Caitlin and Nicole HarringtonThe Daily News
1 Happy Frideeeeeeeeeyeah!!!!!
2 The first news coming in is from me old friend and confidante Evelyn. I am honored to request that we all enjoy a film competition that her husband, Christian, has entered, the likes of which involve film, and art.
3 Christian is a filmmaker extraordinaire. He recently entered a film contest sponsored by Artsopolis and San Jose 48-Hour Film Project.
4 Christian has paired up with a local artist, and his challenge is to create a 30-90 second video about the artist. He had one month, literally, the month of April to complete the task.
5 I’d like publicly to support Christian. You may view his work on the link below, and then vote. Christian encourages you all to look at as many of the videos as possible, but in my eyes, he should get your support.
6 You may vote once, or your vote won’t count.
7 Here’s the link. Christian’s is the third one down. If you click the title, you can watch it huge on YouTube.
8 Good luck to you, my fellow artiste.You are not only a goodly friend, but an accompished filmmaker to boot.
9 It’s Frideeee, and I can’t even tellya.
10 I have SO much goin’ on that I’m almost afraid to share.
11 So I won’t.
12 I’ll just buy time ’til I could run out the clock.
13 Yeesh.
14 Ever feel that way?
15 Thank goodness for Beth Kilduff, who is keeping all of us informed as to how many school days there are left.
16 I guess there is one thing that made me laugh, but it would require explanation.
17 I had one of the best lessons EVER goin’, and somewhere a songbird from my class just said, “Mitchell”.
18 I stopped immediately, because there is this Mystery Science Theatre 3000 deal that my family has watched at least three times that took on this horrible one-star detective v. drug dealers film called Mitchell.
19 Caitlin brought it home about a week ago, and we never laughed harder.
20 You have to see it to believe it; it is truly a work of absolute art.
21 But then the entire MST series was pretty hilarious.
22 Just rent it, sight unseen, and have a hundred people over.
23 Ahhhhhyoumightgetityoumightnot.
24 Moving on, Part the First: Today marks a major day in the life of my daughter Nicole. Today she graduates from the Elementary Education Department, and in my eyes, today marks the day that she is officially a teacher. It is technically the San Jose State University TE Collaborative Teaching Credential Program’s Convocation, for the record. It means my daughter is a teacher to me. She always has been; they just had to catch up with her.
25 I have watched her teach since she was a little girl, playing school, teaching young dancers how to dance, working in schools, teaching at various schools, and now, she walks proudly with the greats. It has been her lifelong dream, despite all the ridiculous roads they put in front of new teachers. She has not lost the dream, and I think she is dazzling.
26 She is younger, brighter, more organized, and more passionate than I could ever hope to be. To say I am proud of her would be an understatement. As of 4:00 this afternoon, she will walk.
27 Congratulations Coley. This is your big moment. Smile so big that it rains.
28 Even God gets choked up every now and again. He saw your struggles, and also saw your inspiration. We got to see the admiring looks in your students’ eyes.
29 Great day.
30 Moving on, Part the Second: And that ain’t all. Last week my daughter Caitlin became engaged. We celebrated all last weekend, looked up wedding places, dresses, and all the rest all week, and TOMORROW is her birthday! We’re hitting the Giants v. A’s game at the Coliseum, and we shall go in full orange and black regalia. That’s always a jinx, of course, so A’s fans might look forward to our arrival. But we’ll still represent.
31 So today: vote for Christian.
32 And a special Congrats to Nicoley on this fine afternoon.
33 And a happy, happy birthday to Caitlin.
34 Wild week.
35 You all enjoy your Frideeeeee!!!! I sure will!!!!
36 Peace.
~H~
