November 9, 2010
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And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear.
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.---Roger Waters, Brain Damage
The Daily News
1 There's all this music playing, and the frosty air just now froze my fingers.2 How out of sorts.
3 Wasn't the last day of summer last week?
4 How does it happen?
5 Ah, I dunno.
6 It's 12:06. That's after midnight.
7 I'm out of sorts.
8 I'm not really sure what that means. I mean, I KNOW what it means, but I don't know why it means it.
9 Right now I don't know a lot of things, because music is playing, and my fingers are frozen, I swear to you.
10 I just finished all my grading, and the Flight of the Valkyries is playing sort of loudly in the other room.
11 Same song that sorta played somewhere when the Giants won it all.
12 Only while I was winning my own personal World Series, I had The Birth of a Nation playing on the teevee.
13 Strange, strange, racist movie, considered one of the greatest of the silents.
14 D.W. Griffith's purported masterpiece.
15 Also a favorite of the Klan.
16 Go figure.
17 I left it on, just to goof on the Lincoln scenes.
18 If you've seen that Geico commercial with Lincoln being brutally honest to that woman, it is clearly copped from this terribly strange "artsy" film.
19 Oh, I imagine.
20 Just horribly strange.
21 Lincoln.
22 I went out into the yard in order to look to the stars for inspiration, and my fingers got frostbit.
23 I went inside to brush my teeth, and almost knocked a tooth out with the toothbrush.
24 Crazuh.
25 I fought all year to keep ups with the grading, and I think I got it. I just have to double check numbers, my goal six weeks ago to get it all done tonight.
26 I'm actually a day or two early here, for the first time in my ridiculous life.
27 To a teacher, every six weeks we have the equivalent of four finals going on, and a relentless, ruthless deadline. At the Chill it's borderline madness.
28 I hit the ground running this school year, and had loads of work to grade from the git go.
29 I deliberately don't work every single night because I have wanted to get to bed early. To me, it is important to give my mind, body, and spirit to staying alive, organized, and on it for each day of lessons.
30 I succeeded this entire year, staying pumped up and super active every single day.
31 Today I'm not so sure. I haven't been up this late in a long, long time. I don't ever want to drag and look exhausted to the students, so each day this year I've jumped into each class fresh as a daisy.
32 But I conquered this six weeks, at least I hope I did. I've never had larger challenges, and somehow, by some miracle, it all worked last night.
33 And the film continues to play loudly in the other room, with tons of classical music that has brought in a lot of minor chords to major songs.
34 It's just all so WEIRD.
35 AnywayZ...
36 We have just three days this week, due in large part to Armistice Day, and it's strange doppelganger Veteran's Day.
37 They've two-ed it up so that we get Thursday AND Friday off this week.
38 They're playing this tune that sounds like "Oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light..." but it has minor chords traveling through it. If you know music, they've made a minor chord on the word "can", giving the entire feel of the Anthem one of brutal angst.
39 Such an odd little night.
40 I feel like a madmen with frozen fingers, and with music.
41 I feel like my joints need some fire.
42 Whoops.
43 That came out wrong. The lunatic is in the hall.
44 I'm hungry. The lunatic is in my head.
45 Time to go. I have a saloon to run.
46 Have a GRAND Tuesday.
47 So, so weird.
48 We're all mad.
49 Peace.
~H~
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