there are many reasons to love neil diamond: - coming to america, ingrained in everyone's heart. ok, at least mine. - don't turn around. i learned this song from Aswad, a weird 90s reggae group, and then learned later that it was a neil tune. and then ace of bass wrecked it for everyone forever. - the movie with jack black and steve zahn and jason biggs. - the pure joy obtained from screaming "bah dah dah" in the middle of sweet caroline when you're drunk - and now this, a cover of an adam sandler song? really?
today is full of correcting papers, entering grades, visiting powerplants, sending emails, and crushing young hopes and dreams. i'll blog more tomorrow (not really.)
when a teacher puts a problem on the test that says "how can i make Intro to Design a better class next year?" it's an honest request for places where improvements can be made. it is not, in any way, an opportunity to say how much you like the teacher and the class. it won't help your grade, it really won't.
and not even the cool Dukes of Hazzard Uncle Jesse? these are some dumb criminals. unless they have pictures of john stamos and a dude i can't imagine how they expected to get fat cash out of this sextortion. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/two_charged_in_john_stamos_extortion_2E70AtSmPz0tzKSC71IiNK *additionally, there's no more Sons Of Anarchy until next september. that's gonna make for a lot of boring tuesday nights between now and then. back to the warcraft well. or watching more movies on netflix. or rampant porn consumption.
three more days of classes, long days but still just three more days. and then friday is mad-rush-for-grading day. and the next two weeks are pretty much blowoff. except for meetings and paperwork and xmas presents and a bunch of other shit.
three long days. i can do three long days standing on my head, right? RIGHT? man, i need more pictures to accompany my blogs. my well is running dry.
holy shit was my house loud last night. i bought beer for parents that didn't want beer, there was food everywhere, mostly the teens ate cheesesticks. as far as i can count there were 12 dance-going girls, my two younger daughters, middle daughter's friend, two boys, eight different parents in addition to me and the wife, and a baby sister. holy balls. i can't believe how adult a bunch of fourteen year old girls can look. if i was a high school boy in 2009 my pants would be tented all the time. one mom brought two girls, she was an hour late, we waited for her to take pictures and she is loud and crazy and her daughter is loud and crazy. i'm extremely lucky that my daughter doesn't usually have those types as friends. they were late, they got here and made it a giant deal, like it was a paparazzi entrance. whatever. her daughter said "i'm classy" and before my brain told my mouth not to say it i said "i don't think that word means what you think it means" - whatever.
today was the high school band concert. my heart is very happy that middle daughter hates band and there will be no middle school band concert this year. wednesday there's a grade school singing concert but i'll be in school.
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