January 5, 2011
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The Daily News
1 Great days!
2 I have never worked as hard as I have this past week.
3 Somehow, I finished ALL my grading, and am now poised and ready to take on the remainder of this amazing year.
4 Whoops.
5 I was actually referring to last year, which was one of the spunkiest, jolly years I’ve had, well, in years!
6 And THIS year has rocked me, changed me, and made my life joyous and “trending up.”
7 Ah, I love everything right now.
8 Forgive me.
9 But our grades are due TODAY at 4 p.m. and listen: I ALREADY have them in the system, and am finally liberated beyond words.
10 Does anybody care?
11 I wouldn’t imagine.
12 But to me, well I’m personally at the entire top of my game.
13 So, lovin’ it!
14 I love getting up in the morning.
15 I love going in each day on top of everything, and smiling and being inspired by my wonderful students.
16 And most of all, I love having time, finally, and hopefully, forever!
17 For a while there, I thought everything had gotten completely out of control. I had mountains and mountains of papers to grade. I complained, groused, and still stayed on them. Working honors classes is wonderful, but it is also challenging in so many ways.
18 The one thing I didn’t expect was the high turnover rate of grading mountains and mountains of papers.
19 It’s an amazing challenge, and over the holiday, I sacrificed many days to get the job done, and yesterday I finally turned the corner!
20 Last night my stats: amount of grades that needed entering: none. Amount of papers I needed to grade: none.
21 First time in six years, man.
22 And I’m feelin’ goooooood!
23 Sometimes life tries to climb all over you.
24 You just keep swingin’ dude.
25 But not at every pitch.
26 The Giants taught me that this year.
27 Torture.
28 And more torture.
29 But just have patience at the plate.
30 Works in baseball.
31 Don’t swing at the first pitch.
32 You wait. You have patience at the plate. Take time. Look at things more carefully.
33 I actually used it in dieting, not that I’ve done that much recently.
34 But patience at the plate.
35 Even if you don’t know baseball, you know that it is the secret to having a little game.
36 It also literally works in losing weight.
37 Haha, patience at the plate!
38 Dumb joke.
39 But who does dumber jokes?
40 AnywayZ…
41 I fell asleep early last night, like around 8:30.
42 I had conquered all my work early, came home, relaxed a bit, and then gave in to luscious, beautiful sleep.
43 And yeah, I awakened at around 11:30, but only to polish this little ditty up, and to stretch and yawn a bit.
44 I’ve lost a few pounds in the last two weeks, and around a million pounds in stress.
45 I cut my hair, and have seriously youthened.
46 I’m beginning to like healthy.
47 For the first time in around six years, I looked in the mirror and wasn’t really frightened.
48 Trending up, man.
49 I really want to look polished and good for Caitlin’s wedding.
50 I didn’t look good, mind you. Those days seem to be behind me.
51 But for the first time in quite a while, I didn’t look bad.
52 Most times I really don’t look!
53 Moving on, Part the First: I head the Raiders fired Head Coach Tom Cable yesterday, and hired Hugh Jackman.
54 I thought it was a bit weird that they’d hire an actor, but that’s Al Davis for you.
55 Moving on, Part the Second: And the Niners hire of Trent Baalke as GM is WAY interesting. Smart sports’ forcasters see the Niners possibly landing Stanford’s Jim Harbaugh before the sun sets tonight. What people forget is that Harbaugh was one of Bill Walsh’s guys, and has a Stanford connection that is in tune with a new stadium, and lots of other perks. Money will talk, and I’m convinced that the Niners have a HUGE chance of landing the hottest coach in college football.
56 What would REALLY sweeten the deal would be if Baalke somehow makes some trades and gets Andrew Luck. With a little bit of Luck, the Niners win three to four more games easily.
57 I could be wrong, but I don’t think so. I call it. End of today, done deal.
58 And I just wanted to share that.
59 Bold prediction.
60 And?
61 I’ll see you soon.
62 Peace.
~H~
