me: what should the first sentence of a letter of recommendation be
“i’m writing to you to heartily recommend X for Y?”
Ellie: i usually say something about how i know the person
like i tell a little story
“I first met Karen Untereker in September, 2001, when she walked into my dorm looking needy”
me: omigosh ellie
that is not how we met
i was trying to get into the dorm
and you lent me your ID
you were wearing green shorts
Ellie: “I first met Karen Untereker when she borrowed my ID card to get into our dorm. It was the beginning of a long and lopsided friendship”
that kind of thing
i was not wearing green shorts
me: “I first met Ellie when she let me into our dorm early in the morning; I was under the (later mistaken) impression she was really on top of things”
Ellie: i don’t own green shorts
me: you were wearing green shorts with white trim
like athletic shorts
Ellie: “my first impression of her was spot on. she is the most organized, most generous person i have ever had the pleasure of knowing”
i don’t think those were mine
i probably stole them from alice
me: ew, who borrows shorts from someone else their first week of college?
what a creep-o
Ellie: first day of college!
look at the email i just got from a student
this is not a joke
“Today i found out I am going to be missing english tomoro for an orthidontist apointment. We have already changed the date of my apointment several times so tomoro i have to go. Please let me know what you want me to do with my canyon story since I will be missing peer editing.”
me: oh god
ellie
he doesn’t spell that way
fyi, that’s why i can’t be a teacher
i would die
Tagged: AWESOME, College, Ellie, Idiots, Worst Jobs in the World
