Minnesota One - Text
INFORMATION PENDING. Contributed by Joseph Papke. Running time 00:04:20
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
Sure, I set my alarm for five, and (uh) I get up and check the internet, ’cause I work in Minneapolis public schools and they have the whole system on the internet. So I get up and I look at the internet and see if there’s anything there that I want, ’cause every single absence for a teacher, or a librarian, or whatever, is up on this website. And so, I go and see if there’s anything there that I want [laughs], ’cause I only get to choose the morning of; that’s one of the conditions of my employment. So (uh)-- so I look through and see if there’s anything appealing, usually high school ’cause that’s what I like better, and if there’s not, I set my alarm for 5:25… maybe, and take a nap. And then I get up again, and go on the website, check it out. And I do that, like, all morning, so I’m very good at napping in the morning. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah! You know, you have classes of kids who see you like a young teacher and they’re excited about that, and so they’re like, oh, they wanna talk to you and know about you, and they’re intelligent and nice to people, and… But most days are challenging, ’cause I mean, even the-- the people who you talk to in regular life, who are really nice, wonderful people, they’re like, “Oh, man, you shoulda seen what I did to our substitute teacher.” [Laughs] Like everyone mistreats the substitute teacher, you know? [Re-reads Comma in thick dialect, through “with a goose waiting for her.”]
UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY JACQUELINE BAKER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR TRANSCRIPTIONS, June 27, 2008