stay neutral toward her, to just think that maybe that’s just the way she looks. Well, yesterday she kept doing a crossword puzzle in class. I asked her to put the paper away before class, then I asked her the same thing later, and finally I took it away from her in front of everybody. I also criticized her and another student’s behavior (she was talking to another student, who also had a newspaper page), telling them as doctoral students they should surely know how to behave, and I was especially embarrassed because we had a student sitting in from another class that day, who saw them behave so disrespectfully. The most ironic thing about this is that the student is a high school teacher! Would she let her students do crossword puzzles in class? Maybe she would; I don’t really know. She made me really angry, though.