Yesterday afternoon, before we leave work, our Assistant Principal makes the following announcement: All after-school activities are canceled. Please check the website before you call or come in to school tomorrow.
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Next time maybe we should hire a stripper
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
My buddy A– turns thirty four, so he invites us out somewhere for drinks on a Friday night. Friday night is playing video games on the computer night, so I decline and suggest instead we just hang out at the game shop like we normally do. –Whatever, he says, you’re worse than my elderly parents. [...]
The best laid plans
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
My plan is as perfect as it’s convoluted. Work, stay after work, travel northeast to game, travel southeast to pickup my wife, go home and sleep at 11-12. This way, my students get to rehearse and makeup exams, I get to play Necromunda with some new fellas, and my wife gets a ride home instead [...]
Deadlines.
Monday, February 25, 2008
I have a deadline, and several dead lines. 24 weeks of lesson plans due by Friday, even though I’ve submitted at least 20 of them previously, give or take. Progress report grades due this week. Want a new idea for the next week. Barriers to completion:
Whiteout
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
We joke about how little snow there is in the morning based on the weather reports from the day before. It’s nothing more than a little rain where we are, though a tune in to the radio or news would have told us a different story.
Early morning bus
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
There’s something harsh about an early morning bus in the city.
Planet Indy 2007
Friday, August 17, 2007
I’m at GenCon. While I’m there, my wife sees my niece at a family party back in Chicago. She’s four (my niece), and she still gets a little confused when we tell her things.
Socializing is expensive
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
You pay to socialize with people. You pay for the food, for the transportation, for the medical bills… But when I socialize with my coworkers, I’m beginning to think that you don’t just pay, but you pay real money.
Do they take after their mother, or their father?
Thursday, August 2, 2007
We’re at the Children’s Museum playing with…ok it’s all a blur. We’re playing with random pretend crap for kids (and when I say crap, I mean cool stuff). My niece and nephew are fake grocery shopping in a kid’s town, fake delivering mail, fake creating a plumbing system under a fake house. It’s really cool.
Good times at the bar-bee-que
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
My coworker M- has her first barbecue at her new house out in Bolingbrook. I show up early because I drop my wife off in the morning and if I stop in the house I’m lost. Home means I’m never going out, not even to M-’s house.