1 Wow.
2 Other worldly.
3 I tried last night to report yesterday's activities when an avalanche flew at me.
4 Ah, throw it at me!
5 No but feREALZ tho...
6 <dotdotdot>
7 Ellipsis.
8 You know how it is.
9 fgjkllfksdkajfadl.
10 Okay so here's the skinny: last night I came home from what I thought was a pretty good second day.
11 They are ALWAYS more telling than a first day.
12 Everything worked, not quite as well, but there's a lot to be said for room crickets.
13 Happens.
14 AnywayZ...
15 It all worked. Great day, albeit with a few more awkward silent moments.
16 I'm pretty sure it had something to do with two strange schedules in a row.
17 Opening Day we had a really odd schedule, and yesterday we were on what they call a "collaboration" schedule, which we chose long ago to do every Wednesday.
18 Our staff voted on that one. I was against it. I always thought that collaboration time should be spend on Mondays, which YB used to do.
19 They still might.
20 Mondays make sense, since the rhythm of the week is automatically disrupted anyway.
21 My theory is that students don't really get into a rhythm until Tuesday, so that the best learning takes place on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
23 It's more difficult on the teachers but makes much more sense in terms of continuity of lessons, learning and comprehension.
24 Back-to-back minimum days might work at the very beginning of the school year, when everything is in flux, but it still turned everyone upside down and inside out.
25 I talked with a few teachers after school yesterday and all of us felt as though we had been thrown into the spin cycle on a clothes dryer.
26 We came out pretty clean but we walked on a world that spun.
27 Today is the first real schedule we have.
28 I went to bed last night at around 9:30, spinning around from having watched some really odd TCM movies. When people say there's no such thing as too much of a good thing I...
29 Elipsis...
30 Series of dots...
31
32 Anybody lookin'?
33 I awakened at precisely two a.m. with severe dry-mouth due to popcorn.
34 I've been really careful about eating lately, but somewhere around nine I hankered for movie popcorn, or any salty snack for that matter.
35 Some people are sweet fans. I'm a salt guy.
36 I KNOW. I KNOW.
37 Lousy for you.
38 Anyhow, I pulled out our old dry-heat popcorn popper, because I hear they are much healthier than making popcorn in a greasy pot. I never microwave popcorn. One burned bag and your microwave stinks for weeks.
39 The trouble is I hadn't made popcorn in a while. It murders my teeth and makes me HALLA thirsty.
40 Didn't care. I can't survive on a chicken salad and Crystal Light.
41 That's the trouble with trying to be healthy.
42 You do well for around three days and then fall off the wagon.
43 So it goes.
44 I also am terrible at estimating amount of kernels poured into the dry-heat popper and figuring how much will come out larger.
45 My small batch soon became a kitchen filled with me running about trying to catch flying kernels with anything shaped like a pot or a bowl.
46 The huge and shiny metal bowl not only filled within three minutes but also burned my hands. Not too badly, but badly enough to set off a mild panic.
47 Once I got all that stuff under control I was able to munch and crunch my way to an eventual sleep.
48 I awakened on the couch with some odd old movie flickering at me. Everybody in the movie was happy except for this orphan. Cary Grant kept going over to the orphan and trying to cheer him up.
49 Other worldly.
50 I eventually made it down the hall to hop on my desktop and report this earth-shaking news.
51 I won't go into a long story but my desktop behaved in a miscreanic manner last night.
52 Letters landed on top of letters due to a cut-n-paste I intended to share.
53 I wound up erasing everything and starting over.
54 There is no such word as "miscreantic" by the way.
55 I've been reading Strunk and White's Elements of Style once again, which allows for me to get into mischief with phony adjectives. Will Strunk used to do that when there were no other suitable words.
56 I took the word from the innocent word "miscreant". Here is the dictionary meaning of what has always been one of my favorite words:
miscreant [mis-kree-uh nt] noun
1. a depraved, villainous, or base person.
2. Archaic. a person holding a false or unorthodox religious belief; a heretic.
adjective
1. depraved, villainous or base.
2. Archaic. holding a false or unorthodox religious belief; heretical.
57 You can see that the word "miscreant" already works as an adjective, but I simply wasn't satisfied with the spelling. I wasn't satisfied because there doesn't seem to be a word that means HALLA miscreant. So I made up "miscreantic".
58 People offended: 0.
59 I took the gamble and clearly got away with it. Sometimes it's the little things...
60 You have a great day.
61 See you again.
62 Peace.
~H~
Answer to yesterday's riddle: I am a man. If Larry's son is my son's father, what relationship am I to Larry?
a. You need to use the concept of least common denominator and turn into a math question:
Larry's son = my son's father
My son's father= me
Larry's son = me.
I am Larry's son.
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