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1   One of the worst things about Xanga is that you could write the Great American Novel, and it could erase all of your hard-earned work within milliseconds.

2  That just happened.

3  I spent like around an hour writing up today’s DN, complete with a review of the Republican National Convention, and it simply erased all my wonderfully inciteful commentary.

4  Like McCain, Guilliani, and the Blue Men in the audience.

5  I actually enjoyed the eloquence of both McCain AND Guilliani, even if I don’t agree with them.

6  But Xanga was swift to come in and make my work invisible.

7  Sadly, it was a fun DN, and quite sincere.

8  So it goes.

9  Ever been there?

10  Ah, what the heck. Most normal people were doing other things, so I guess it’s all good.

11  But…

12  But nothin’.

13  Well, the bottom line is that, as always, I was apolitical, and embraced the pomp with my usual sweetness and open arms.

14  I guess I’ll just try again tomorrow.

15  Y’all wuz robbed.

16  OH yeah!

17  Maybe next time…

18  Peace.

 

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1   The reports are in from the Senior Sunrise, which happened this Saturday morning, early. It was, simply stated, a beautiful day. The Seniors met at YB in the early hours, 5 a.m., and caravaned up the rather daunting Mt. Hamilton Road, under bright stars, and above the city lights.

2  The morning rocked gloriously as the caravan made its way up the mountain, all the way to the early peak, and then descending gracefully to the entrance to the park.

3  We scurried about, finally gathering on a small picnic area overlooking our own foothills, and settled in to a breakfast of donuts, eggs, bacon, icy orange juice, and fresh milk. And we waited…

4  And waited…

5  A few kids showed concern, but I reassured them of the odds of the sun coming up, and we finally all relaxed, chilled, and quite soon, the sun came up, bathing the scene in radiant splendor. Nothing really religious, or miraculous, just a fun smile for a fun group.

6  Afterwards, everyone stayed around, posed for pictures, and eventually packed up, and moved back up the mountain, and home.

7  Lovely memory.

8  Soon, everyone went different places, rested, and later on, went over to Sunshine’s house to enjoy the celebration of his eighteenth birthday, complete with backyard barbecue, tiki torches, twinkling lights, and a full moon, all on a wonderfully warm and welcoming night.

9  There are some things in life that are simply precious; this entire day worked for all of us.

10 The evening ended with us all sitting in Sunshine’s back yard, singing songs, talking, and celebrating life, love, and good times.

11 If someone had tried to plan all of this, it would never have worked as beautifully as it did. A LOT of people planned a lot of things: the officers scouted the site two days prior; Sunshine’s family worked for days getting everything together for the party, and it just happened after all that.

12  Congratulations, Seniors; as always, a beautiful memory once more will live with all of us the remainder of our days.

13  Good times; good times.

14  Have a wonderful Monday, everybody!

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1  So okay!  My third DN was assembled, researched, edited, and then I find at 9:00 last night that it had been held private!

2  Took me about three tries before I finally got all the news that was rushing in at me, and I just LOVED the items! I actually wrote it TWO nights ago, but just forgot to push this little Xanga button entitled “public”.

3  Don’t get old.

4  Anyway, if you missed yesterday’s DN, just scroll down on my Xanga.com/bharrington “website” and VIOLA!!

5  For those of you not sensationally acute, I am well aware of the difference in spellings. You think you are dealing with an IDIOT here?

6  Don’t answer that. Haha!

7  Anyway, I went online to write TODAY’S DN, and I just swapped myself in the forehead with a tremendous blow. Hurt, dude.

8  All that water, under da bridge.

9  Ah, whateveuh. Anyone knows me knows I’m an idiot.

10 Butcha GOTTA love it.

11 Don’t get old, I swear!

12 Or do. It’s refreshing!

13  Somebudduh save me!

14  Haha! First week. It just goes South from here.

15  See ya Mundee, unless you go to Senior Sunrise tomorrow, which meets at school at 5:15.

16  I had a bunch more, especially with all these delicious trials, local sports’ teams, Mark Purdy, and Amber, but I’ll save that for later.

17  To end on a lovely note: one of my best friends just was told he wasn’t going to Iraq. Great Tahoe buddy. The very best, and his name is TBM, and, well, nevermind. He got news yesterday that he didn’t have to go.

18  So you know: when I left Mars, he left a souvenir Mars cup holder/cooler in my cabin. I swore I would return it to him next year.

19 It now looks as though that just may happen.

20 Peace.

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1   Well bust my buttons.

2   I guess the SECOND day of school needs a place here.

3   The SECOND day of school is much more hectic than the first. Why, you may ask?

4   Because you FAKE it through the first day, at least, as a teacher you do! Ah, come on!! Most of us are like cars that were parked in the weeds last June, and we suddenly need to start them up and have them running like a dream machine.

