she knows we participate in "alternative cultures" (Homosexuality! Nooooo) and we wear odd clothes and we engage in "bizarre use of the internet."

When I was in my first year of college, "alternative cultures" included wanting to study and actually get an education at college. The residential assistant actually recommended that I seek counselling for it. Your teacher needs to broaden her horizons. As long as you're at school and doing fairly well (which I see, from your entries, is the case), you're not the ones she needs to worry about. The ones she needs to worry about aren't at school....but she'll never figure that out. As for "bizarre use of the internet" ---just about everything about the internet is bizarre in some way. I've been using the internet for almost ten years now and I still find it hard to believe that it lets me talk to someone half a world away.

There are worse things out there than slash fiction and homosexuality. Some of the messed up people I know screw their stuffed animals and would happily apply that to the family pet as well.

Too bad I couldn't tell that teacher you're fine, eh?