May 1, 2013
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The Daily News
1 Can it be Wednesday already?2 Did the Woyers ALMOST come back last night?
3 Did the Giants help the Warrior fans the same way the Warriors help the Giants’ fans?
4 Is anybody really worried?
5 Everything will be what it will be.
6 Moving on, Part One: I think I live in the world of sports because of all the idiocy that seems to
be happening on a daily basis in the real news.7 I have never in my life seen so many horrid things happening in so short a period of time.
8 It makes me wonder.
9 It simply makes me wonder.
10 I’ll leave it at that.
11 Moving on, Part Two: I’ve fallen immediately back into being a chronic insomniac.
12 That didn’t take long.
13 I again tried grading papers and planning lessons until 8 o’ clock last night but got caught up in the excitement of Bay Area sports.
14 It’s exhausting.
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But it’s a good kind of exhausting.16 The only drawback to this is that we are well into a Wednesday.
17 Wednesdays are meeting days.
18 You know how I so adore Wednesdays.
19 And how I adore meetings.
20 Meh.
21 Moving on, Part Three: Anybody looking?
22 Somebody told me yesterday that we have just seventeen more days of school.
23 That’s almost impossible to believe.
24 I might sound like a madman, but I’m not quite ready for the end of the school year.
25 I have thousands more of things to teach my students.
26 The realization that all this hard work I have put in is coming to an end in some way bothers.
27 I think most teachers get these reservations when the year winds down.
28 I think about things I never got around to, and how I want somehow to deliver all the goods in a shortened period of time.
29 I’m also thinking that I’m not going to be able to do all I wanted to do.
30 I’m also quite certain that on the first day of summer I won’t really give any of it a second thought.
31 For now, I have to pick and choose my choicest lessons.
32 As an old geezer, I know I have plenty.
33 Tricks of the trade.
34 Goodness.
35 <BOINGGGGG!>Three of those days are finals.
36 Hmmm.
37 If we’re going to have the most enjoyable lessons in the next few weeks, I had better step up my game.
38 The trouble is I have started an almost new lesson.
39 Just yesterday I prepared new materials, and am excited about bringing it.
40 I’m trying to do a mini-mini unit on Julius Caesar.
41 It’s going to work, but I also have my annual Cafe Verona, a day of poetry and open mics and guitar.
42 Sorry.
43 Just rambling.
44 This is the way teachers think at the end of the year.
45 When I was in college, I wrote a series of blank books to myself. Same process as I am demonstrating here.
46 Not diaries, mind you just simple blank books. I called them account books.
47 I called the series Thinking Aloud.
48 It was more myself simply sorting out stuff on paper.
49 I wound up with four or five books.
50 I have no idea whatever happened to them.
51 Cool title. Hey. <looking both ways> There’s a double meaning in that.
52 Today’s DN is a bit like those books.
53 Sometimes habits we gain when young spill over.
54 Meh.
55 We are well into the four a.m.
56 Oh well. I think I’m ready to walk boldly into Wednesday.
57 Some old movie is on, and somebody just said, “Good-bye, Heidi.”
58 I can’t make this stuff up. I better go.
59 Have a GREAT Wednesday.
60 See you again.
61 Peace.
~H~
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