From David Sedaris’s diary, September 9, 1985: “Ted H. is my painting teacher. . . . At the start of class he said that no question was a stupid question. So I raised my hand and asked if we could use part of the room as a smoking section.”
, a guy named Jace. He was O.K. at first, but now he brings in a portable TV and sits at the worktable smoking cigarettes and watching it. He tells customers it might be a twenty-minute wait before he can take their order, and one after another they leave. Last night there were three occupied tables. It was me, a couple, and a heavy man who waited for fifteen minutes before getting up to complain. Later, at the cash register, Jace apologized for taking so long. “Sorry,” he said.
Tonight I remembered that I don’t know anything about point of view, or about anything, really. So far I’ve gotten along O.K., but as the teacher, you’re kind of supposed to be on top of it. My greatest fear is having someone like N. in my class, the editor of the school paper. He writes articles about the nuisance of cigarette smoke and City Hall’s feelings about artists’ spaces. Were he in my class, he could easily point out my inadequacies.
Because there are so many students, it’s easy getting them to talk. One person ate in class, and another said “shit” way too many times. Before they left, I had them each write a few paragraphs explaining to me how they’d lost their feet.
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