This would be a better entry if it were Feb. 17
I went and talked to my journalism teacher yesterday to have her go over one of my three articles I have to turn in throughout the class. It was an obituary. I did it on my dad, and she actually said it was really good. She’s a crazy lady, but nice. But she can also be a really hard grader. My first paper I got a 60 but since then I have gotten between 90 and 100 on quizzes and in-class writings. My last one I got a 97, so hopefully I’ll get a good grade on this one because it’s worth more.
So anyway, she really liked it, made a few suggestions, and then commented on how it was sad because it was my dad. I didn’t expect this, because she has a strange sense of humor and is somewhat cynical. At first, I didn’t really know her story, but she told it to us one day in class.
Her husband is paralyzed from the waist down and a couple years ago had both his legs amputated. I figured he was in a car accident because that’s what you think in most cases like this. Little did I know, he was, still is I think, a family court judge in G-town. 12 years ago, someone came to his house and shot at him with 6 bullets. The first one went into his chest, hit a rib, and then hit his spinal cord. The second went into his shoulder as he was falling and hit all his nerves, which was what almost killed him because of all the bleeding. The other four went into the window where his head would have been had not the first two knocked him to the ground.
His wife and two teenage sons were in the house when it happened, and she thought it was fireworks because it was in July. She had never heard a bullet shot before. One of his sons found him. They never caught the guy who did it.
So I think she has a right to be a little cynical and have a weird sense of humor. She says she has to in order to stay sane. She’s actually one of the really cool teachers at G-town. At first, I wasn’t sure, but now I like her. And it really caught me off guard when she said my obit was really sad. But she really liked it and said my dad sounded like a cool guy. She liked some of the funny stories. I’ll post it up here sometime. It’s on my laptop and I’m at work so I can’t put it up now. But I just thought I would share. My dad was a really cool guy, even if I didn’t know him that well.