I like this thread. I'm an English teacher. 
I always try to pay close attention to my grammar and spelling when I post messages to Shasta. I'm afraid she might try to grade me!
I'm sure she's noticed all kinds of grammatical errors in my post, but she's never mentioned any of them.
Did I ever tell you about Miss Swisher, my high school English teacher Shasta? She was very VERY old and quite senile. She aways kept some plants on her windowsill and somebody stuck some marijuana seeds down in there and they started to grow! She watered them every day and to my knowledge she never figured out what they were. Someone must have told her about it though because the following fall when the new school season started, the marijuana was gone.
Her hand writing was really shaky too. It was almost impossible to read anything she wrote on the blackboard. She was very proper and she was pretty strict too. She was always making me sit in the hall for talking during class.
I remember one day she spent the entire period talking about the sound she heard as the rain dripped off some leaves outside her bedroom window. She just kept talking about it and talking about it. For an entire hour! That's pretty difficult for a 15 year old to sit though. lol
But it's really weird, because of ALL the English teachers I had over the years, I remember Miss Swisher the most. So she must have made some sort of impression on me. And I admire her because it couldn't have been easy for an elderly woman to teach a bunch of teenagers all day. She must have had some incredible stamina.
