January 20, 2006
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The Daily News
1 So...Wilson Pickett walks into a bar...
2 Yesterday during 4th period, a student stole my cell phone.
3 I had plugged it in to charge it, right in front of my desk, and I guess I just took my eyes off it for a second and it vanished. Poof. Gone.
4 M'bad, I guess.
5 Every time some student steals from me, I just shake my head and say to myself, "M'bad." I say this because I'm a big boy, and I should know better than to be that careless, and I have likened it to a guy accidentally leaving his plate of cheese in front of a mouse hole.
6 We have mice. It's sad, but true.
7 Well, to me it is just a phone, a thing, and it meant nothing, really. Just another day.
8 Moving on: A bunch of us took off yesterday right after lunch and headed to the Ano Nuevo State Reserve, a magical section of coast located perhaps 25 miles north of Santa Cruz.
9 We were doing this with some of the fundraising monies that ATFNL has raised this year with some of their events. ATFNL keeps growing, and is becoming one of the most successful clubs on campus.
10 They sold coupon books, and put together an awesome haunted house earlier in the year, but more than that, this club has taken the lead in the entire district in dealing with the very real concerns of substance abuse, alcohol, tobacco challenges, and has recently expanded to offer professional and semi-professional guidance in family issues, relationship counseling, and basically how to live a happier, healthier life.
11 They are the largest group in the district, and are the strongest and best. Besides that, they have a LOT of fun! They took first place for Club entries at this year's Christmas in the Park downtown, and this club continues to grow, prosper, and have a great time.
12 Yesterday bonded that group. We went on a tour of an area of the coast that is like no other, and we learned of its history, and the miracle of its once-considered extinct elephant seals, magnificent creatures, alive and well in this mystical area of the coast that exists on some very unique wetlands, rich with history of the Ohlone Indians, and of magnificent land formations.
13 We felt we were walking in an area that is millions of years old.
14 We later went to McDonald's, where of course, Michelon and I began speaking of the Baloney Indians, and it went downhill from there.
15 Smiles everywhere, and a new dawn for a club I'll be running next year.
16 It put the vermin who took my cell, and everything else that's been bottled up all year into a bottle was sent forcibly into the sea.
17 Sometimes you just need an epiphany.
18 Yesterday was it.
19 Thank you, ATFNL.
20 You have officially arrived.
21 You'll excuse me, gentlemen. Your business is politics,
mine is running a saloon.
Humphrey Bogart, as Ric Blaine
Casablanca (1942)
21 You can't hurt steel.
23 Peace.
~H~
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