OK!...OK! Yingwen and Lord Duke Raoul Ill admit that you have me by the short hair. With MY record of submissions to the ESL Teachers Board, I am probably the least eligible to oppose emotionalism on any level! Also, I needed you to remind me of the TRUE purpose of this forum, albeit for a while there I was deluding myself into considering it something more than the highly effective sounding board for complaints that it has always been. Mea culpa! Mea culpa! Please TRY to view my temporary deviation from reality as, perhaps, the result of an overdose of Viagra, or my having reached a new port on that dreaded Slow Boat to Alzheimersville. Whatever the case, it doesnt make me any the less your TEFL colleague and veteran bearing my own negative and positive impressions after roughly 20 years spent in our profession. And talk about emotion HA! Each day I peer into the mirror and cry not only for the angry, fat m***er-f***er on the the other end, but for my son in Iraq, for my beloved country which is being so mishandled by its sworn leaders, for the victims of the Indonesian earthquake and, of course, for what appears to be an incurable state of corruption in our chosen profession. In view of such turmoil, I reckon these days one cant help being emotional. Moreover, letting off steam is most essential, if only for the preservation of ones sanity. So, guys
lets do ityou with your variations, me with mineall for The Cause: the improvement of TEFL everywhere! Amen.

Your friend,

The Arrogant One