an essay is born

wow - just had a cool moment that i wanted to get down before i start asserting the full volume of my bitchery again:

i read a really strange introduction at the beginning of an essay i assigned to them, and totally couldn't piece it together (honestly, it is poetic how cumbersome this kid's syntax is - like you couldn't put words together like that if you wanted to) and then i read it to pete and he kind of parsed it out and suddenly, it totally made sense, and was actually a really thorough attempt at beginning the essay with an anecdote. and the rest of the essay, right down to the last sentence, was not quite right on, but i could tell that he had picked up on the elegance of the essay structure and had started to assert an idea he had truly considered. it was like AN ESSAY WAS BORN TODAY folks, like i actually saw some of this shit COMING TOGETHER.

and what i realized after that was that THAT was why i even started doing this job - because i fell in love with being able to lay my ideas out like a person might build a house.