Wish You Were Here

Friday, June 22, 2007

Deep Thoughts...

Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer.

As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.

When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.

I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.

He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, "Dust to dust," some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, "I'll be waiting for you in heaven--with a gun."

Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.

We used to laugh at Grandpa when he'd head off and go fishing. But we wouldn't be laughing that evening when he'd come back with some whore he picked up in town.

Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it's head with a note that says "You." After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done

I think a good product would be "Baby Duck Hat". It's a fake baby duck, which you strap on top of your head. Then you go swimming underwater until you find a mommy duck and her babies, and you join them. Then, all of a sudden, you stand up out of the water and roar like Godzilla. Man, those ducks really take off! Also, Baby Duck Hat is good for parties.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Come Back, Sjon, Come Back!

I saw this and thought of you.



When will you be returning to So Cal?

Friday, June 15, 2007

Hoop Time

Well gang, this is my last Friday of work for awhile. Yes, you can hate me or be slightly jealous of me, but don't get too excited. I still have 200 notebooks and nine projects to grade before Monday and then I have to input grades, bubble them, clean up my classroom, and then I get to check out for the summer.

But since it's nearing the end of school, it's time for the kids to jump through all of the appropriate hoops. My students have to take the district benchmark today. It's a 33 question test which covers the last three units I supposedly taught them in the past 10 weeks. Now, I don't put too much stock (no, make that I don't put ANY stock) into the district benchmark test because some schools and even one teacher at my school actively cheats by giving the students the test questions as review either the night before or even prior to giving the test ON THAT DAY. So...my students are "competing" against other students whose teachers have acted unethically. But that's neither here nor there. I just can't believe how many tests my students have to take...there's my unit test and the district benchmark for World History...but then there's the benchmark for math, English...and then I'm sure they also have to take the end of the unit tests for those classes as well. How many hoops does a 7th grader have to jump through in order to move onto the 8th grade? Too many to count...waaaaaaayyyyyyy too many to count. Okay, I'm done bitching. I don't know why I care so much. They certainly don't pay me enough to care this much...