December 20, 2007
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1 I figured out that the real Santa Claus is at Eastridge.
2 If you can get over there it's definitely worth looking.
3 I SWEAR it's him.
4 Ha.
5 You don't believe me, do you? Well, sometimes it seems he's everywhere this time of the year.
6 Yesterday this teacher who LOOKS like a thinner version of Santa Claus gave me an ornament at a secret Santa party.
7 Actuallly it was TWO ornaments. I unwrapped the first, and it was this beautiful silver 2007.
8 Well it LOOKS silver anyway.
9 Then I opened the second.
10 It was a glass angel that said one word: Believe.
11 I looked up and he was wearing a Santa hat. He has white hair and a white beard, so naturally I loved it.
12 I also found an extra LCD projector behind a cabinet the other day.
13 Wound up setting up It's a Wonderful Life for my Honors kids. Hey kids. I got you class sets so you don't have to carry books to class anymore, and guess what?
14 When I slid the whiteboard over, this guitar amp and LCD projector was just sitting right where I put the books.
15 They were all talking and such, as is their wont this time of the year.
16 I just kept babbling the way you do, things like, "Huh? What is this LAPTOP doing in this cabinet? What's going on here?"
17 I slowly set up the film, but only one or two students even noticed.
18 Sometimes you take being ignored to the next level.
19 Eventually the entire class noticed that a film was being set up for them.
20 A student finally asked, "Mr. H, are we going to see a movie today?"
21 I stopped, waited for complete silence, and said, "And what do you think? That I could just pull a movie out of my back pocket?"
22 And bam.
23 Haha. LOVED it. I told them that because they worked so hard this semester that I was going to introduce them to a classic.
24 Buffalo girls wontcha come out tonight, come out tonight, come out tonight...
25 One last thing.
26 On the same secret Santa party, I had drawn the head of the English Department's name.
27 I got her a snazzily cozy hat and scarf with dingle balls, but on my gift card envelope, I put a picture of Stonehenge.
28 Underneath the pic I wrote the words, "English rocks."
29 Haha. M'bad.
30 Believe.
31 Peace on Earth.
~H~
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