The DN

1  Well now isn't this nice.

2  We stare down the barrel of the World Series tonight, and we have a rested Madison Bumgarner goin'.

3   Ain't sayin' nuttin'.

4   Nobody's sayin' nuttin'.

5   We're like those South Park kids when they all stare in disbelief.

6  The funny thing is that because of all our weird scheduling last week I keep thinking it's a day later, like old bread.

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8   All right, all right. 

9   Teaching Field of Dreams ain't no picnic. Lousy analogies are the order of the day. Work with me.

10  It fits perfectly with the Heidi/Ghost unit though. AND it fits in with the Giants incredible jaunt to the Series.

11  Some things are meant to be.

12  <turns into Julie Andrews and runs through the alps> Take my hand...take my whole life too...

13   Anybody lookin'?

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15   <looking around>

16   Uh...well, the South Park kids?

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18   The font just changed and shrunk again.

19  That's better. I felt like Alice.

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21  Can't take this guy anywhere.

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23   Sorry about that last slide. 

24   Pretty sure I got pranked. 

25   Oh, bother. 

26   O Mad Bum. Keep those guys off the bases. It's all you need do.

27   No pressure.

28   Moving On, Part One: Okay so this is a bit embarrassing: all day yesterday I thought the Series was going to be on at 5:07. I told my classes, "Watch the Series!!!"

29  I've mentioned that my students by and large are not baseball fans, which is one reason I worked Field of Dreams into my lessons.

30  The trouble came when we had PSAT scheduling last week. 

31  I completely lost track of time. Yesterday several of us stood in a classroom in our Giants' stuff exchanging stories of how far behind we've fallen.

32  Grading papers all October: annual event. That, baseball, rearranged schedules, and regular life fly at us like pies in a carnival. 

33   Anybody lookin'?

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35   Baby Peggy really doesn't like puns. 

36   I never knew that.

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38   So two fish swim into a concrete wall. One fish says to the other, "Dam!"

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40   <crickets>

41   This stuff never gets old I tellya.

42   ffdklfadfsdkjfd;sdaaf.

43   Howzbout those GIANTS?

44   Would it be a jinx if I read Casey at the Bat to my students? I've thought about it. 

45   Too many Irishmen.

46   I might save it for St. Paddy's Day.

47   Meanwhile I'm rockin' a tie that from a distance looks like a painting in a museum, but up close it has embedded in it baseball players. 

48   I've been wearing it for the last week. Superstition. Baseball tradition. I have that and a broken Giants' lanyard that I allow to hang out of my pocket so that it hooks on things, almost killing me each time. 

49   The fonts changed and shrunk again.

50  I'm back. 

51  I was about to say that a broken Giants' lanyard cannot take me down. Have you seen me lately?

52  Don't answer that. 

53  I gottago.

54  Giants in six. 

55   Enjoy your day and GO GIANTS!!!

56   See you again.

57   Peace. 

~H~