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    Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
    2:33 pm
    My journal has become a friends-only type of place in recent months.

    I'm paring my list down quite a lot.

    Here are your options:

    1) Ignore this fact and move on with your life [highly recommended].
    2) Check to see if I've dropped you; if I haven't, see step 1.
    3) Check to see if I've dropped you; if I have, and you don't care, see step 1.
    4) Check to see if I've dropped you; if I have, and you don't wish to be dropped, e-mail me at dakoopst at yahoo dot com so we can discuss.

    I'm removing folks with whom I've had little interaction. I'm also removing folks who have removed me.

    EDIT: This first cut isn't going to be as deep as I thought it might be...I'll think about where I want to go with this a little more before doing anything more drastic.
    Sunday, April 26th, 2009
    2:58 pm
    Yay! We won both softball games today!

    I'm getting old. I seem to have a lasting twinge in my right calf that activates whenever I start running. It's there even when I stretch beforehand. I think the only way to heal it is to rest it, and there's no way I'm gonna not play softball for a few weeks.

    I enjoy it too much.
    Friday, April 24th, 2009
    2:56 pm
    OMGs...

    Today was Senior Prank day. When I arrived in my classroom, the front board was lined with clocks (because none of my normal clocks work) and there was a dart board featuring the face of the lady I lost to on Jeopardy.

    Hmm. That was kinda lame, I thought.

    Then, sixth period...

    I find out that the senior class had hired a guy to come in and wrestle me. So we did for about a minute or two before the principal asked us to break.

    Turns out the guy was a state wrestling champion in Florida and runs a non-profit which seeks to provide wrestling gear for programs in inner-city schools. The students are going to give some money to his foundation.

    What a COOL idea for the prank...and it helps that, well, the guy was pretty darn cute, too. A couple of inches shorter than me, with good build...and he was wearing a singlet, albeit under a dress shirt and slacks...LOL
    Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
    9:16 am
    In honor of National Poetry Month...and my life in recent weeks:
     "Tell me where is Fancy bred,
    Or in the heart or in the head?
    How begot, how nourished?

    Reply, reply.

    It is engender’d in the eyes,
    With gazing fed; and Fancy dies
    In the cradle, where it lies.

    Let us all ring Fancy’s knell;
    I’ll begin it – Ding, dong, bell.

    Ding, dong, bell."

    --William Shakespeare
    The Merchant of Venice
    Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
    12:19 pm
    Hey, look! Action shot!

    This was *not* a good swing.
    12:44 am
    You know what surprises me?
     That my FL hasn't been flooded with posts about how hot the captain of the Maersk Alabama is:



    I know he's right up some of y'all's alleys....
    Monday, April 20th, 2009
    8:08 pm
    Hmm....
     Five hours of after-school grading and I'm still at it.

    Perhaps I should make tests that aren't so difficult to grade...

    ...or that more kids get right, so there's less partial credit to decide...

    ...or I could just cave in to the dark side and give only multiple-choice tests.

    *pause*

    If I ever do that, just shoot me in the head. Especially since my class load encompasses only 65 kids or so.

    MC tests are crap.
    Thursday, April 16th, 2009
    7:41 am
    Last night, my friends Rick, Pete and I went to see David Sedaris at the Cobb Energy Centre. The tickets were a birthday present to each of them from me.

    Even though I've read six or seven of Sedaris' books, I had never heard his actual voice on NPR or elsewhere.

    The man was friggin' hilarious.

    I will never be able to say the word Nicaragua the same ever again.

    Such an evening well-spent. :)
    Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
    12:30 am
    Oh, come *on*....
     I had a kind of weakness for Food Network's Food Detectives, which features former Queer Eye foodie Ted Allen.

    Alas...

    After showing a REALLY cool experiment in which actual iron filaments are drawn out of water-saturated Grape Nuts via a magnet, the show's editing crew completely dropped the ball. In a graphic intended to display the different elements and minerals needed to keep our body running, not only was the element fluorine (spelled "florine" by the editors, a *slightly* forgivable mistake) misspelled, but the MUCH easier-to-spell sulfur was ALSO misspelled as -- get this -- "sulfer."

    I mean, really. I try not to be anal about things like this, but if you're purporting to be a scientific show, know how to spell the damn elements.

    I think I'll stick to Good Eats.
    Sunday, April 12th, 2009
    9:45 am
    Rough weekend.

    Didn't win a game in the tournament. Really didn't come close.

    New guys are somewhat discouraged. I hope it doesn't last.

    This may be a long season.

    Here's hoping it's not.

    I'm headed home in a few.
    Friday, April 10th, 2009
    4:33 pm
    WANT!!

    (Um, the chair, not me...)

    In Birmingham for a softball tournament this weekend, so will be out of touch. Have a good one, y'all. :)
    Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
    1:13 pm
    Sorry to be posting so much today, but...

    Is it just me, or is this man's hat abnormally large?
    11:49 am
    8:57 am
    More fun with parsing...
     I read this headline on Yahoo! News:

    911 operator didn't tell Pittsburgh police about suspect's guns

    And the following conversation ran through my mind:

    "Yeah, he works out, like, five times a week! They must be 20, 21 inches! Get him to flex 'em for ya!"

    *rolls eyes*
    Monday, April 6th, 2009
    10:00 am
    My softball team, 2009 edition

    We may not be the best team out there, but we're gonna have fun, dangit -- and that's what matters. :)

    (Although, apparently, we haven't quite gotten the hang of how to line up for a group picture yet...still, there's time.)
    Friday, April 3rd, 2009
    12:04 pm
    Oh, cool!
     Another great exposure, this time on the national stage, for one of our kids -- in fact, one I'm teaching this year in AP Calculus AB.
    9:13 am
    Is LJ slow today or is it just my connection?
    Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
    11:46 pm
    One of the things my chorus is doing for its June concert?

    How's about an SATB arrangement of Prop 8: The Musical?



    This is gonna be fun.
    12:24 am
    "I'm skeptical," he said.
    "Of what?" I replied.
    "That you'll turn out like all the others."
    Pause. "You mean that I'll disappear?"
    He nodded.
    Pause. "Well," I said, "I can't say that I've never done that before."
    Pause. "Neither can I."
    "So I don't want to make any promises, especially not this early. But you know what? I'm enjoying the now." I grinned. "You should try it."
    He grinned back. "Okay."
    Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
    10:52 pm
    One must be more careful...
     So tonight was my first rehearsal back with OurSong. Great rehearsal, and the mid-June show should be great.

    I left for rehearsal about 6:45 and arrived back home around 10:30. When I opened the door, I immediately smelled natural gas. I hurried to the kitchen and discovered that I hadn't turned one of my oven's eyes completely off, and that it had been leaking gas out into the condo for almost four hours.

    The kitty was fine, and I have a fan working now to blow out the gas and get the air a bit more stabilized.

    I'm very, very fortunate. Something really bad could have happened.

    I'm still not sure how I managed to not turn the friggin' thing all the way off.
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