June 1, 2010
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The Daily News
1 Whew, GREAT weekend. <sucking on a smoke>. Thannnnks.2 <Awakening> Whaaaaaa????
3 Oh, m'bah.
4 <Awakening still further> Whaaaaaaaaa??????? OH SNAP!
5 It's a WORK day!
6 Who knew? LOLZ!!!
7 Yeah, LOLZ, but NOW what? <Revelie playing on loud bugle> DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH-DUH, DUH DUDDA DUH DUH DUH!!!!!! CLANNNNNNGGGG!!!!!
8 <Coming out of a coma> Ohhhhhhthassssright...9 Haha!
10 Get to work, beotches!
11 You ever feel that way after a lonnnnnng and glorious weekend?
12 Okay, so the Giants lost.
13 Who doesn't lose to that guy?
14 It was simply TOO glorious of a weekend, even though Dennis Hopper walked into a bar...
15 I had to add that, of course.
16 The weather worked perfectly; it's the end of the school year, and all is right.
17 Right where everything should be.
18 Giants, Schmiants. I LOVED the moment of silence during the seventh inning stretch, I must say. A moment, or even an eternity of silence should go out to our troops, and to anyone who has ever been touched by the agony of war.
19 I looked up and thought of my Uncle Bud, who was lost in war, and who is also the guy after whom I was named. I never knew him, but if he was anything remotely as beautiful as my own Dad, or my Aunt Tag, or my Aunt Lorraine, then he deserves not only mention, but an invitation to the party I hope to have for him should I reach the Great Beyond.
20 Well, I thought of lots of things yesterday.
21 Moving on, Part the First: Maybe Memorial Day goes beyond even our troops, and all those who gave so bravely.
22 Maybe Memorial Day is also about all of us.
23 We have all been touched at some point by the horrors of war, or by someone we know and love who has been touched deeply by it.
24 We have all seen the fear, and all that goes with it.
25 Many of us have never seen the actual battlefields, which is chaos and insanity beyond anything most of us could ever remotely comprehend.
26 I did much reflecting yesterday, and decided that often times, our decisions to go to war are often our of our own control. The reasons are often ensconced in disinformation and control by very powerful people. We must pledge never to go to war unless the reasons are spelled out clearly by leaders who don't lie, and who aren't greedy. It is time to save our troops from becoming the victims of lies. We must read our history more carefully, and put politicians under the scope.
27 To those who have fought and served, we will never forget. And we will be vigilant on our end by not voting for puppets and oil interests.
28 Moving on, Part the Second: There's a lot to be said to beginning a week on a Tuesday.
29 I have to imagine that most people are probably going to be relatively useless today.
30 AND, if Tuesday had been eliminated as a day of the week, today would be Wednesday. In an age of budget cuts and furloughs and all the rest, my idea of eliminating Tuesday as a day of the week truly begins to make more and more sense.
31 Naturally, if you were BORN on a Tuesday, it would probably be difficult to let go, but really, for the overall good of society, dude, let it go.
32 At our school, they have virtually eliminated Wednesday as a day of the week. Every single Wednesday this year was a minimum day, so that we could have meetings and meetings and meetings and meetings.
33 Meetings are a necessary evil in any company or group, but seriously?
34 Ah, vell. I think we should have a meeting to talk about it.
35 Moving on, Part the Third: So last night I go routinely to Xanga to write today's DN, and they have an entirely new "look", in which virtually EVERYTHING has changed. I still walked carefully through the muck, but it had booby traps and snares everywhere I turned. I tried to cut and paste, for example, and the entire page blew up.
36 When that happens, I usually figure that they are "updating", which continually is another necessary evil. The other day I thought seriously of undigiting my entire life.
37 Can you even imagine?
38 You just revolt. You throw out your television, your radios, our cell phones, your computers, everything digital. I'd be tempted to see what life would be like.
39 Wow. Couldn't be done now, could it? We'd all freak. We are a digital world. That's wonderful, and darned scary.
40 Ah, I'll save that for another day.
41 Moving on, Part the Fourth: There won't be too many more days of the DN this year. As most of you know, it goes from the day before the first day of school to the last Friday of the school year, with a reflective coming up on Friday, June 11. I'm already thinking that this was in so many ways a better year than last year.
42 Today marks the annual beginning of the end. I shall hear the opening music to The Taming of the Shrew, my annual end-of-the year Shakespearean feast for my students. All classes shall enjoy the exploits of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton duking it out, as always. There's a certain comfort in this tradition, in which my students delight in the antics while I finish up with the business of getting everything ready for summer, so that on the last day of school, I walk in, and walk out.
43 I keep thinking that the beginning of the end is not going to start, and that the school year is only in February.44 But it's here. It's June. It's overcast.
45 And I'm excited, because I'm anticipating one of the best summers ever.
46 So I think I'll quietly put to day's DN to bed, where both it and I belong. I began writing this one last night at 6 p.m.; it disappeared a few times, and I awakened at 2 a.m. to hammer it out.
47 I have already slept five hours, but I do believe I'd like to get in a few more before setting out to conquer this always cruel day after Memorial Day.
48 I hope you're well rested. If anyone gives you a tough time right today, call me. I'll straighten them right up.
49 Parting notes: Thanks TA, for being magnif, as always. Thanks K.T. for allowing for a fantastico Saturday. Thanks Nicoley, for lovin' the Gigantes, despite all. And thanks Rene, for clobbering the house.
50 Y'all have a great day.
51 Peace.
~H~
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