2 Anyone down?
3 We're "rolling out" the new tests that will be used for the next two thousand or so years.
4 Hmmmm.
5 Let's see...
6 Nope.
7 No avoiding it.
8 I'll go in.
9 They want me to get there a half-hour before school starts so I can get schooled on stuff.
10 The deal is I'm not giving a test in my room. My job is going to be checking on attendance and being a bathroom escort.
11 Fortunately for me I took around six or seven classes in college that trained me for those things.
12
13 I count my blessings this morn.
14 I think of how stressful this entire thing must be to nearly everybody else and I feel I have dodged a metaphorical bullet.
15 Yeesh.
16 I hope I didn't just jinx myself.
17 Probably not.
18
19 Oh well. Kudos to the people who rode this wave all the way to this day.
20 I nearly went out of my mind the past few weeks wondering when I would get back control of my lessons.
21 Did I mention that I was called for jury duty on April 1?
22 No fooling.
23 <groan>
24 I am all for civic duty.
25 I'll do it.
26 It's quite liable to sink the rest of the school year.
27 Or not.
28 Quite a blow.
29 Yeesh.
30 I can't stall it into the summer. I can't even consider it. Gotta be done now.
31 Welp, those are the realities.
32 Moving On, Part One: When's baseball again? Last week? Australia? Dodgers won???
33 I keep threatening and I am now ready to jump off the hood of a Buick.
34 Anybody lookin'?
35 Ah just kiddin'.
36 The good end is I'm caught up on paperwork, or at least reasonably caught up.
37 Plus a student asked me yesterday: "Mr. H, are you going to get Mr. Spoon?" He was referring to a sub for when I have jury duty.
38 "Who's that, some Disney character?" I asked. I was thinking Beauty and the Beast or something.
39 I had never heard of a sub named Mr. Spoon, but I asked the inquisitive fellow if the guy was any good.
40 Around five minutes later he called me over to his desk.
41 "This is Mr. Spoon," he said. I looked a the picture on his phone and it was this monstrous guy with ridiculous muscles. He was wearing a Speedo. It wasn't pretty.
42 " I never gave anyone permission to use my picture!" I said.
43 Polite laughter.
44 I laughed. He was one of those guys that you could Google but would never want to look at for more than three seconds.
45 Last night I got home, thought about the entire day, and about today when I remembered Mr. Spoon.
46 I decided to Google the guy. This guy came up:
47 Ten reasons I am never absent. One picture.
48 Oh sometimes I think I must go mad!
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49 I gotta get another job.
50 Anybody lookin'?
51 Gottago.
52 Wish me luck.
53 Wish all of us luck.
54 See you again.
55 Peace.
~H~
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