Link: Enough With It!.
Me: “Well, here we all are on the first day of class! Let’s just go around the room and introduce ourselves. Tanya, why don’t you start?”
Tanya, a self-assured brunette with straightened diagonal bangs, a vintage Pucci minidress, and oblong glasses, (((Okay, the essayist had me right there))) clears her throat and says, “Hi. Well, I’m Tanya, and I went to X University and majored in Y, and then I spent three years at Microsoft as a designer in the blah-blah group, and my passion is…”
All the second-years sit back and smile triumphantly. “Excuse me, Tanya,” I say, mouth in a frozen grin, “but I must say a little something about the word passion, and I must say it now, before I burst into spontaneous flame....
