I get sick two weeks away from the students. As punishment, my body decides to become ill.
My wife says that I get sick because I miss my students. I think she’s joking because if any student reads this they’re probably getting excited about the prospect of a substitute teacher the day they return from vacation.
felixnation :: Dec.24.2008 :: The Coal Mine, students, wife :: Comments Off
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.
felixnation :: Dec.19.2008 :: Mad Schemes, Odysseys, The Coal Mine, coworkers, wife :: Comments Off
That’s right. It’s that time of year.
Every now and then I order something on the Internet that I don’t have delivered to my two safe zones–work or parents’ house. It’s already bad enough that when a box arrives my dad just asks me if it’s my “little men” of miniature toy soldiers, or that the office staff tells me they got presents for me when they put a box of traded Monsterpocalypse figures in my mailbox. And this time, for some reason, I didn’t want to share the delivery of my Playstation 3.
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felixnation :: Dec.13.2008 :: Addictions, Fortuna, Hermit Cave, Mad Schemes, coworkers, friends, wife :: Comments Off
The Internet makes you stupid. I believe this is a scientifically proven study. If it isn’t, then someone better get on it if they want to contend for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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felixnation :: Dec.08.2008 :: Hermit Cave, Learnin' Stuff, family, friends, wife :: Comments Off
My wife works with children. Specifically, she works with children in the library.
Today she gets to hold the pinata over their heads and help them tear its skin apart so that they can gorge themselves on its candy organs.
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felixnation :: May.05.2008 :: The Coal Mine, wife :: 3 Comments »
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 of riding the trains for 24 miles.
felixnation :: Apr.30.2008 :: Addictions, Odysseys, The Coal Mine, family, students, wife :: No Comments »
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:
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felixnation :: Feb.25.2008 :: Mad Schemes, Odysseys, The Coal Mine, family, wife :: No Comments »
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.
felixnation :: Feb.06.2008 :: Odysseys, wife :: No Comments »
The Hermit Cave is dank and deep, but sometimes it takes just a bit more scrubbing to wash the stank out of outside world excusions.
felixnation :: Sep.18.2007 :: Addictions, Hermit Cave, The Coal Mine, gamers, wife :: No Comments »
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.
felixnation :: Aug.17.2007 :: Conversations, Odysseys, family, wife :: No Comments »