Hey, anybody want a $10 phone card? My credit card company sent it to me to apologize for screwing up something with my account, but I've got enough minutes on my cell phone that I don't really have a use for it.

Ooh, I could use that to talk to Andi (Windsparrow).

Anyone ever taught White Fang or Tom Sawyer before? Please, give me a reason to be excited to teach these books.

Uh, with Tom Sawyer, you can play Rush in class?

Uh, with Tom Sawyer, you can play Rush in class?

Dude, that was just SAD.

Ooh, I could use that to talk to Andi (Windsparrow).

Cool. Just email me your address so I can send it.

I thought of that already, and got a big eyeroll from all my vet teacher friends.

I'm drawing a blank, too.

I'm going to tie wolf research into WF. I'd prefer werewolves, but....

Dude, that was just SAD.

I'm trying to be sensitive to the regional context.

Uh, with Tom Sawyer, you can play Rush in class?

Dude, that was just SAD.

I agree. Very weak. I expect better from you, Mr. S.

White Fang is most interesting as the corollary to Call of the Wild. It's the opposite story (half wolf becomes happily domesticated). I remember preferring it.

With Tom Sawyer you're dealing with an American archetype. To me, it's always been interesting that Tom Sawyer started as a popular novel that Twain spunoff into a series of Tom Sawyer potboilers that are pretty cheezy. And yet it also spawned Huckleberry Finn - a genuine masterpiece.

I liked Tom Sawyer as a kid, and so have a soft spot for it, but Huck Finn would be more teachable, I think.

I agree. Very weak. I expect better from you, Mr. S.

You can critique when you expend the ten seconds of energy necessary to go find your own links. Lazybones.