October 21, 2011
-
The Daily News1 Happy Frideeeeeee!!!
2 I still enjoy Frideeeeeeez even though someone somewhere has shortened weekends. The older I get, the shorter the weekends.
3 When I was younger, weekends lasted much longer. Is there any doubt?
4 If I would eat a Popsicle, for example, it would take around a week, as I would try to get it done before it would get all melty and gooey. But they lasted, or so it seems.
5 Everything stretched out on weekends. I'd play baseball with my friends, and we'd have triple-headers and still have time to go to Enzo's delicatessen for salami sandwiches that cost a quarter.
6 I'm not making this up. We'd buy a little salami and a sourdough roll and it would make the heaven of Saturday's that much more heavenly.
7 AND we'd have the remainder of the Saturday as well as the Sunday to enjoy, and they all lasted forever.
8 I wonder who changed weekends to being such short periods of time?
9 I wish they'd change it back.
10 Moving on, Part 1: So...Muammar Gaddafi walks into a bar...
11 I thought I'd see that headline a bajillion years ago. I dreaded the day it would happen for fear of not knowing how to spell his name.
12 Didn't have much time to scout that story down, but I really didn't think that whatever story was mainstream was true anyway.
13 The media lies all the time. <yawn>.
14 Libya. Oil. Don't believe anything beyond that.
15 Anyway, I was a bit indifferent to the news. That's becoming more and more common ever time a story breaks. The mainstream news' credibility is gone in my estimation.
16 Moving on, Part 2: I heard we had two reasonably strong earthquakes yesterday.
17 I do believe that, because people told me. I didn't feel any, but I was pretty mobahl yesterday.
18 The fearmongers immediately came out in droves when heard about it. Even when the media is telling us the truth they throw fear around like cow dung.
19 Ah, vell.
20 I ain't trippin'.
21 Moving on, Part the Thoid: Been a fun week though, that's for sure. My students have been enjoying The Sixth Sense, or at least it seems like it. There's always some student who won't like anything you do. But overall it seems like a pretty quiet and riveted crowd.
22 That's fine. To the guys who don't like it, I guess I could send them into the hallway with a small desk and a gerund worksheet.
23 I think I would have loved something like that when I was a student. Not the small desk and gerund worksheet. The Sixth Sense.
24 But they hadn't yet invented movies back then.
25 Actually, for the one moron out there who believed that, allow me to straighten you out.
26 Yeah, they actually HAD movies when I was a kid. And no, they weren't inside a wooden box with a hand crank.
27 And as students, we always LOVED when we would have movies.
28 AND there was always one guy who wouldn't like the movies.
29 If you brought Jesus down to do magic tricks for the class, those guys wouldn't like that either.
30 Um...dude.
31 Nobody said that school was supposed to be entertaining. Once in a while you have to let down your hair and have a little fun in life.
32 I used to have a student who would say this, almost on a daily basis: "Stupit, man..."
33 I recall the guy never doing an assignment, but each time I'd give him an assignment, he'd moan, lift his head off his hands and say, "Stupit, man..."
34 I'd point out to him that he would moan and groan about every assignment, but that it honestly never affected him, because he never did them anyway.
35 He'd turn, a tad embarrassed, shake his head, and repeat, "Stupit, man..."
36 I wish I could remember his name. I do remember his face. His eyes used to close every time his head would go lateral.
37 He's also become somewhat a legend in my house.
38 I often wonder what happens to guys THAT negative. Fortunately, over the years I've seen a lot of really negative students turn it around and live perfectly normal lives, whatever that entails.
39 Welp, I think I'll cut it off early, it being a Frideeeeeee and all.
40 I have to extend the weekend somehow.
41 So have fun. YB plays EV tonight at around 7:30 on our field. As fun as it sounds, I don't know that I'll be anywhere near the place.
42 But I might.
43 AnywayZ.
44 Have a great weekend.
45 Stretch that field and make it a nice long one. Play a little baseball. Throw a Frisbee. Eat a salami sandwich from La Villa on Lincoln. It's a lot like Enzo's.
46 Live life.
47 Love life.
48 Peace.
~H~
