December 8, 2004
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The Daily News
1 Give it up for Publisher's Weekly, who awarded Jon Stewart's America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction the Book of the Year. Stewart is irreverant, funny, and pretty much right on the money. Good to see that someone sees that.
2 So, yeah, just settling in to the coming Christmas vacation. I know there are those who read this drivel knowing perfectly well that teachers have more time off than most people walking around, but yeesh. They just MIGHT forget teachers who go the extra mile doing things for kids. The entire months of September and October, to this guy, were spent in a sea of chicken wire, paint, posters, balloons, HUGE messes, a play, AND with the grading of papers, the teaching equivalent to a farmer cleaning out the chicken coop.
3 But I digress...
4 Yesterday was a mellow day. All the tension and sadness of Monday's tears and hugs disappeared yesterday, being replaced by a sky containing puffy clouds, a Maxfield Parrish sky, and the sweetness of a silence following a storm.
5 There was peace.
6 Oh, we had a district budget meeting in the Theatre, but I was long gone, as was Rocha, when THAT little baby arrived. Wolcott and I took off to a Starbucks, and talked and chatted about everything under the sun. What a lovely afternoon!
7 Getting away...looking at a sky, taking time to smell the coffee...these are the things I'm going to be enjoying more and more. Within one day, a whole bunch of stress and tension disappeared in an afternoon of high-fives, gentle laughter, and a guffaw or two for good measure.
8 Two wiseguys.
9 So yeah. Schmott cookies. Two of 'em. Double the pleasure; double the fun!
10 What? OH! Old commercial, so sorry, you wouldn't KNOW.
11 HA!
12 You fill in the gaps.
13 So evidently Donald Rumsfeldt is used to working without the proper equipment.
14 If it wasn't so callous it would actually be funny.
15 What else? Oh. Barry Bonds.
16 Oy.
17 And now the weather.
18 Looks like rain.
19 Peace.
Comments (1)
Rain is beautiful, a spiritual cleansing
I think a very wise man once said that.I've been meaning to get my hands on that Jon Stewart book; Iv'e heard it's nothing but pure genius.
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