May 17, 2013

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  The Daily News

  1   Oh, Warriors.
  

  2   Thank you for an amazing run. 

  3   If ever a team gave everything they could, you did it in front of the entire nation.

  4   You don’t always have to win in order to be winners. 

  5    We all salute you and the great games we will forever enjoy.

  6   Thanks again for an amazing run.

  7   Moving on, Part Two: Sharks.

  8   You’re still playing. Here is a word of advice: Don’t lose ever again to a team whose initials are L.A.

  9   Ever.

  10  Especially at home.

  11  We still love you.

  12  But dudes.

  13  Just don’t.

  14   Let’s get that job done at home. 

  15   Moving on, Part Three: Giants’ pitching. It’s okay; I’ve submitted it to the lost and found.

  16   All is well. We can score ten runs a game to compensate.

  17   Argh.

  18   We are becoming the kings of come-from-behind wins. 

  19   This is not a good thing.

  20   I’ll still take first place and seven games over .500.

  21   But dudes.

  22   Ah, nevermind.

  23   Moving on, Part Four: On my end, I had a winning afternoon yesterday.

  24   First, I finished off getting graded papers into the hands of the students, and out of my cubbies. 

  25   Okay, so it’s not a game-winning three by Steph, but metaphorically, that was a great shot.

  26   I also got all those number-two pencil tests into the system and out of my sight. 

  27   Sixteen bazillion pieces of paper suddenly disappeared from my room, allowing me to break down an eight-foot table that held them.

  28   This cleared the way for a guitar stand, a guitar, mic, amp, and a couple of Starbucksy lamps to appear in the front of my room. 

  29   The Cafe Verona magically appeared yesterday afternoon. My room cleaned up, and now looks pretty snazzy.

  30   I  strapped on my guitar and practiced a couple of songs that I am going to sing for my classes today.

  31   I am going to sing Simon and Garfunkel’s America in a higher key than I have previously sung it, because I like how the guitar sounds in the background.

  32   I’ll have to sing a bit in a falsetto voice. 

  33   I once had a student who had a false setto teeth. 

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  35   Anybody looking?

  36   It does get a bit high, but I was able to reach all the notes. I see it as a sort of tribute to the amazing voice of Art Garfunkel. 

  37   Last year I would have cracked, but my experience of having a cameo as Teen Angel in Grease last year gave me a larger range, in main part because of our vocal instructor, Rachel.
  

  38   I don’t remember her last name and don’t have a program handy here in the seven a.m.’s.

  39   I am also going to perform an rare gem called Punky’s Dilemma, which I did last year during my Cafe Verona breakfast. It is a song all about breakfast, sort of similar to Jack Johnson’s Banana Pancakes. I  think breakfast is a great theme for a song. I’m thinking of writing a song about bacon, since bacon is suddenly hip. 

  40   I doubt it will reach the top 40, or that it will ever get written. 

  41   Every time I get inspired to do music, something flies into my life making it impossible to practice. 

  42   I guess that’s just an excuse, because a real musician knows how to get around those sorts of things. 

  43   I play guitar. I don’t claim to be a musician. 

  44   Anybody who know music knows the difference. 

  45   I play thanking the Lord for my fingers. I can’t use picks very well. 

  46   I also play reasonably quietly now. Paul McCartney talked about that once on some teevee special. He talked about how you can trick the listener into thinking you played a note that you didn’t by syncopating. 

  47   He also talked about how he is always nervous when he performs. 

  48   Amazing. 

  49   I’m not nervous today. I think I sounded great yesterday, although I had the  mic turned up a bit loud in order to get a little echo. 

  50   I should probably upgrade my amp. 

  51   I think I got it at Target for around a hundred bucks. 

  52   I like it ‘cuz it’s tiny and therefore easily transportable. 

  53   It’s this La Bamba thing I have. 

  54   Anyway, I’ll try to win a championship today. My room is clean, it looks like a Starbuck’s, I’m going to play and sing a couple of fun songs for my students, and then we will enjoy The Taming of the Shrew, which I have shown at the end of every school year since I first started teaching. 

  55   I have shifted and turned for every lunatic around, and I am STILL going to end this school year on my own terms. 

  56   I will win my own personally stupid championship today. 

  57   Anybody looking?

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  59   I gottago. Wish me luck.

  60   Have a GREAT weekend.

  61   See you again.

  62   Peace.

  ~H~

   

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