Wednesday, March 5, 2014

The DN






1  Happy Belated Fat Tuesday! Happy Belated Anything!

2    I made gumbo last night in honor of the only Tuesday worth a darned.

3   Ironically it didn't even occur to me that yesterday was Mardi Gras until I read about it on Facebook.

4   REALLY ironic is that I am smack dab in the middle of having my students research and construct Renaissance masks as an offshoot of Romeo and Juliet AND Much Ado!

5   I say REALLY ironic because I tend to teach seasonally. At the beginning of the school year, for example, my students put magazines together for Back-to-School night. The materials for doing this usually are just after the Back-to-School clearance sales. 

6   Halloween they do ghost stories and I do my Heidi stuff. 

7   Valentine's Day begins Romeo and Juliet, and on and on.

8   Mardi Gras was never a big deal in my neighborhood so I never saw it as a large celebration. 

9   I've never been to New Orleans even though my parents told me it was one of their fave places anywhere. 

10  All these years we've done the masks and all and I never even tied the two things in. 

11  My classroom is festooned with Renaissance masks, and the students are presenting their new masks this Thursday. 

12  So Happy Belated Fat Tuesday everyone! Woo hoo.

13  I've heard rumors about Mardi Gras, enough to keep me away from Louisiana at least 'til summer!

14   Anybody lookin'?

15   I guess this could end my lifelong pursuit of the elimination of Tuesday as a day of the week. 

16   Maybe we could keep just that one Tuesday as a fond remembrance. 

17   I'd ask for any thoughts but I never believe that anyone really reads this nonsense.

18  The blogger Gods or whoevuh always show me all these charts and graphs that claim people from all over the world flock to my work here. 

19   Yeah and I'm Pope Francis.

20   It's fun.

21   Moving On, Part One: Last night we were watching some HDTV show where people buy houses, flip them, and cash in when I saw one of my ex-students on the show. 

22  Ever see someone you know on teevee?

23   It's fun. I almost bragged. "I KNOW that guy!"

24   It was this kid named Manley, great kid, well I guess adult celeb now!

25   I did a few double takes, but it was him. Really fun, good to see he has an eye for making money. He didn't learn that from me.

26  Very strange, but lots of fun. I got a kick out of it. 

27  So if you are somehow reading this, congrats guy. 

28   Moving On, Part Two: Anybody lookin'?

29   Looks like I'm going to be tied to grading papers for the next week.

30  I gave a pretty big essay and it is trickling in at locomotive pace. 

31   Everything gives. 

32   I guess that's one of those things that only another teacher would get. 

33   We get teacher's neck. That's where you sit down and don't look up from reading for six hours at a stretch. 

34   Ah, it's all good.

35   I had time to throw together some hot gumbo before settling in, so we had all the good smells and jazz going and all. 

36   I want to thank the good people of Louisiana for sending a party my way. 

37   I spent the night reading the history of Renaissance masks and techniques. I learn lots from the kids. 

38   So here we are in the thick of it. I almost added, "like hot gumbo" but decided against it. 


39   I didn't get a chance to shoot buckets yesterday afternoon, but I was pretty awesome throughout the day chucking paper into trashcans. 

40  Great way to clean a room. I hit some wild shots. 

41  Okay I do need to go. 

42   It's technically last night as I write this so it had to be assembled and sent off quickly.

43   I'm down.

44   Fat Wednesday.

45   Doesn't sound right. 

46   Wednesdays are meeting days. 

47   Two days in a row I want to jump off the hood of a Buick.

48   Not to die, just to jump off a Buick.

49   Yeesh. 

50   Thank God or Joe-the-Bear that an absolutely hideous rat-pack flick is on TCM. 

51  They just cut to a scene with Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis, Jr. talking on the phone. Right outside the window a bunch of guys are playing basketball. 

52   Don't get me goin'.

53   Gottago.

54   See you again.

55   Peace.


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