August 25, 2005
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The Daily News
1 You know, sometimes when things calm down around here, the school rewards us with just being the school. Things seemed to settle in today; the morning yawned along; leaves clung to the trees for dear life; red squirrels ran in and out of holes around the quad, and Linda Nguyen has appeared on every billboard in town, as well as on a guy watering his lawn's underpants, AND, I think, on myriad boxes of Wheaties in the cereal aisle at Albertson's.
2 That kid sixth period has taken to INSISTING that Charlie Chaplin is Hitler, and I can do nothing to correct the fellow. Yesterday he seemed adamant, little guy...
3 Emerson continues to amuse and bemuse me, even if he is my boom box.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
4 Yeah, thanks guy.
5 Last night I hit a brick wall with this piffle. I guess you might say I got stage fright, in a manner of speaking. The DN audience expanded tremendously this year, as I added people from all the way back to the 80's, which both they AND I will insist was NOT that long ago.
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
6 Ain't it the Truth.
7 All those quotes floating about today!! Emerson, d00d, unless otherwise labeled. In my search for the perfect Emersonian quip, I discovered that one I have been throwing around this year was a misquote, which stunned me a little, but not too much. For the record, here is the corrected version:
Write it in your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
That's "in the year" and not "of the year" as I previously had quoted. I don't see that there is a tremendous difference, but I had noticed online that Google had different versions. I defaulted to Bartlett's, which is THE last word on quotes, and they set the record straight. Let's hear it for the geeks!
8 It's still a lovely thought. Want another?
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail.
9 < <snaps.>> <<sunglasses>><<lip jewelry>><<green hair>><<black turtlenecks>><<dark MACLA joints<<>>@@
10 Anyway, all was peaceful last night. Sometimes no news is delectably good news, all by itself. I get worn out sometimes when I sit and ponder what to write. I begin looking at my e-mailbox to see if anything has flown in, and that becomes ridiculous, because I find myself anxious to answer an e-mail instead of staring at a blank page trying to put something readable out there.
11 So let's just write it in your heart that it is a FRIDAY, and if you are a smart person, you'll honor that by doing as little as is humanly possible today. If you work, it's okay to goof off today. You not only have my permission, you have my encouragement! If you don't work, then you already have a Master's. Go back to bed, yo. It beats watching commericials for Geico, or Bad Boys Bail Bonds. Just, listen to the birds on the hot wire sing...
12 If you are a student, act as though you are intensely interested in all your teachers yammerings. Act as though it's the most sensational miracle since the invention of liquid bubbles. Look to them as the new Messiahs and Gandhi's. And THEN keep the <tilt> signs hidden behind your pupils!!! And THEN think about go-karting, or water slides, and always, the BEACH!!!!
12 In fact, Fridays are to a GOOF what Sundays are to Pat "Bombs Away" Robertson: You won't see Robertson assassinating people on the Lord's day, so you, likewise, should work at doing absolutely nothing on a Friday!
13 M'bad. Just keep thinking, "Anywhere but here. Anywhere but here! Anywhere but here!" and click your ruby slippers. The world will suddenly open a door and turn to full color.
14 It's Friday. We made it. Thanks everybody; it wasn't an easy ride. Emerson, you da man. Little boring, but hey, you're a literary figure; it's allowed.
12 Well, that's about all. I hope you all have a rockin' weekend, and congrats to everyone who walked around in Zombieland for getting through opening week. It's time to wake up and live again.
13 And Linda, whoever you are, hot campaign, babe.
14 Peace, and chocolate.
Win as if you were used to it; lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
15 Late.
