Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Sub = Wandering Educator

I heard that on a show recently. Thought it was was funny. Hey, I'm not knocking Wandering Educators- I was one for a few months myself.

So now my mom is obsessed with Go Fug Yourself. In fact, when I went over to my parent's house on Sunday, she just had to show me this fugtastic Bjork outfit. If it weren't for Gillian, I would never have discovered the "beauty" that is fug (or my mom, either)! Moshizzle, as she named herself, left a great comment the other day about the fact that 80% of elementary teachers desperately need Stacy and Clinton's help: "No one can rock an ABC appliqued sweater, too short "mom jeans," holiday-themed socks, and reeboks like an elementary teacher!" Speaking of "mom jeans"..... http://www.hulu.com/watch/10333/saturday-night-live-mom-jeans

When I was in 9th grade, we had this long-term sub, I mean, Wandering Educator, named Ms. Choo for science. Now, Ms. Choo was more than a little nutty, and she had the most terrible "mom jeans" EVER- in the full rainbow of colors. Yes, tight at the waist, roomy for those wide hips, and tapered at the ankle (hitting at least 2 inches above her Keds) in bright magenta and teal and canary yellow. Yes, I remember- who could forget?? One day in computers, I made this great fake advertisement for "Choo Jeans" (and this was WAY before SNL made their fake ad!). Poor Ms. Choo. Why are junior high kids such assholes? She was replaced after a couple of weeks... by another Wandering Educator.

5 comments:

Gillian said...

Y'know, one perk of being at middle school is the general lack of thematic Elementary-wear...and because it's waaay more casual, the dress is way less outrageous. And no, I don't consider Mr. Iknoweverythingandyoudon't's wardrobe to be outrageous...just trite.

Amy said...

Trite. What an excellent word to describe Mr. Iknoweverythingandyoudon't's wardrobe. In fact, last year during Spirit Week (which I ashamedly live for) I was going to dress as "said Mr." until the powers that be switched the "Dress Like A Teacher Day" into something else. And I know why they changed it....

Gillian said...

And I really would have liked to see what the kids could do with that...or at the very least who'd dye themselves purple....

Amy said...

Omg! How did you know? :o)
That's why they changed the day... because Mrs. H***** got word that someone was going to paint themselves purple. The ironic thing is that I don't think any kid would have actually gone to the trouble of doing that... it was probably just a threat/stupid idea.

Briola da Sheep said...

Choo jeans! What a brilliant reference. Nice blog, Weeze. :) Gosh, we were horrible to that poor woman -- although, shitty educators get what they deserve, eh??