Pakurat

My friend Cora, an educator, poet, literary performer and bon vivant, was reading this blog the other day and had left a comment:

Salamat!!! Nalingaw ko og basa! I also noticed that u mention Jacques Derrida's Le Difference. That is really exciting! It's one of my favorite discourses on Deconstruction by the same intellectual!!! Hope to read more here in ur blog!

I blinked twice after reading that. Did she mean Leoncio Deriada? It wouldn't have surprised me if she did, as I have happy memories of the old teacher we are so fond of, well, except when he was asleep ...

But, no, Cora said Jacques Derrida, and I'm thinking, who da heck is Jacques Derrida? And I wouldn't know the difference between deconstruction and boa constriction if it swallowed me whole. You see, I never had any formal education for the things that I eventually did to earn a living for myself. Never went to school for writing, html design or even I.T. project management (ooops, there goes my headhunter out the door). All of that I learned hands-on, and from the most exacting--if not the best, at least in my opinion--employers. The only thing I ever studied for was something I never actually became: a teacher.

And that perhaps is my greatest frustration.