Streak of Gray

FIDM boasts a faculty with extensive industry experience. As I understand it, instructors are coached to "share" with us their industry experience on the first day of class. Lucky students. It usually starts with an introduction that communicates something like this: "I'm a tree hugging hippie. I was married and had a child but my career was too much for him so I had to leave because I wasn't happy not doing what I am 'passionate' about. I am deeply spiritual (but don't offend me by calling me religious.)" After that comes the "industry experience report." Everyone enjoys listening to someone go on and on about all the celebrities they've met, mingled with, and worked for. Please, Ms. Teacher, we're all dying to know that you've lived for a time in New York and a time in London and that you were once on MTV. Hold up that book; you wrote that?! Who are those pretty models on the cover? But wait! Please, please, please tell us more about what tragic condition forced you into those orthopedic shoes at the tender age of 55? And in which of those big cities did you pick up that swaggering sweatpant style? Where did you learn that a gold heart pendant on a chain would so beautifully polish off that otherwise drab ensemble? And my last question, why do all teachers like you always have that streak of gray across their mane of peppery hair? Just curious. Proceed.