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1 Whew.
2 I'm in a race tonight to write the DN due to computer freeze mixed with AOL being it's usual useless self.
3 Right now I"m just too busy to take the time to fix all this stuff, but in around three weeks, I'm going to blow this stuff to the moooooooooon.
4 Moving on: Bullshot Crummond rocked this weekend. They finished off the show yesterday afternoon to the delight of a rare afternoon crowd. I beamed, so proud of so much, and so proud of this amazing group of students. I'm still flabbergasted at how well they did with so little adult supervision.
5 I was all set to go to the cast party yesterday and for some reason, just couldn't. I don't really know why, but I wanted to remember leaving the Theatre proud and amazed. Not that a party would have made that any less effective, I just smiled and decided to bypass that. A lot of emotions I suppose, although if anyone accused me of that I would adamantly deny it.
6 Moving on, Part the Second: A big thank you goes out to all the e-mails and nice thoughts from the away-to-college set. All at once everyone wrote, and all are poised and ready to take on this last week or two before jetting home. Nice hearing from you guys, and yes, I do look forward to welcoming you home!
7 Moving on, Part the Third: Barry Bonds, Barry Schmonds.
8 Moving on, Part the Fourth: Did you ever wonder if Pebbles ended up marrying Bam Bam?
9 Moving on, Part V: My freshmen this year contrast wonderfully with freshmen from past years. For example, MOST of this year's group knew quite well that Shakespeare died. Last year about 60% weren't really too certain. Sharp cookies this year. People ask me all the time what doing activities is like, and very few people have asked about my regular classes.
10 I have a freshmen English 1 class that is brilliant and fun. I have LOVED working with them each morning. At the risk of sounding bloggy, they not only were enthralled by Romeo and Juliet, several stayed after class to catch the end of Mercutio's Queen Mab speech.
11 That's either a nerdy class, or a successful lesson, depending on your perspective. They aren't nerdy, and are just phenomenal students. I don't even mean academically, I just mean they're one of those rare great classes you get every now and again.
12 Sharp cookies, and freshmen.
13 They're the class that during STAR testing, sat while I was trying to run the school bank, the grad tix, as well as around thirty other jobs. This was around two weeks ago, when I received a call from my old pal Sherry LeBeau. Right in the midst of absolute madness a call came in, and I heard Sherry's familiar friendly voice.
14 "Mr. Harrington?"
15 "Yes?"
16 "Are you aware that you have a class right now?"
17 "AW SH#$T!" I shouted to myself. "How long have they been sitting there?" I knew the class was pretty well behaved.
18 "Around 40 minutes."
19 I dashed over, opened the door, and all I saw were smiles and shiny braces.
20 I paused. Beat. I darted my eyes back and forth, then spoke, out of breath.
21 "I'll give you each a dollar if you keep this under your hats!" I said. I really did. They laughed. One kid yelled, "How about ice cream?"
22 We wound up having ice cream last week. I forgot one day, and on another day I remembered, bought everything, but had no bowls. I fined myself each time, adding chocolate syrup, then whipped cream, then cherries.
23 I actually forgot the whipped cream and cherries at home on the day of, so I STILL owe those guys that, and now some caramel.
24 I intend to deliver that on the same day I finally show them Taming of the Shrew.
25 Teaching is still a treat sometimes. I loved it.
26 I loved Bullshot Crummond. I hope the cast and crew understand why I just couldn't get to a party.
27 No pictures today, sorry. AOL once again choked when I needed them, and Mozilla can't do a mass mailing.
28 The computer froze again last night.
29 So we'll just sorta limp to the end of the year when I have a little more time to look into all this.
30 Meanwhile, it was fun sharing some stories about some great kids.
31 And Bullshot, smile this morning. It's your time in the sun.
32 Peace.
~H~
 Another AOL is the SHITS note, 9 p.m. 5-21-07: Still fighting a freezing race with the computer but made strides. So here's today's DN, a little late, but we are finally going in and correcting things. Pardon our dust. Gottago, gotta write tomorrow's DN! Yippeeeeeee!!!! peace ~H~ |
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