February 17, 2006
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The Daily News
1 Haha! Money, money, money! Happy President’s Day! Uh..when IS President’s Day?
2 The trouble with teaching is, we don’t get nearly enough holidays. Well, it’s time for Winter Break already!
3 Yeesh.
4 Didn’t we JUST come out of Christmas? Well, I’m not complaining. We get lots and LOTS of time off, that’s for certain. As my good friend and confidant Kenny the P so eloquently puts it,”Beats workin’!” Oh, I imagine, I imagine.
5 Gives us extra time to spend all that dough we make.
6 I apologize that I haven’t goofed on things in the news, things such as guys writing fake books about re-hab, or about Cheney shooting his friends, or even the Stanford tree getting fired for working the Cal game with a heat on. There’s lots of things that got past me this year, but I promise you, I’m still smart as a whip. So I’ll try to stay right on those stories, because it can really be a pretty funny world out there, and worth a few laughs!
7 President’s Day.Well! Isn’t the apostrophe supposed to be AFTER the “s”? Well, I looked it up on whitehouse.gov, and evidently, it’s “t” apostrophe, making it belong to each individual. Okay…
8 President’s Day. I wonder when it became THAT. Like, I imagine Washington used to have his own birthday and stuff, and then all of a sudden some lanky guy on a fiver comes in, and then we had TWO birthdays to celebrate, so they combined it into President’s Day.
9 I’m Washington, I’m a little pissed. After having survived the Great Cherry Tree Scandal, I have a birthday; I move to that great White House in the sky , and the nation rewards me with a holiday on my birthday. And they put my picture on money!
10 I’m guessing that when Lincoln came on board, and had HIS birthday, old White Wig-Wam moved gracefully over, and shared the two separate birthdays. “Hey,” he probably figured, “the more the merrier!”
11 But at one point, they, <whoever “they” is!> decided to combine BOTH birthdays, and that’s ALWAYS not fair!
12 I’ll bet that when they did THAT, Washington got pissed. That might explain the apostrophe.
13 But I’m guessing that any man who goes about looking like Barbara Bush probably went through life a little pissed anyway. It may have been the rouge.
14 And then he’s only a dollar and a quarter, and Honest Abe, who never chopped down anything, became the cover boy for a five spot.
15 So it became “President’s Day”. Now isn’t your birthday supposed to be sort of exclusively YOUR birthday? I mean, when you’re a kid you get the party hats, the presents, the paper blowers…
16 Yeah, Washington was probably pissed, if I know people, and I think I do.
17 Lincoln might have been a little upset, but he was second anyway, and he wore a fine stove-top hat, not some hot wig.
18 Either way, we in education, the profession that thrives on holidays, saw the opportunity to stretch it into a fine week called Winter Break, even though we JUST had Christmas Break. Way to work it.
19 So, the combining of those two money blokes’ birthdays into one solid week gives the DN a much-needed rest.
20 Hopefully some of you can catch up on these venerable musings and ramblings.
21 Well, if you’re in town, you might pop over to the Northside Theatre Company tonight or Saturday, or next Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights to see our own Angie Higgins in Noel Coward’s wonderful play, Private Lives. Northside Theatre Company is located right down McLaughlin, headed south, and you turn left on William St. Go to the William St. Park, and it’s the little recreation center there. Curtain at 8. There are also Sunday matinees at 3. Easy to do, and always great shows.
22 Meanwhile, I’m outta here for a while. The VSA fashion show goes up Friday night, I think at 6, but you might need to ask someone.
23 And that’s it for this first stretch of ’06.
24 See you in a week!!!
25 Peace, y’all!
Who knew?
Haha!!
Peace!
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