Page 52 of Biggest Player
What are you up to right now? As you said, it’s getting kind of late. Or are you a night owl?
Dex:
Definitely a night owl, depending. There’s nothing to watch on TV, and I can’t get into a new book and the house just feels really quiet, so I figured I’d see what you were doing.
Dex:
Are you a night owl or a morning person?
Margot:
Both, I guess? I feel like I don’t need much sleep to be peppy, but who knows. I wake up early during the week because I have to get to school and stuff.
Dex:
Yeah, same. Also depends on the season. If we’re knee-deep in the shit, I go to bed at like, 7PM, if we don’t have an evening game. I sleep a lot sometimes LOL
Margot:
That makes sense.
Dex:
So what is it like being a teacher and molding young minds and shit?
Margot:
LOL “molding young minds and shit”—no one has ever put it that way. I’ve always wanted to be a teacher, so I really love my job, even when you have a difficult parent.
Dex:
How are parents difficult?
Margot:
You know—the parents who think Little Morgan is perfect and not the classroom bully when in fact Little Morgan is out stealing toys and pulling hair and scribbling on someone else’s paper to be a dickhead. The level of denial can be frustrating.
Dex:
Do you actually have a kid named Morgan?
Margot:
That’s your takeaway from that paragraph?
Dex:
Yeah. I’m a detail-oriented person.
Margot:
Yes, I have a kid named Morgan, but that’s confidential. Don’t repeat what I just told you.
Dex:
My lips are sealed.
Margot:
