On collages

Last semester I made this haphazard collage of what "being an English teacher" means to me. At the time I didn't understand how I was supposed to know what kind of teacher I was, because I hadn't yet taught anyone anything (English or otherwise). It gave me fascinating insight into what I (rightly or not) believed an English teacher should be and could be. I still don't know where I sit. It's like trying to put ourselves in subculture baskets, which have always confused me. Am I rockabilly-indie-hipster-nerd or a hippyrockaster? I don't want to teach my students to reduce their complexity to neat boxes, and I don't see the need to do that with my professional practice. What kind of English teacher am I going to be? The confused kind, the kind that changes what kind they are, the messy kind.