Prior to my incarnation as a semi-lucid writer, I spent about a decade teaching all of the kids who mysteriously disappeared from the public schools. These were the meth kids, the tweakers , and those who fancied a whole bowl of pot before class. The vast majority of them were affiliated with one gang or another, many had a history of gouge your eyes out violence. I taught everything from 2nd grade reading to college physics every day and it was grand. I moved from there to ph more...