August 11, 2013
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DAY 2: ANYBODY LOOKIN’?
The Daily News
1 ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫Well the first days are the hardest days, don’t you worry anymore♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ = )
2 Okay so whoever decided to start school on a Tuesday needs his or her head examined. Like that? “His or her.” Captain Correctness.
3 Today is Wednesday already.
4 I have to come in with some sort of magical lesson, even though I just floated in from summer.
5 What lesson?
6 How about Tuggle 2, which is a spelling rule. It goes like this: given a word with two syllables (table, empty, revert, etc.) and the accent is on the second syllable (e.g. in the list I just gave, “revert” is the only one where the accent is on the second syllable. You say “re-VERT” but you don’t say “ta-BULL” or “em-TEE.” Simple, right?
7 So let’s start again: given a word with two syllables and the accent is on the second syllable, AND the word ends in a consonant/vowel/consonant…(examples: occur, commit, admit, etc. you double the final consonant before adding a suffix, or more to the word. “occurrence, committable, admittance. Just memorize this rule. Look it over for a few minutes until it sinks in, and it will be with you forever!!!
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9 Okay I have officially assuaged my guilt at not being as actively “on it” as I will be within days.
10 I promise that I’ll evermore be on it like a sonnet.
11 Oh, come on!
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13 English rocks.
14 I’ll never do that again.
15 I swear.
16 Moving on, Part 1: fajfkds;fkdsjfkl;sdjfdsjfkdsjfdsfjs
17 That’s a sort of doodlefast version of my first day teaching, 2013.
18 I had lots of visitors early, and LOTS of fun!
19 Short day. It was remarkably, well, short.
20 I had just finished my second class of the day and shouted at my class, “Your next class is…lunch!”
21 Lunch after third period. That is the YB equivalent of lunch after second period.
22 I skipped lunch, hopped across the hall to visit my friend Gwen, and we laughed and waited out the seemingly endless lunch period.
23 Sooooooo weird.
24 If you are a person with a normal job, you don’t have lunch at your morning coffee break, right? It was like that.
25 I got back, finished the next three periods, and my day was done.
26 Ba-BAM!
27 I then checked my emails.
28 I must have had 726 emails, and yes I’m exaggerating.
29 Most wanted some sort of immediate action, which I had little time to do. I was spending my prep period planning some things with another teacher. By the time I was done with all that, and with stopping at the store to get printers’ ink for my school printer, I was on my way home. I was starved; the dog was starved, and I was fogged. Surrealistically speaking.
30 Don’t get old. You get foggy.
31 Let me qualify: Don’t get THAT old.
32 Moving on, Part 2: fjfdsklfjdfjsdlkfjsdfjsdfsdkl
33 What was I just talking about?
34 About what was I just talking?
35 Oh yeah.
36 It’s official.
37 Property Virgins is more entertaining than the 2012 World Champion San Francisco Giants.
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39 Honest.
40 Don’t get old.
40 Last night I watched the Giants’ game right up to the drizzle.
41 Took me exactly a millisecond to begin channel surfing.
42 After a ridiculously quick skim, I settled on Property Virgins.
43 It’s about people who have no idea about buying houses buying houses.
44 One episode kept my interest for around five minutes because they had the best possible affordable house practically in their mitts, and kept grumping about trivial things.
45 I root for young people trying to get into houses, don’t get me wrong. I totally get it. But when these morons let a great deal slip through their hands, I almost think, “Good!”
46 That’s my social media ogre coming out.
47 Shouldn’t I cheer for anyone, especially young people, who are simply trying to build on some dreams?
48 The goodly person in me says, “Yes, I DO cheer for everybody to be happy and to get nice things and to live dreams.”
49 But we are so geared to good guys v. bad buys that we assume that snooty people are always bad guys.
50 Maybe they’re just snoots.
51 Moving on, Part the Thoid: Anybody lookin’?
52 Same day.
53 Ever do that?
51 You wake up screaming at like four a.m. You go back to sleep at six. It’s an excuse to close your eyes. You get up. You take a shower. You mumble to no one in particular, “Same day.”
52 You get through the morning, go into the break room, get coffee and a banana, and you drop the banana on the floor, causing your coffee to spill all over your shirt. You go into the rest room and soak your shirt with water and try to clean it with toilet tissue. Little balls of wet toilet tissue cling to your shirt. You again grumble to no one in particular, “Same day.”
53 @DN readers: You get the idea.
54 Yesterday morning, early, I had to go have my blood tested for one thing or another. I decided to go in early, before school. I got in and out pretty swiftly. I did a few chores, and before I knew it I arrived at school.
55 Somewhere in there the first day of school flew by. The dog had three dinners. The Giants drizzled. I cooked dinner. I watched Property Virgins. I wrote this. It’s now time for bed.
56 Same day.
57 The sprinklers just shot on out front. I am now in the present. At least the present last night.
58 I keep meaning to change the timer. I keep forgetting.
59 The teevee just channel-surfed to Godfather II. It is my fave Godfather. It has scenes from Tahoe. Last summer I floated past the Corleone mansion. In real life, it is called Fleur du Loc. Flower of the Lake. I floated around it in an inflatable raft. Awesome. I said a Hail Mary.
60 It’s too late for me to watch it right now. I own it anyway.
61 Still.
62 Same day. At least last night it was. Now it is Wednesday. You are now in the present. I hope you enjoyed your ride.
63 You guys have an awesome day.
64 Forget all of this the second you’re done reading. It’s all a lot of uppity pish-posh anyway.
65 Stay safe.
66 See you again.
~H~
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