2 The District and the Union have come to a tentative agreement, and there is an air of celebration in the air!
3 Pop the cork!
4 I'll have another ice cream sandwich, but I'll raise it with ferocity.
5 School is about to get back to normal, if there ever WAS such a thing.
6 Whew.
7 That was stressful.
8
9 Ice cream sandwiches can be sticky, and they can get all over your keyboard if you aren't careful.
10 fsdafsdafsdsdf.
11 Yippee!
12 Moving On, Part One: I haven't heard a peep out of my lunatic neighbor since he pushed his speedboat around the block with his stupid truck. He careened around one corner, almost killing the Lady With No Face, our personal urban legend.
13 Tales from the hills and dales of Vietnam follow her like an ancient mist.
14 She is old, and always has her face hidden in a torn pink hoodie.
15 I'm always worried in the morning that I'm going to back out of the driveway and flatten her.
16 I'm sure a green ghost would emerge from her body and fly straight up.
17 Ghostly.
18 Not gonna lie, our hot-headed neighbor never came near her; I made all that up just to introduce a new character to the DN.
19 He DID careen around the neighborhood pushing his speed boat with his truck though.
20 Fookin' lunatic.
21 He seems to be angry about something.
22 I'm not as worried now that I'm caught up with my work and all.
23 I actually picked up my guitar yesterday and tuned it. I had time to string it last week and it still had the strings hanging out like the steel hair of a cartoon hillbilly.
24 I practiced some riffs and remembered how bad I still am, but it was fun anyway.
25 I realized this about the guitar: it sounds better when it is in tune. It also sounds better with new strings.
26 AND I got a student aide for Christmas.
27 On Monday one of my former students asked if she could be my student aide. My usual answer is, "Uh...nah."
28 She is a great writer AND an actress AND sound dude. She came in yesterday with some form or other, and, after looking over the vast amounts of papers that almost sank my boat, I agreed to bring her into the mix.
29 Instant success! She graded a class set of vocabulary in one period. All I need to do is quickly go over the stuff and see if she made any errors, then pop the stuff into the grade book.
30 AND when I got them they were all alpha.
31 That's modernspeak for "in alphabetical order."
32
33 Uh...you knew that.
34
35 M' bad.
36 I just loves me some shuck and jive.
37 Moving On, Part Two: That teevee show Chopped is on behind me.
38 It's this show I've talked about. I was busily boring you about how things are suddenly turning wonderful when I heard words, almost like mumblings: "appetizers" "Chef Alonzo" and "and the third ingredient..." "cat's eyes.'
39 I craned my head.
40 Did he really say that?
41
43 I know there are LOTS of odd dishes out there, like some of those dancing chicks on Facebook (Can you say, "Twenty-pounds of sugar in a ten-pound bag?") but do people really prepare cat's eyes on American cook shows?
44 I kept craning my neck further but something in my head cracked the way it do, so I returned to this nonsense.
45 Cat's eyes and Facebook wimminz will simply have to wait.
46 Sorry ladeez.
47 Anybody lookin'?
48 Moving On, Part Three: Did I tell you that Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo is grammatically correct?
49 Too early?
50 I may have that emergency lesson plan I have needed all year.
51 Let's ask The-Resource-That-Nobody-is-Supposed-to Use-But-That-Everyone-Uses-Anyway Wiki:
Is Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo a real sentence?
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55 You can't make this stuff up.
56 While there is a buffalo in the room, I believe I have found my cue to slip out. Is there a back door outta here? I'm uninterested in the residuals.
57 Have a GREAT Wednesday.
58 See you again.
59 Peace.
~H~
fin.
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