I’m a very.bad.girl.
So I’m in this discussion class and part of being in a discussion class is that everyone is supposed to sit in a circle. The circle. There is a lady in my class who NEVER sits in the circle. That bothers me to no end. She usually comes in late and there is always a desk-in the circle-that is close to the door that she could sit in. But does she sit in it? Noooo. She pulls up a different desk and sits outside the circle, usually not even facing the circle. So I think, “What is her problem? What is so hard about sitting in the circle?” Sometimes she just pulls the desk out of the circle. Ugh.
So yesterday I sat in the desk by the door and I put my backpack in the other desk by the door that was not in the circle. There were open desks in the circle. I’m feelin’ pretty proud that I was going to “encourage” this lady to sit in the circle. So she walks in, has to walk across the room to the other side of the circle. Where did she sit? She sat in the desk BEHIND the circle! She still did not sit in the circle. And me? I felt horrible. As I should.
(you can close your mouth now)
Someone slap my wrist.
I know she doesn’t want to disrupt when she comes in late, but doesn’t she know how much it bothers me that she doesn’t sit in the circle? See, this is that whole part about me not being mature enough to turn thirty yet. I can’t believe I did that. I’m not going to do it again and maybe I’ll do some sort of invisible retribution like make a desk accessible to her when she comes in late, but make sure it isn’t in the circle just like she likes. Then maybe I’ll massage her feet cause she’s coming to class late because she has been at work all day. Then maybe I’ll invite her over for dinner. Then maybe I’ll see if she wants to sit in a circle and sing songs.
But seriously, just sit in the ding dang circle!
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I think it’s pretty funny… Your quiet “encouragement”.
Maybe she’s uncomfortable engaging the universe? Does she join in the discussions? For someone like me (who behaves like every teacher exists to teach me personally and the rest of the students are more like our audience) it does seem to be a little odd.
I’m glad that you did it.
We all need a little push sometimes.
I wish that I had been a fly on the wall…
She only talks when she is leading discussion. From outside the circle. I don’t talk much in that class (too busy trying to stay awake), but I still sit in the circle. Engaging the universe? She’s throwing off my universe, my world order. My circle paradigm is shaken…This whole situation is like kryptonite to me.
Maybe the next class discussion topic should be, “So…why doesn’t so-and-so sit in the circle? Anyone have theories? Ideas?” Maybe she’ll chime in then.
-bm
I found you blog through Raquel(aka ghetto quilter) and I laughed so hard! Sometimes we need…”pushes” to be interact with others. Great blog! I’m having fun reading…..