April 27, 2010
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The Daily News
1 Dayum. It’s only Tuesday!2 Yesterday I had the Mondays. I swear to you. The Mondays.
3 Okay, don’t get all over me, but I actually had a not-so-good Monday.
4 Nothin’ big, but I had worked my tail off all weekend on grading my students’ papers, ‘cuz I actually do READ them, and by the end of the night, I felt exhausted.
5 The trouble with teaching is that when you actually care what your students are saying and writing, you must sacrifice a good day’s lesson because you have put all your work into reading their papers.
6 What that does is it causes a teacher to do is to put all effort into the students, and almost none into the day’s lesson!
7 I’ll smoke a cigar and allow you time to catch up.
8 Okay.
9 You breathing?
10 Ah vell. I forgot what the heck I started to say.
11 Ahhhhhh senility!!!!
12 Young people have NO idea how wonderful it is to be a fine ol’ wine.
13 Okay, okay, so I’m not THAT old.
14 It’s sorta like when I look in the mirror and say, “GAWD I’m UGLY!!!!”
15 Inevitably anyone within earshot will respond, “You’re not THAT ugly!”
16 Isn’t that sort of like saying, “You’re ugly. But you’re not THAT ugly!” Hey, thanks for the compliment.
17 Moving on, Part the First: My entire family thinks that the Giants’ Eugenio Velez looks like a black Abraham Lincoln.
18 You be the judge:
19 Hey, I’ve told ALL of you for years that Lincoln was a GREAT President, but he was also the scariest! It’s no coincidence that this item is number 19.20 Whew, hooo, that is weird.
21 Ah, it’s all good.
22 Got ya goin’, that’s fo sho! But come on. Admit it. Lincoln was the eeriest President in history. GREAT President, but eerie.
23 I’m just sayin’.
24 Moving on, Part the Second: Sad news in from San Francisco: I guess it would ordinarily be “So…Kevin Restani walks into a bar…”
25 Kevin was a great USF star back-in-the-day, and went on to play for the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Milwaukee Bucks, the Kansas City Kings, and the San Antonio Spurs.26 He was also my Mom’s cousin’s son. He was still playing for an Olympic Club team, and had just completed a Grand Masters tournament in Milwaukee. After he returned to the Bay Area he experienced a heart attack, and passed away yesterday.
27 Sad news. I heard it this morning on KGO.
28 Moving on, Part the Third: I think I keep coming back to how astounding it is that it is only Tuesday. I really felt that I worked almost an extra week over the weekend. I also had a hectic Monday, but it was all good.
29 In many ways, it’s good still to be walkin’ around.
30 It’s funny when someone passes on, or gets really ill, that you really want to do SO much more. At least I do. It isn’t a bucket list or anything, just so many things.
31 I’m going to compile a list of things that I would REALLY like to do. I think it might be fun! Not impossible things, but really doable things, like learning archery, or traveling to Pinole.
32 Well, get an umbrella…or some sunscreen…it’s gonna be a rainy/sunny Tuesday.
33 I think.
34 Meanwhile, live life, love life.
35 Peace.
~H~
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