Just A Fangirl's World

1) We don’t want to talk to you.

2) We don’t want to pause our music to talk to you.

3) We don’t even talk to each other on the phone — why would we want to talk to you?

But the biggest reason is A TRAIL. If I e-mail you back, you can see what was said in the future. You can’t tell me I forgot to tell you something because it’s right there. You can’t tell me I “never reached out” because we can both SEE it. I don’t have to trust your recollection.

And, in a group inbox, you can see who has been responded to. I got forwarded a voicemail from my supervisor (through e-mail! imagine that!) asking me to call some lady back for clarification. So I did, against my will of course…and she said somebody had called her yesterday.

Who? When? What did y’all talk about? Is follow-up necessary?

Phone calls back and forth only work in a workflow where the standard procedure is to *log* phone calls in a shared system with a brief summary of what was discussed. Otherwise, y’all need to let us e-mail. It’s not just about a generation gap. It’s also about efficiency.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. Any feedback can be proffered via e-mail.

EDIT

LOOK AT WHAT HE JUST WENT THROUGH

HE ALMOST LOST HIS DEAR FRIEND 

HIS FRIEND WHO JUST SAVED HIS LIFE

AND RISKED EVERYTHING AND PRACTICALLY SINGLE HANDEDLY DEFEATED THE HUNS

AND NOW THE LAW SAYS HE HAS TO KILL THIS AMAZING PERSON

THE LAW HE WAS RAISED BY A MILITARY FAMILY AND SOCIETY TO HONOR AND RESPECT

THE LAW HE, AS A CAPTAIN OF THE ARMY, HAS PROMISED TO LIVE BY

AND IT IS SO INGRAINED IN HIM TO FOLLOW THAT LAW AND THE PUNISHMENT THAT COULD FOLLOW HIM REFUSING TO OBEY COULD BE SERIOUS

HE KNOWS WHAT HE HAS TO DO BUT THIS ISN’T JUST ANY SOLDIER, IT’S HIS FRIEND, HIS HERO

HIS FRIEND, WHOM HE THOUGHT HE KNEW, WHOM HE TRUSTED WITH HIS LIFE, HE JUST FOUND OUT HAS BEEN LYING TO HIM THE ENTIRE TIME

HE’S NOT WHO HE SAID HE WAS, HE’S NOT EVEN A HE, AND HE DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO TRUST THIS PERSON ANYMORE

IT’S STUPID, BUT HE’S CONFLICTED, AND IT HURTS

AND YOU KNOW WHAT

YOU KNOW WHAT

DO YOU EVEN SEE THE LOOK ON HIS FACE IN THE SECOND GIF

HIS DAD JUST DIED

HIS FATHER DIED YESTERDAY

IN A BATTLE HE COULDN’T EVEN GET TO SOON ENOUGH TO HELP

THEN MULAN TELLS HIM JUST WHY SHE ENTERED THE WAR

TO SAVE HER DAD FROM DYING THE SAME WAY HIS DID

AND YOU CAN SEE THAT IN HIS FACE, HOW MUCH THAT GETS TO HIM

HE IS SO CONFLICTED OVER A MILLION THINGS HERE

DO YOU HONESTLY THINK A GAY SCARE WAS THE ONLY THING GOING THROUGH HIS MIND RIGHT NOW

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My fourth grade teacher thought it was wrong for my dad to be teaching me complex math because it fascinated me.

My elementary school music teacher hated the way my piano teacher taught me, and how I was more advanced than many of her students, and so told me, in front of my peers and my mother, that I was not good enough to participate in the state solo festival. She would not give me the form. We had to procure it from the district instead. She also hated how I excelled at reading and playing music for the recorder, and so she refused to give me my “belts” (colored beads to signify our level) and humiliated me in front of the class repeatedly.

My eighth grade algebra teacher used to fail me on take home tests because I didn’t solve problems exactly the way she showed us in class; I used methods that we had learned for other types of problems that also applied to these. She took points off my tests because I didn’t bring a calculator even though I got 100% without it, because I was able to do it by hand. I had to call my father, who is an engineer, down to the school to shout her down and give me back my A in the class.

My 10th grade Spanish teacher yelled at me in front of the class numerous times because she didn’t like the way I took notes; she thought that since I didn’t write every word off the slide, I wasn’t getting it all down. I had to explain to her that people who have taken advanced courses, like AP or IB classes, know that in a fast-paced learning environment you need to take quick shorthand notes that contain the necessary information rather than wasting time writing every word. She almost gave me detention.

My 11th grade English teacher gave me a poor mark on my first short essay because she believed that I was looking up unnecessarily complex words in a thesaurus to try and get better marks. The phrases in question: “laced with expletives” and “bombarded”. She wouldn’t hear any defense from me.

My 11th grade history teacher failed me on an essay about the 1950s because I misread the prompt. Except the prompt wasn’t words; it was a political cartoon. One of the figures was clearly president Eisenhower, but the other I couldn’t place. My teacher would not tell us who it was. I labelled him as the governor of Little Rock Arkansas during the integration period, and wrote an essay about that subject. My teacher said that no, it was Joseph McCarthy, and that there was a small picture of the man in our textbook and therefore I should have recognized him instantly. Half the class, apparently, did not.

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