Zoey Lieberman | Staff Reporter
Alex Edidin | Staff Reporter
Photo courtesy Whitney Stubbs
Whitney Stubbs
CoA:Do you have an awkward first date story?
(Mr. Newton walks in, looking for his breakfast sandwich)
Stubbs: “Hey, they’re interviewing me right now, but here is your breakfast sandwich.”
MN: “Are we recording? What are we talking about?”
WS: “Nothing! [laughs] Bye!”
CoA: “That was so ironic!”
WS: “When I was in high school, I was dating this awful guy named Wade. My father hated him, and there wasn’t anything to like about him so I just liked him because my father hated him […] but he got me a puppy for my birthday which was a totally inappropriate gift. It was like a black lab mix and she was really cute, and her name was Maggie. You know how some dogs get really excited when you pet them, like shaking and rolling around on their back? Maggie did that, and while she was rolling over on her back, she decided to pee on herself! This poor dog, she chewed up everything, and was this nervous little bundle of love. My family was like, ‘What are we going to do with this dog?’ and we kept her and eventually she moved out to my grandparents’ farm where she could run and play. But I was still like, ‘Why would you ever get me a dog?’ What were you thinking.”
CoA: “What was the funniest moment of your teaching career?”
WS: “Oh my god.. Oh god […] It would have to be something from C block last year. You must have been there for it.”
CoA: “There were quite a few?”
WS: “I can’t even isolate one moment from last year that was exceptionally funny. Having the C block boys burst into song was pretty funny. I would just say C block of 2013-2014 was probably the funniest [year] of my teaching career.”
CoA: “Do you have any pet peeves?”
WS: “Grammatical mistakes. Especially once I have taught students how to do something and then they keep messing it up over and over again. People not saying what they mean makes me crazy, ‘Like what are you really trying to say to me right now,’ can you just come out and say it? That makes me crazy. Oh and NPR pledge drives. They do pledge drives like two or three times a year and for a week straight the radio is like you can call us at blah blah blah blah please send in your donations now. And there’s no news and I listen to NPR, I need NPR everyday, it’s like my life blood! So for a week every couple of times a year I just get suicidal because I have nothing to live for [because] when I get in my car [I need NPR] to calm me down. When they do these pledge drives […] my overall ability to cope with things wears really thin because I have no buffer, I have no emotional buffer!”
CoA: “If you could plan your dream proposal? Or would there not be?”
WS: “There would not be. I think that the system of the male proposing to the female as though it’s his decision. […] It’s like I decided first and then you get to decide, but like no pressure […] it’s just a high pressure situation where the male has all the control over the timing and if you say no your relationship is screwed up forever, even if you want to keep dating. The whole system I think is designed poorly and I think that it is a choice that two people should make together, not in a moment of pre planned high pressure.”
CoA: “What is your guilty pleasure?”
WS: “Thrift shopping. I have a kind of compulsive thrift shipping problem. I try not to […] I’m like, ‘you have enough clothes, stop it’ but then I keep going.”
CoA: “What was your worst subject in school?”
WS: “I got my one C of my life in Calculus, in the lower level, and that sucked because I was really sad. But it was okay because i did better the next semester. I think that it is good for everyone to get a C in their life, [it teaches you] ‘okay I can get over that.’”
