7.12.07


setting: Computer lab. Writer and Professor are alone in a column of computers and are beside each other, consistently glancing at each other's work as everybody else in the class work on their own.

Prof: Can you still read the board?
Writer: Nope. It's blurred.
Prof: Oh poor you.
Writer: yeah. so can you let me copy from your computer?
Prof. you're copying now.
Writer: (laughs) Right. (silence) now what is going on?
Prof: what?
Writer: look at this. something is wrong with this line. i can't see my output!
Prof: (checks) Yup. something is not right.
Writer: hey, why can't i have that webpage? it doesn't appear at all!
Prof: (looks at Writer's computer then back to his) oh-oh. Mine too!
Writer: oh c'mon! why can't i remember anything? (pokes her head hard) i was the one who did our last practical first and then i forgot everything!! how ironic! now what should we do?
Prof: (shrugs) dunno. mine doesn't appear either. you better check again.
Writer: (covers her face with her hands, then grips her hair) what's happening to me? What should I do
...? I forgot... i forgot...
Prof: (turns back to his computer and said straight-faced) Now the real ****** has finally come back.
Writer: (stops short) what? ... (releases her hair) What do you mean? Well, I'm the real ******. what are you talking about?
Prof: Welcome back.
Writer: (looks at Prof quizzically) What do you mean...? I don't understand...
Prof: Don't bother. Just understand it.
Writer: ...?

the computer teacher is now standing behind the Writer. and the Writer asked no more.

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