2 But I'm a taxpayer.
3 Decided to grade papers last night instead, and continue to work through the weekend.
4 Why?
5 Halloween is the end of the grading period.
6 Dizzying.
7 My own fault.
8 I give essays and stories; I read essays and stories.
9 These are fun though.
10 They're ghost stories, and students can come up with some fun stuff.
11 Tuesday they got to tell what I call The Heidi Chronz in the Theater. Heidi is the purported ghost that haunted the Theatre at my old school. It was great, because I had the Theater at EV, my current school, all to myself. Although I didn't go up any ladders, I managed to use the lights in the Theater to my advantage and to come up with a beautiful design using deep blues and peaches in a dandy combine.
12 There were even three ellipsoids aimed at the cyc, and they resembled ghosts rising out of the ground in a cemetery.
13 I was pretty scared, because the story now includes my tenure at EV. It gets longer with each year, because Heidi still rides with me on Halloween. I wasn't afraid of a ghost or haunting or anything; I was afraid of keeping track of the emerging story, which never ends.
14 A couple of fun coincidences happened. I got into the Theater the other day to set everything up and found it was freezing in there.
15 I walked up to the tech booth, and there, hanging over the arm of a swivel chair was my jacket. I haven't worked in there for a long time, so I smiled. I figured it wasn't Heidi; it was Mom.
16 The tech booth was all backwards. The monitor, usually to my right, was to my left, and the board had moved. That's how long it had been. Since I've been at that school the monitor was always to my right.
17 My last class of the last story of the day was a rather long one, but near the end of the story the student mentioned some numbers: 009999, followed immediately by him saying, "Yadda, yadda..."
18 If you know the Heidi Chronz, those two things come up at key times in my Heidi stories.
19 Earlier a student told of the haunting of Chuck E. Cheese on Tully Road. He talked about when the store closed, the after hours got weird, a common element of the Chuck E. Cheese story.
20 Before he ever said that I had planned on showing a Twilight Zone episode today.
22 It is called The After Hours. It is the one with the department store and a gal named Marcia. It has creepy mannequins haunting her.
23 Monday (I'm going backwards here because things are recurring to me, not because I'm into going backwards on Halloween!) I showed the episode called Living Doll, the one where a doll named Talky Tina threatens to kill Telly Savalas. His wife Annabelle (Mary LaRoche) thinks he is being mean to the doll, which he is, and threatens to leave him.
24 In the middle of the day some kids were talking and a girl said, "I've seen Annabelle!" a brand new film about a killer doll.
25 She said that before Sevalas ever addressed LaRoche as Annabelle.
26 When he did, she looked over, and I said, "My guitar is also named Annabel." It is. I named it after Anabel Lee.
27 And going still further backwards, I told the students that on my very first day at EVHS a car pulled right in front of me as I was making a left turn. I decided to remember the license number.
28 It was this: High T 2.
29 First day ever at that school.
30 If you didn't catch it, say it. It will sound like this: Heidi 2.
31 Heidi 2. The Sequel.
32 The end. That's how I ended my almost hour-long story.
33 It's becoming obvious, as it does each year that I have to write out the entire story. I always intend to, and did at one time, but I had it on Geocities, which eventually folded somewhere around 2005 or 6.
34 If I had time I would be able to assemble it all again, but these days I'm grading grading grading, which is how this entire piece began.
35 I do owe it to the readers of the DN to somehow get the story out there, but I don't really know how to work this Blogger thingy.
36 I had to switch from Xanga a couple of years ago because they were going to dump all of my Daily News archives.
37 I tried to rescue them, even paid money for it, so they were rescued.
38 Somewhere.
39 Maybe they are in the mysterious Cloud.
40 Who knows?
41 I can't keep up with technology. I don't know how to do a lot of it, and each time I get a new computeresque thingy, I get lost.
42 Windows 8 almost knocked me out of the ball park. My Nook sometimes drives me insane. Forget about my phone. I don't even know how to answer it.
43 I'm straying here.
44 Well, think I'm gonna go. I'm not even sure if I can edit this today.
45 Have a very Happy Halloween!!!
46 See you again.
47 Peace.
~H~
