another reason to love myspace

So of course my more intrepid students, the ones who have my email address for sending me late work (sigh) have found me on Myspace. After some thought and the realization that I'm already caught and there's not much to do about it now, I changed my graduation dates and age (I'm now 43) and accepted the first friend request, from a rather squirrely senior who, for unfathomable reasons, I'm really very fond of. When you accept someone as a friend, all their recent bulletin posts come up on your listing, so I randomly opened one titled "important."

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people please call this number and tell that lady shit about spain pleasees (xxx)xxx-xxxx

I'm barely finished reading this before I'm on my feet looking for my cell phone, as I'm remembering my student's long-standing adversarial relationship with the college counselor/CALA co-chair, who is the only Spanish person both he and I know. Sure enough, the numbers match. Now, I pause. What do you do with something like this? Are people actually calling? Do I let it go? Oh, to hell with it.

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Of course you realize that by adding your teachers as friends, they will have access to posts like this one, and that you will have to think seriously about the effects of those posts...
Shouldn't you be doing something with your last few weeks of vacation? Hiking? Throwing parties? Reading a book?
-Ms. L

I love my job.