August 29, 2006

• The Daily News

  
  Picture courtesy of the immortal dirty jose.
  
  

  1  Well hello there!

  2  Looks like we're back in business!

  3  First DN from my new crib.

  4  Well, for those of you who DON'T know, I finally busted loose from YB.

  5  This Daily News comes to you directly from the office of the newly hired
  Activities Director at Evergreen Valley High School!

  6  I wouldn't joke about something THAT absurd!

  7  Xanandu.

  8  The Chill on the Hill.

  9  Hold it for a sec. My dog's yapping at me, and it's just ridiculous.

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  11  That's better. Now where was I?

  12  Turns out the CIA sent me to Xanandu for having done such a magnifique job down in the flatlands. When they saw that I could convince kids that Shakespeare might just possibly not be dead, they took me up to the City of Gold, the Chill on the Hill, the new Xanandu!

  13  New digs.

  14  And I've been too busy to even see straight! A LOT of issues, a LOT of thoughts, and no time really even to stop the world long enough to realize what is happening. We've already had
  a boosters night, meetings with staff, my first two public speeches, freshmen orientation tonight, from which I just returned, and tomorrow morning I teach my first classes in a different school since having landed on YB soil all those years ago.
                                                                      
  15  Tomorrow morning, or THIS morning, at 7:15 a.m. I will teach my first Leadership class. After that, second period, I'll teach my 4 millionth English class, only these guys are a bit more sure as to the ultimate destiny of Shakespeare.

  16  The first class ends at 8:15. The second class ends just after 9. Then I'm done teaching. That's my daily gig. From 9-5 I'm an Activities Director, and many nights.

  17  Tonight I saved the meeting, which consisted of almost 700 parents and students in the gym. The mic guy just didn't show, and they turned to me. I had NO idea how or what or where they even KEPT their mics, let alone how to hook them up.

  18  They called janitors, and everyone else. I asked the ASB if they had a Sparky.

  19  The national anthem played. I found the system, ran it up, saluted with sweat pouring down my brow and stinging my eyes. I passed a cord to Sparky guy. Nothing.

  20  I thought I had failed, however heroic it was getting that huge system to the gym and hooking it up in less than five minutes. But it didn't work. The first ten minutes of the meeting I kept wrestling with it. Nothing.

  21  Suddenly...POP! The whole place looked! The Administrators broke into miraculous smiles, and someone somewhere said, "Now I know why we hired that guy!"

  
  
  
  22  That guy. Yeesh. Haha. Dumb luck, but somehow I was an instant hero.

  23  Walking outside at sunset, I looked at the night sky, still a dark shade of orange, which lit up a sliver and a star. Outside, the band faced the theatre and played magnificently. The sunset painted the sky in a swirling masterpiece. The lights of the city twinkled San Jose yellow, and you all know what that looks like.

  24  I have no pictures on this DN. Can't because my computer may freeze any second, and I need to get some sleep.

  25  Not without sharing that with you.

  26  Nope.

  27  Not that.

  28  The cat just walked over and sat halfway in the open door, and halfway in the living room. The night air came through and quietly touched my shoulder.

                                             
                                                                                                                                    
  29  Time for bed.

  30  That's the first DN, and there will be more, I promise you.

  31  There will be more.

  32  Farewell YB; believe it or not, I'm going to miss you and all your wonderful memories.

  33  Preserve your memories.

  34  They're all that's left you.

  35  Peace.

   

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