Wildly Crafty

Schooled by Anisha Lakhani

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
A recent graduate from Columbia University, Anna Taggert decides that her life's goal is to become a teacher. Over her parent's objections she takes a job teaching English at an elite private school on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Here she learns that teaching is not all "Lean on Me" and "Stand and Deliver", in fact actual work and assignments are frowned upon. The more Anna tries to make lesson plans and actually teach, the more unfriendly phone calls she gets from parents. Discouraged by her small apartment and even smaller salary Anna begins to despair, until she receives the a phone call that turns her life around. So Anna becomes a tutor, and spends her ever diminishing free time shopping at Barney's, taking on more and more tutoring assignments so that she can live the lifestyle she thinks she deserves. Ironically it is a tutoring assignment with a new student that shows her the error of her ways, and the last few chapters of the book reflect on Anna's desire to become the teacher she has always dreamed of being.

Schooled is a debut novel by an author who has lived the world she is writing about. Anisha Lakhani was an English teacher at the prestigious Dalton School in Manhattan. One has to wonder just how much of this novel is actually true, and if so, it reflects poorly on the educational system for allowing and encouraging such shenanigans to go on.

I enjoyed this book, and was fascinated by just how quickly the main character allowed herself to be corrupted. A quick summer read along the lines of The Devil Wears Prada or The Nanny Diaries.

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On one of the World of Warcraft boards I frequent someone posted this rant earlier:

I decided to start up a bank guild on my baby warlock.  So I wander around Elwynn, advertising in general and outright offering the occasional guildless individual a gold apiece for their signatures.

Finally, I'm down to my last sig (which took some doing).  I see this unaffiliated level 13 (hereafter "Snot") just standing there by the mailbox in Goldshire, and decide to ask her.  And this happens (note that these are quoted verbatim):
[Me]:  Hi.  Would you like to earn a gold?
[Snot]: Piss off!

WTF?

 So I call her an idiot.  Then, the idea of shaming her crosses my mind (not that people like that don't often lack any sense of shame).  So I announce in Elwynn Forest chat:  "Snot is a rude idiot.  Offer her money, and she'll tell you to piss off!"

No response from anyone.  I /ignore Snot and say the hell with it.

I make a deal with a guy doing the same thing for that last sig.  Then I register the charter and get on my warrior to sign his.  Since I have to go through Goldshire to get to him anyway, I consider that I might just do a /spit on Snot while I'm there.  (Yes, petty...but she earned it.)

By the time I get to Goldshire, no sign of her anyway, so I shrug it off.  I send some money to my 'lock from other alts, and sign back onto her.  And this message pops up:  "Ignore removed because the character no longer exists." 

There was no one except Snot on my warlock's ignore list.  I've got a few ideas as to what might have happened.  But one way or the other...good riddance.

Note:  Since people seem to have missed this, I did not actually do the /spit.  By the time I went through Goldshire on my warrior, Snot was already gone, and I was reconsidering.

Some of the other board members called the OP out on their behavior and pointed out that the OP was just as rude if not ruder than the person that they've dubbed snot.  This fell on deaf ears, and the OP kept defending their choices, editing their post and finally got so mad they took all their toys home and deleted it.

Way to get all butt hurt and upset because someone was rude to you in an online video game.   The irony was that the OP titled their post "Reasons for Single Player Games".  My comment pointed out that the OP should grow a thicker skin or go back to playing a single player game themselves.