April 24, 2009
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The Daily News1 So...
2 We can't have any maw fahn wid pahrits now, is this it?
3 Too bad.
4 'Twas quite a ride fer a while, mates.
5 Five good years, by mah boook.
6 Too, too bad.
7 Moving on: The Sharks have to be your classic frutstrating Bay Area team. They're STILL in it, and physically probably the better team. But mentally? One word: Atlee Hammaker. M'bad.
8 SUCH a shame, and yet the team has given everybody a great ride, and still has the President's Trophy, which was well-earned. So let's keep rooting and cheering for those guys. They have earned it. They deserve it.
9 Well it's once again late at night as I take flight with the DN. I've been working from morning to night on all my stuff, so this seems to get out there a bit late.
10 So it'll be another shorter DN, which really, in 1996 when I began the DN's, they were about 10 items.
11 I found a box of them that is like three reams high in a storage unit around a month or so ago. When time, I'll retrieve a few and share them.
12 Yep. 1996. Let's see...that was like around three or four years ago, right? ; ) <---sideways blinky dude.
13 Lotta water, lotta bridges.
14 And most of us are all still here!
15 Perfect excuse to pop a cork tonight and salute the stars.
16 Moving on, Part the Second: I always tend to get mellower the last few weeks of school, because I used to see teachers just lose it. The kids are fast becoming zombies, as happens every year. They are to go through STAR testing next week, where they take tests all week to give all sorts of people incentive to start scrambling, pointing fingers, placing blame, dodging lawsuits, changing philosophies, demanding easier classes, demanding stricter standards, accusing us of "dumbying down". Accusing us of setting standards that are unrealistically high, creating billions of things with series of letters like EAP's, CST's, STAR's, CAHSEE's, TESA, SDAIE's, MST, PhD's, CIA's, LBJ's, OMG's, WTF's, and a thousand other reactions to these things, some of which make some sense I imagine.
17 I just go in there and teach.
18 Every day.
19 Got a great haiku from this little goofball in one of my classes. I must have read gajillion haikus, tankas, youvelcomes, etc. over the years, but this little guy submitted this, which should be the haiku of the century:
Haiku from a friend
I don't like haikus
I don't understand haikus
Refrigerator
20 Same kid who calls me Professor Harrington. He's about 4 feet tall, and wheels in this huge rolling backpack every single day. The last guy on Earth you would think could come up with something like that.
21 All in a day's work.
22 Or maybe all working in a daze.
23 I've had enough. I gottago.
24 Hope that put a smile on your face.
25 Live life.
26 Love life.
27 Have a great weekend.
28 Peace.
~H~
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