In high school I had a great computer teacher, Mrs. T, with whom some of you are familiar. I took a few classes with her, knowing that they were essentially free credits requiring essentially no effort, in which I could download stuff using the school's high-speed connection and save it onto Zip disks to take home. I was also her TA, which was more of the same. (I actually don't remember how this worked. I don't recall actually doing the tiniest bit of work for her as a teacher's assistant.) When Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death was released, she let me skip out on my TA period to head to the mall and pick up our two pre-ordered copies of the game, which I then brought back just in time for the subsequent class I had with her, where I tried out the game on the projector screen for the hour. Normally I wouldn't have been allowed to leave the school grounds, but I was a TA with a pass and an important errand for my teacher, so everything was A-OK.
High school was a very enriching time. I only wish that I would have discovered the wonders of classes with Mrs. T before my junior year.
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You don't recall doing the tiniest bit of work for her because "Mrs T." herself really didn't do all that much work, either. And that's what made her an awesome teacher (though technicaly, I should say "awesome person" since I never actually took one of her classes).
Anyway, when you are back in December, would you be interested in visiting "Mrs. T." and other teachers at "LE" with me? It's been 5 years and I've never done that. I think if I don't do it now, the remaining ones will all be retired by the time I return to Lincoln after culinary school. Maybe our mutual friend "Mr. M-D" would be interested in joining us as well. He's coming in tomorrow and staying until December 26th.
I'm trying to link the title to the body of the text. Did Mrs. T die?
I'm sorry, but I have to do this:
"When Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death was released, she let me skip out on my TA period to head to the mall and pick up our two pre-ordered copies of the game"
RTFP, n00b. ;-)
(I thought it was prudent to leave out her actual name so that it can't be found via Google. Anyone who went to high school with me knows exactly who I'm talking about anyway. :)
I visited my old teachers a year ago, and it was mostly kind of awkward. Hanging out with Mrs. T was fun, but visiting most of my other old teachers was just weird. I don't know if I'm excited about doing it again, but perhaps...
And yes, Swid has correctly identified the source of the post title.
Ah, when I parsed that part of the text I filtered out the game title, "When Heros of [eyes skiped to end of title] was released ".
Silly me. I even had to read swid's comment twice, despite it being bold. I have a low interest in computer games.
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