Random Award

Today I got the most random e-mail from a woman who was my 7th grade teacher. She apparently saw the article in the paper about me the other day, went and picked up my book, was halfway through the book and then realized that my name sounded familiar. Then she looked me up in a yearbook and saw that she used to teach me. THEN she e-mailed me to tell me that she is ridiculously random.

How cool is this?

I actually remember this teacher. I liked her a lot. I remember her being very young and very kind. This stood out, because quite frankly, most of my teachers were old and not very nice. Of course by “old” I probably mean they were like 40 (gasp!). And if I actually thought she was young she must have been REALLY young.

Anywho, this teacher was one of many people that contacted me after they read the newspaper article. But she was definitely the most unexpected. And she definitely put the biggest smile on my face.

On another note, I think that the newspaper marks a very clear distinction between my generation and my parents’ generation. And by this I mean my generation doesn’t read the newspaper and my parents’ generation does. Everyone who read the article was of, let’s just say, an older generation. Not OLD necessarily, but not one of my friends contacted me to say they had read the article. They all said, “My mom just called and said you are in the paper.”

This might be something that newspapers should consider a bit alarming. But then again, maybe I just hang out with stupid people and other smart people in my generation are actually reading the paper...that is a very real possibility.