Today I heard a student complaining that it's not her fault she drinks so much--she can't help it if there's "nothing to do here but drink."
Whenever I hear that complaint, I'm tempted to hand over a list of things a student could do instead of drink. Homework, for instance, or pulling the weeds from the flower beds behind the rec center. But I suspect that the student really wants to do something that will help her forget the fact that she's in the weeds vis-a-vis homework. If it's oblivion she's after, then drinking is one way to find it.
But what if she seeks an activity that does not necessarily result in oblivion? I recommend a portable Scrabble board. A student with a Scrabble board is never at a loss for something to do.
Not that anyone asked.
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Or she could ... dare I suggest it ... read a book. I learned two great new words while reading Ex Libris this week: concatenations and claudications. They're a little long for scrabble, but great words nonetheless.
p.s. Have you clicked on the little wheelchair symbol next to the word verification? Yeah, it didn't clear anything up at all!
I despise Scrabble. My older brother has a photographic memory, so he memorized the Scrabble dictionary when he was about nine. After losing dozens of challenges, I gave up and he felt free to make up his own words.
Scarred, I tell you . . .
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