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@awildremington

I will hurt you for what you have done, and your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth.... This is just my personal blog. Here I'll post anything I find relevant to myself, that I simply find interesting or cool, or I may even post bits of my own writing, advice, and music. I'm a 20 year old gamer and delivery boy living just outside the city of Chicago. I'm a stoner, psychonaut, aspiring musician, as well as a hopeless romantic. My name is Alec Remington Gentry.

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maverlok

So if my students finish a quiz/test early, I ask them to draw me stuff on the back (partly so those who need more time are less self-conscious about still having the test out, partly because fuck yeah, pictures), and it may be the single best decision of my career.

In the past couple of weeks, I’ve told these kids that (a) the Romans believed there were demons in their public toilets and (b) the word for “janitor” comes from “ianitor”, which means “(door) guard”.

So now I’m getting drawings of superhero janitors taking on toilet demons, and it’s so beautiful.

maverlok

Aaaaand today a student showed me a video of himself lighting a fire in his toilet while chanting the conjugation of the word “to be”.

He said he wanted to recreate the ancient toilet demons, and I have concerns.

interrobang-incorporated

K… but why conjugations of to be?

maverlok

My students kept forgetting how to conjugate esse, so I turned it into a rhythmic chant that I had them say over and over. The problem is that when you chant ANYTHING in Latin it sounds like you’re summoning a demon, which they decided was awesome, so uh. Now I’ll just be randomly walking through the hallway and hear voices chanting, “sum es est! sumus estis sunt!”

I’m 99% sure my colleagues think I’ve started a cult.