The Daily News

1   Monday.

2   It has officially become the new Tuesday.

3   My older philosophy was that Mondays are an automatic lost cause, so most people are prepared for it. It's sort of like putting on a warm coat and gloves when a cold weather front is predicted. 

4   What people never plan for is Tuesdays, which is why I have felt for some time that Tuesday should be eliminated as a day of the week. 

5   This offended people who were born on Tuesdays. 

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7   To be honest, I would have to look at an almanac to know what day of the week I was born.

8   Back to my thesis, I am officially disoriented on Mondays.

9   Too much weirdness going on, I imagine.

10  We just bought a house in Sac, and now have a for sale sign in front of my San Jo home. 

11   We have also been "staging," which means making it look like nobody lives there.

12  This is nearly an impossibility if you are a teacher, since grading papers takes up two or three rooms if you are me. 

13   I have morphed the work bench in my garage as my new desk.

14  Everything has shifted. It's sort of like when you move your boss's waste basket to the opposite side of his or her desk, just to watch them get disoriented. 

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16   You've never...

17   NVM.

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19   I was about to say that if you multiply that disorientation times about a million, you will have some idea why I keep turning around in circles every time I need anything.

20  I have a bag of ties somewhere in the garage.

21  I'm never sure where my shoes are. 

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23   There are worse things. 

24   I need an extra ten minutes in order to do little stuff, like putting on socks. 

25   Gotta find 'em first. 

26   THEN gotta find a matching set, which is impossible for most people. 

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28  It's the Man.

29  Moving On, Part One: Did you ever listen to a radio show in the middle of the night, and get haunted by it later into the night?

30  I was listening to some show or other and they talked about how the police are going to be using drones to spy on everyone, and how much safer we will all be. 

31  I then heard a noise which sounded like a gigantic hummingbird just outside my window. 

32  I was afraid to raise the shade. 

33  Turned out it was just the fan. 

34  My hearing is beginning to disappear so things sound like they're coming from different places. 

35   It doesn't help that when I take roll these days, several different people will help me by saying, "Here."

36  Nice students too. But I'll call a guy's name and expect to hear a deep voice, and a girl with a high voice will say, "Here." Or three students will say "Here" simultaneously. 

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38   Oh, sometimes I think I must go mad!

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40   Anybody lookin'?

41   Well, it's Monday, so I think I'll cut this short. 

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43   I seem to be saying that every day these last few weeks. 

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45  Before I go, I would like so send a lot of love and prayers to the people of Nepal, as well as anybody directly affected by that tragedy. 

46  Okay, you take care. 

47   I gottago.

48   See you again.

49   Peace.

~H~