May 18, 2011
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The Daily News1 After the Sharks started getting beat up, I drifted off to sleep last night. I'm not really into self-flagellation.
2 No team should lose like that, and no fans should have to suffer that sort of a loss. They looked like a kid with freckles getting trounced by the neighborhood bully, and being unable to control his subsequent tantrum. Ridiculous loss, ridiculous game, ridiculous lack of dignity, lack of class and lack of composure. We've all had those moments, and they are pretty ugly.REALLY ugly. Not pretty.
3 Fortunately for the Sharks, there are some of us out there who don't give up on teams. Look what Detroit did to us, and we still got past them.
4 So chin up, Sharks' fans. It isn't what you wanted to see, but it is still only one game.
5 And yes, we do need a miracle, since the Sharks seem to be head cases these days.
6 And still, they are where they are because they have talent.
7 What they need is a psychiatrist. They deserved to be placed on time-out seventeen thousand times last night. Absolutely embarrassing.
8 But I'm still down with the locals.
9 Playing home is an entirely different thing, so we'll just have to keep the faith. But dudes. Don't make it tough to root for you by being public spectacles. That was really a shameful loss, and I don't say that about many teams or games. But there was no excuse. None.
10 Moving on, Part the First: Meanwhile...the Giants lost a lead and still came back to win last night, against the Dodgers no less.
11 I'm a bit angry with myself because I devoted last night entirely to the Sharks, and left my Giants to fend for themselves.
12 THEY managed to win, and to win big in a game that seems unimportant.
13 But in baseball, even one game can make the difference when it gets to the end of the season, so I take nothing for granted except that they have had the strength and brains to win the seemingly unimportant games. They also managed a six-game win streak with wet noodles for bats.
14 That's the difference between a good team and a great team.
15 It's cliche, but you have to be in it to win it.
16 The Sharks don't seem to get that. They still have hope. So much is in the attitude.
17 Anyway, all I can do as a sports' fan is to root for the home team.
18 It's not always easy.
19 Moving on, Part the First: I kept thinking that yesterday was Thursday.
20 Yeesh.
21 Today is Thursday. This week is eternal.
22 Yesterday I started taking stuff out of my classroom for the summer.
23 It feels so unusual to have the school year ending this early, especially with the colder weather.
24 But yesterday really hit me. My classroom is starting to look like a house or apartment when you are moving.
25 I have boxes everywhere, and papers stacking up to the ceiling, chaos all over the place, and miles to go before I sleep.
26 Everything is pretty strange. The students got yearbooks yesterday, which is usually the beginning of the end for teaching anything.
27 What's really strange is that it is mid-May, yet summer vacay begins next week.
28 We had a meeting yesterday to say good-bye to each other.
29 People who might be laid off stood with flowers, and we applauded.
30 Retirees told us all to fight the good fight.
31 It was quite surreal.
32 I still have two days of real teaching left, but it just doesn't seem like it.
33 This is by far the oddest ending to a school year ever.
34 I just did lights for a choir concert the other night. It feels like mid-March.
35 Strange days.
36 Well, I think the Sharks lost horribly last night, and that the Giants won.
37 I think I worked on a film yesterday with the AACI students, and with Thuy Ann and Sonny. I think it was a meeting of the minds.
38 I think I had a fruit/veggie shake, salmon, and wild rice.
39 I also think I'm in the Twilight Zone.
40 Did yesterday exist?
41 It is always strange at the end of the school year.
42 I think I'm going to pull the covers back over me and get safe and cozy.
43 You have a great day.
44 I'll just walk through it.
45 My students still have a bubble test tomorrow.
46 Nothing is real.
47 And nothing to get hung about.
48 Except the Sharks.
49 Oh, and the end of the world, which supposedly is Saturday.
50 I ain't trippin'.
51 Peace.
~H~
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