June 3, 2004

  • me and my ballers.


    i'm so proud of them.  one started typing up his paper and has more than half of it written.   another had started his introduction--finally--and began the body of his paper today.  another one, who was in LA from Thursday to Tuesday, has started writing, as well.  they can talk the papers, it's just getting the talk organized and written down and all MLA-ed up.  this seems to be one of their favorite phrases--not to me, of course, oh hell no:  "man, shut your bitch ass up," and it's variant, "man, shut your hoe ass up."  when do they say it?  whenever another one of them starts to talk.  as in, ballah 1: "hey crystal, can you help with this--"; ballah 2 cuts in: "man, shut your bitch as up."   or ballah 3: "crystal, how do you spell --"; ballah cuts in  2: "man, shut your hoe ass up."  before we left ballah 1 says, "Watch when Crystal goes home someone's gonna say something and she's gonna say 'Man, shut your hoe ass up."  and i'm like, "i already say that."


    at first, i must admit that i was a little intimidated after talking to Dr. Hill and seeing the paper topics.  the first day of tutoring was whack because only one of them was there.  tuesday was disappointing because the one that went to LA wasn't back yet and the one who's usually late hadn't read like he said he would.  wednesday was better, especially because Dr. Hill extended the due date of the paper from tomorrow to next week.  it was intimidating watching ballah 2 walk up to the library--since i hadn't met him yet--and he was just so freakin' tall and big.  ballah 3 is superfreaking tall, too and it was weird walking around with him that first day.  ballah 1 was the MVP and he's a slacker.  did i mention that these boys are being scouted and that this fall is their senior year? 


    today was great because they were all writing and talking about the books, even with their "man, shut the fuck up"'s and "shut your hoe ass up";s and shut your bitch ass up"'s.  hopefully tomorrow will be just as productive and they'll actually make use of the time over the weekend.