5   Just not so. ACTUALLY, what we do, is we fall to our knees before our favorite religious icon, and begin praying, and asking for eternal salvation.

6   Or not.

7  But the SECOND day of school comes at us as swiftly as a Randy Johnson fireball, and we’d better hit it out, or we will get clobbered.

8  I made it through the SECOND day of school with grace and style, despite having virtually no sleep, and a fairly meager lesson plan, AND despite arriving two minutes before school began.

9  Yeah, the job sounds easy, but trust me.

10 Every day must look as though you had it completely together, and that you know exactly what you are doing, how you intend to go about doing it, and then delivering.

11 Okay, I did.

12  And it worked.

13  Well…sort of.

14  More to come. We almost lost the Tundra in dry heat and nasty sand yesterday, but it’s another story. We went to Grant Park iso a place for Senior Sunrise, and met with near calamity.

15  I’ll be back.

 

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1   Welcome back!

2   Hey, all you Xanga goofs: the DN is back, and back with a 
     vengeance!!  In many ways, the DN was the first Xanga
     ever, and began in 1996!!! And is now still going!

3   Sorry, I suffer from extreme low self-esteem, so please
     bear with me, a term I really never quite knew.

4   Yesterday, several students insisted that History teachers had
     taught them the origin of the word “hooker”. Please don’t
     ask how the convo sank to that level, but I was titillated.

5   Who invented THAT word? Enquiring minds want to know.

6   So Band!! Yeah, you guys!!! Enrollment had gone up,
     thanks in large part to Mrs. Hooper!!! And Choir kids: I can’t
     wait to hear you; a lot of you are Seniors, my class, and I know
     how much you guys rock, so give it everything you have!!! Very
     exciting times in the Performing Arts Department!

7   Speaking of Seniors, I have always understood, d00ds. I have
     watched this happen for years, the smiles, the tears, and the
     memories that happen so swiftly in this amazingly strange
     place!  Just know that the whole school has your back, and
     we all understand the mixed emotions of entering that Senior
     year.

8   The unique thing is that I, too, feel I am a member of the
     Senior Class.  And Class perfectly defines this wonderful
     group of students.

9    It’s the very first day of school.

10  Funny. Yesterday I wrote the REAL first DN, and I had
      all sorts of strange things messing with my Xanga site, which
      usually runs pretty smoothly.

11  And a mysteriously wonderful graduate pulled up to the school,
      and the song Blue Moon was playing on her radio.

12    Even a cursory look at the archives, or even of the
        Heidi Chronz, will let you know that Heidi is alive
        and well, and again making her presence known.

13    That’s always a good thing, a good thing.

14    Went to lunch with some classic teachers yesterday.

15    My order was number 63.

16    To those of you in the Know, that’s a nine. 6 + 3 = 9.

17    As ColdPlay would put it, “Come on, now; don’t you
        want to see?”

18    This could prove to be one of the most interesting, exciting,
        and wonderful years ever.

19    Ask Heidi.

20    Peace.

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3   After an entire summer watching the A’s and Giants somehow
     staying in it; after an entire summer of watching Bush and
     Kerry having a clean go of it; after an entire summer of looking
     at Reagan flags at half-mast; after an entire summer of watching
     the very wussy Scott Peterson whining to his mistress over the
     phone, there’s the DN!

4   Let us not forget our wonderfully drugged out weight lifters and
     putters. Did you get a load of that Irina Korzhanenko? She’s
     the putter who looks curiously like Krazy George.

5   It’s somewhat fitting then, that The Scream vanished from the
     Munch Museum yesterday, so we could get a load of that painting
     first thing this morning.

6   I was having a heck of a time trying to get that picture up this
     morning; I’ll probably be late for my first meeting. Day-um!

7   The day before school starts. <sigh>

8   I just thought I’d put in a full week on the DN, just to get myself
     going.  Trust me; I’m not TRYING to be late…

9  So this is just a quickie to let you know that the DN is up and
      running.

10  On my other site, which is Xanga.com/El_Directore, I did a short
      series a few entries back entitled Just Another Moonlight Mile. I
      spent a large part of my summer watching people close to me
      getting sick, going to homes, and other sort of sad things, but
      I was also able to go back to my childhood places, and get back
      to some ancient realities. The result of all that was this short
      little trilogy, and I think you might enjoy it.

11  Well, that’s about it. I think I’ll send this off to y’all and get
      on my new horse, which is this monstrous Toyota Tundra, an
      emerald job that has after-burners. So not me, but yeah, that’s
      my brag, and my new ride, yo.

12  Peace, y’all.

 

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