November 19, 2010
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The Daily News
1 So here we are. It's FRIDEEEEEEEE!!!
2 I actually had an entire other DN written, but it sang with conspiracy theories, Big Brother, and all sorts of other horrors.
3 I think going to an all-day seminar with intellectuals caused it.
4 I need a Bufferin.
5 Actually, the seminar, or workshop, or whatever one would call it, worked pretty well. I give props to the ESUHSD for the support they gave a bunch of us today.
6 Good stuff, won't bore you with it.
7 We even got off early!
8 Which of course resulted in some crazuh teacher almost backing into me in her rush to get out.
9 Ah, wilderness!
10 Eugene O' Neill play.
11 Who cares anyway?
12 It's FRIDEEEEE, and time to let loose!
13 Except that I have hit a point in life where I can't let loose.
14 Gotta correct papers, and to plan.
15 It's all good.
16 Moving on, Part the First: I don't always get things.
17 Earlier yesterday, some HUGE SUV, or SOB, can't remember the guy's name, flew across several lanes without signaling.
18 This time I wasn't almost killed, but I wanted to catch a glimpse of an idiot, so I sorta pulled close, but not too close.
19 He had a bumper sticker that said this: "I don't trust the liberal media!"
20 Of COURSE you don't, ya moron. You have NO idea of anything, and it clearly showed in your driving.
21 The, I got into the left-turn lane from Capitol Expressway to Tully Road, and some guy in a BMW got caught at the light. He decided to get OUT of his car, pop the hatchback or whatev, go into a saddle bag, pull out a baggie of white powder, and disappear back to the wheel just before the light changed.
22 Right in front of me!
23 I imagined he must have had a bag of Cheerios, and needed a touch of sugar to make them sparkle and turn real.
24 It's a madhouse out there, I tellya.
25 Anyway, I made it to the school, met my sub, got stuff handled, and inched my way back to the Capitol Expressway, eventually parking it at the District Office.
26 I went in reluctantly knowing that nobody was going to tell me how to teach.
27 I was wrong.
28 They came through famously, with amazing lesson ideas and cool pointers.
29 We even got out an hour early!
30 So I'm pretty pumped. Most of what they suggested I do already, but it was still nice to hang out with really intelligent people who knew what they were doing.
31 You won't hear me say stuff like this too much, but I must say, the workshop proper worked famously.
32 When I got home, I wrote up a DN that was radical and ridiculous, so I decided to pop it into a draft mode. I think I was just bugged by how bothered I was that students care less and less about learning, or the language, or even about talking to people face-to-face, like human beings were meant to. Of course we as teachers were bugged by all the Twitters, Facebooks, emails, and all the rest of communication by keyboard.
33 Once I got home, it was pretty much business as usual, even though my radical side was ready to rescue the world from all corruption.
34 I decided that I was also corrupt, so why bother?
35 Haha, YB?
36 People used to say that about YB. "Why bother?"
37 Because I love YB, and always will!
38 Stand up, and fight the power, YB'ers!
39 Moving on, Part the First: I had an interesting coincidence at around 4:15 this morning. I received an email from Paul Long III wondering why he hadn't gotten the last few DN's. That's been happening to a few people since I switched the DN over to gmail.
40 So I sent him every DN since Monday, including Wednesday's Beatles' one and yesterday's Buffering one.
41 Right above HIS email was an email from Kohl's. Here was the heading:
From Subject
Kohl's Knock, knock you there? We've got a secret.
42 Yesterday's DN featured Paul and WAY cool knock knock joke. Wednesday's Beatles' DN went out to Facebook with the headline, "Do you want to know a secret?"
43 The same Paul who played a critical role in the Heidi Chronz. Speaking of coincidences, we have a trifecta. On the back of this morning's sports' section in the Merc News, there was a blackjack hand with>>>a nine of clubs, forming an H, and an ace of diamonds, which I really think I am. ; ) <-------------sideways humble winky guy.
44 That's THE nine and a one in anybody's book.
45 Anyway, the DN hit a few bumps like that. For the most part, it involves use of the most recent email addresses, so if you haven't been getting the DN lately, send me an update on your most recent email address and I'll try to get it all smoothed out this weekend.
46 Moving on, Part the Second: Okay then. Well, it's Frideeeeeeee!
47 You down?
48 I sure am, even though when I awoke this morning early I thought it was Saturday already! Ah, vell...
49 So let's climb safely into this weekend, and put all the rest behind.
50 You have a good one.
51 Peace.
~H~
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