Mike Johnson

my favorite teacher ever, my tenth grade ap european history teacher, mike johnson died this morning at home. apparently he had been fighting a rare blood cancer. funerals probably gonna be on thursday or friday. i just heard about it a few minutes ago myself...mom got an email from one of her teacher friends at the old school.

i hate that cos he was the teacher that completely turned around my attitude toward school, made me enjoy learning and realise that acting like a kid would only get you so far. he made me realise how great it was to embrace knowledge, rather than act like it was something that you had to be doing.

he also got me into jazz...he was a jazz piano player in the fifties and sixties...he used to tell stories about playing with bb king in the peabody hotel in chicago, playing with miles davis in a recording session, all these great stories.

now hes dead.

ci'e la vie.

z out