October 7, 2008
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The Daily News
1 If there's anything at all good about the economy, it's that if you didn't have much to begin with, you probably didn't lose much.
2 Yeesh.
3 Gas is lower.
4 What a buzz.5 I've been eating lots of crock pot meals.
6 How did it ever come to this?
7 Well I sure hope everybody's okay out there. It probably is a tad political.
8 Just a wild guess.
9 I saw an interview recently on You Tube. It featured the late, great Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. a before he became unstuck in time.
10 One of the last things he said was that with all the Secretaries we have in the government, why don't we have a Secretary of the Future?
11 You really need to wonder.
12 Well, all a friend could say is ain't it a shame.
13 Moving on: I'm experimenting with the DN these days.
14 Time-management concerns. Yesterday's was written on Sunday morning at 4 a.m. when the world was just a breezy fan and old movies.
15 Today's was written yesterday during my afternoon constitutional.
16 I have a prep period right after lunch, arguably the best time to have a break the entire day.
17 It's almost an hour and a half long, and then I go back out on stage for a one-hour group, and call it a day. It's just not a good time to grade papers. It's NEVER a good time to grade papers, but really, you need a nice restful stretch of time for that.18 So I wrote most of this yesterday just before 2 p.m., a total departure from the 4 a.m. syndrome.
19 I went to the haberdashery yesterday and bought meself a finely crafted hat, all on me lunch break.
20 I got back, entered The Cathedral, turned up the A/C and chilled. Pure quiet for a good half hour.
21 Before I dashed out, a student from last year's English class visited.
22 Bright light. Just wanted to pop in and say hello.
23 No other reason. Just to catch up, and to exchange a coupla stories of the characters that were in the class.
24 It really was nice. I didn't think I made any sort of impact last year, after the dust settled. So one of my best students came in and spent lunch time chatting about everything and nothing, which is what I love talking about.
25 I don't have thousands of students in my room anymore, and to be honest, I love the quiet. Sometimes I could actually grade a few papers, or listen to KNBR. and be left alone.
26 But yesterday this kid came in and we chatted for around a half hour. Just chatted, about everything and nothing.
27 Sometimes that could be so refreshingly breezy.
28 I felt like a teacher again.29 I think I've been trying so hard to do a good job this year that I forgot that I was one. I don't know if that makes any sense at all, but I've got a sofa of papers I sit on while I grade hundreds of others. The actual teaching seems to fly by pretty quickly each day in between the bouts of planning.
30 So yeah, it sorta stopped me that someone actually LISTENED to all my horseshit.
31 Anyway, it's amazing to me that one student could walk in and make my day. It was reassuring and just a small moment, but in many ways, an important moment.
32 A shrill horn just sounded. It's the same exact "bell" they used to have at YB for as far back as I can remember.
33 And it's just as obnoxious as ever.
34 It shrieks for around six seconds, then falls off the face of the Earth, but not until it has launched an electrical charge of noise straight through your cabesa.
35 The current group of Frosh are filing in, reasonably quiet so far, but I'm thinking it won't last.
37 So I'm going to call it a day here and start teaching, even though it will be Tuesday morning by the time this publishes.
38 So enjoy your Tuesday.
39 I still insist it's the most useless day of the week.
40 Imagine no more Tuesdays.
41 It's easy if you try.
42 Peace.
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HI H!
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