But probably not.
I don't care, however. I will let you in on a couple of things, though not exciting to anyone else, are exciting to me.
I graded a bunch of papers today. No, that's not exciting, but the fact that I have fewer left to do is kind of exciting. See how little it takes to please me.
I have wanted to reflect on the tragedies that have befallen my country lately, but I don't dare because as soon as I do, liberals, conservatives, moderates, proteststants, catholics, jews and gentiles begin to twist any of my comments into a forum for political invective. Do you know how much this saddens me? So, I am not going to say anything else about politics.
My life is not very exciting most of the time, and I do see some need for changes to be made, though I am not quite sure what those changes might be. I'm almost 55, so you think I would just settle down and be content with what I have. I am content with what I have, but a great prophet (Bob Dylan) once said, that he not busy being born is busy dying. To me, that means if you are not continually striving to overcome challenges and meet new adventures head on, then you are becoming stagnant.
I wish -- well, I'm not going down that road. You know the old saying, "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride." Would you believe me if I told you that once I made that statement in one of my classes, and my students had no idea what it meant. I guess they struggle with anything other than text speak. lol. I am reminded of the novel 1984 in which the government had as one of its primary goals to gut all the passion and nuances out of language so that the people would be unable to even think of anything remotely rebellious, much less express it. Newspeak. Text speak is the new Newspeak. Actually, that is a bit too cynical. Some people can get quite clever with tweets and texts.
There was also Doublespeak in 1984. Politicians could learn from that. An example from the novel is one of the party's slogans. War is Peace. Freedom is slavery. Sorry, politics again.
We have more testing this week in school. Block scheduling. Two or three days where I won't get my plan period. General chaos and confusion. All in a day's work.
Well, I don't have much else to say.
I graded a bunch of papers today. No, that's not exciting, but the fact that I have fewer left to do is kind of exciting. See how little it takes to please me.
I have wanted to reflect on the tragedies that have befallen my country lately, but I don't dare because as soon as I do, liberals, conservatives, moderates, proteststants, catholics, jews and gentiles begin to twist any of my comments into a forum for political invective. Do you know how much this saddens me? So, I am not going to say anything else about politics.
My life is not very exciting most of the time, and I do see some need for changes to be made, though I am not quite sure what those changes might be. I'm almost 55, so you think I would just settle down and be content with what I have. I am content with what I have, but a great prophet (Bob Dylan) once said, that he not busy being born is busy dying. To me, that means if you are not continually striving to overcome challenges and meet new adventures head on, then you are becoming stagnant.
I wish -- well, I'm not going down that road. You know the old saying, "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride." Would you believe me if I told you that once I made that statement in one of my classes, and my students had no idea what it meant. I guess they struggle with anything other than text speak. lol. I am reminded of the novel 1984 in which the government had as one of its primary goals to gut all the passion and nuances out of language so that the people would be unable to even think of anything remotely rebellious, much less express it. Newspeak. Text speak is the new Newspeak. Actually, that is a bit too cynical. Some people can get quite clever with tweets and texts.
There was also Doublespeak in 1984. Politicians could learn from that. An example from the novel is one of the party's slogans. War is Peace. Freedom is slavery. Sorry, politics again.
We have more testing this week in school. Block scheduling. Two or three days where I won't get my plan period. General chaos and confusion. All in a day's work.
Well, I don't have much else to say.
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