The Day-of-the-Week and Alliterative Word Thing
- I’ve been craving crab lately. It probably led me to say something inappropriate/embarrassing at school (not around the kids). Ok, I said “I wish I had crabs” - let the snickering begin.
- I’m having a blast doing the Month of Maiden thing and seeinguntapped, all of the hearts and reading the reactions/comments.
- After the Month of Maiden, I’ll get to the collaborative blog I mentioned a couple months ago. I haven’t forgotten about you, jimicowan and awordoraline.
- Next week, we have a four day week (sort of). Friday is a professional development day. I will be in Newport, RI on our annual Humanities field trip on Tuesday, and will be taking two groups of students to see Gatsby on Wednesday and Thursday. For those of you who are following along, that means I’ll have exactly ONE full day of school next week. (That’ll teach ‘em to cancel our Spring Break!)
- Got very upset with a fellow teacher today because her daughter, a student of mine, missed the deadline for getting her paperwork in for the field trip BY TWO DAYS and she had the temerity to have a secretary from the office deliver it to me TWO DAYS LATE. Thank you for undermining me and teaching your daughter how irrelevant deadlines are.
- I saw a student wearing a Deftones t-shirt and asked her who the Deft Ones were and if they were anything like Daft Punk. It took a bit for her to realize that I was kidding.
- I special-guest taught in four history classes this week. I showed some Jackson Pollock paintings and talked about how to talk about them, specifically how people shouldn’t discuss abstract art in concrete terms. Rather than trying to find recognizable objects in those paintings, begin with words like “chaos” and “anger” and “hope”.
- I have been active on Untappd (I’m bflopete there, probably - join me) lately (I told a friend it was like FourSquare for beer). I also found out that there is a limit on how quickly you can post. Apparently, their servers are slower than my drinking pace.
- Since the beginning of May, I’ve lost about 15 pounds. I’ve eaten pretty much nothing but salads, green tea, water, yogurt, and fruit. And chocolate. And beer. I’m gonna patent this.
- I’ve been bored and underenthused by Game of Thrones (and yes, I realize that posting that is like internet suicide) and The Borgias. I realize that some plots take time to develop, but it seems like I’ve watched multiple episodes where nothing significant has happened. Even GoT seems to have forsaken the WTF!!! endings from the first season.
