EXTERIOR: Diner, about half full 11:30am
Greg talks with his father about taking up a teaching job at a prestigious school that is hiring for the first time in 12 years. His father is stern and unmoving. Greg has never had his fathers approval in anything that he has ventured out to do ever since he could remember. he knew that this meeting would only end in disappointment.
INTERIOR Motel Room 2:00pm
Greg has always had trouble keeping jobs ever since he was a pool boy in his youth. Greg swore to quit smoking but always found that he had spares whenever he felt that his nerves would overwhelm him. He spent days pacing back and forth in front of the telephone surrounded by clouds of indecision on calling the school out of fear of seeming to desperate.
INTERIOR Principal's Office
Greg gets the job and begins just before the students return from the summer. He is both amused and surprised that he 'had what it took' to get the position. He comes home with happy news only to find that his girlfriend of 3 years has left him for his best friend. By the time the actual job starts Greg is swimming in a pool of depression.
INTERIOR Class Room
Greg is teaching an existentialism elective to the most oblivious and happy students that he has ever come across. The students are not brought down by Greg's ever constant sour mood. Greg presses on with new interesting and depressing lessons to bring down the spirits of all of his students, to open their eyes to the real world.
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