1 I peek out and see it is Tuesday.
2 Somebody stretched Monday out like a hot piece of McCraw's Taffy.
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4 Only on a Tuesday would a metaphor that bad find its way here.
5 Ay, me.
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7 Boy the PTA sure did a good job of painting these benches.
8 Anybody lookin'?
9 We had an earthquake drill yesterday.
10 It went on for over 25 minutes, and was for one period only.
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12 I'm glad the kids are safe.
13 As a teacher, I had my own earthquake drill in August, immediately following the Napa quake, because it's an easy thing to do in a few minutes of class. I researched it, watched police videos, emailed the best practice to the office, and drilled my students on exactly what to do.
14 Took around ten minutes per class.
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16 When you teach, you want your like classes on the same page each period. For example, if I have four classes of English 2A, and we are studying Midsummer, I want all of us on Act 3, Sc. 1 throughout the day. It makes planning much easier.
17 Each time we have something coming into one class, it throws everything off and becomes a minor logistical nightmare.
18 This is why teachers go crazy any time there are class interruptions. Some of us actually plan our lessons, almost to the minute. We are flexible, but by the end of the day we want all our classes beginning with the same stuff the following day.
19 We leave a few minutes for interruptions and things, but overall we want to begin each day with everything lined up, and end each day in approximately the same place.
20 When that unhinges, it can confuse even the most brilliant among us.
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22 That would not include this Old Brown Shoe.
23 When you reach a certain age, you walk into the garage and forget why.
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25 That begins at around the age of 25.
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27 If you have reached a quarter of a century you know I'm right.
28 Here's the good news: it doesn't get better, but it doesn't get THAT much worse. It is just a constant.
29 I remember years ago opening a cabinet and seeing a quart of milk.
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31 How and when was life THAT busy?
32 Ah, it is what it is.
33 fsdafafdfdf.
34 I love doing that.
35 Just fiddling on the keyboard.
36 It makes no journalistic sense, which is why I am an amateur, even though I've written this stuff for nineteen years.
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38 It's all good.
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40 I am into the 3:02 in the morning. I fell into a minor coma watching the second go-round of the Giants/Dodgers eighth inning last night.
41 Funny, baseball.
42 You think you have three world championship rings, and you look up and there are guys named Duffy at bat.
43 And Susak catching. And Pagan running into a wall.
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45 Where are the 2014 Giants?
46 Meanwhile, you look at the Dodgers and see a team that has been purchased with LOTS of money.
47 I looked at the Giants last night and it felt like we got all our guys from a yard sale at Savers.
48 Ah, whatevs.
49 Long season. I still loves baseball. And yes, I can put on blinders and keep rooting. That's how we won it all last year. And baseball itself puts comfortable blinders on lots of other things.
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51 I get to ignore a lot of other crapola in the news, for example.
52 And it passes the time, thus the handle. Thus.
53 There are worse things. And I've seen them all this year. So I'll just pull the blankets over my head, forget about that ball game, or late earthquake drills and count my blessings along with my sheep.
54 I gottago. It is officially into the 3:09.
55 Have a GREAT day. Don't let anyone mess it up.
56 See you again.
57 Peace.
~H~
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