Weekly News

Since I've been on the cycle of writing once a week, I figured I would give you what's happened this week, complete with the title of "Weekly News", which Linds told me not to put because its...boring.

• Well, whether I believe it or not, this past week was the first full 5-day week of school. It somewhat amazes me when I think about the attitude of some of these kids here. Don't get me wrong, there are these kids all around the world, but I say here because well...I'm here. I thought the slow start may have been because it was summer, and they didn't have to do anything for a couple months. Well, to end the babbling, I had 10 kids not turn in the Lab sheet Friday...and it was something we did in class. I just wonder what was going through their mind when I said "It's due at the end of the period" and "Pass the papers to the right". Maybe I was the weird kid, but I couldn't hand anything in late, blank, or not hand it in at all after I went through all that work.

• Continuing with the "boring theme from Linds", she told me I was boring this week Monday-Thursday because again, for some reason, allergies hit me. Don't get me wrong, I think I'm young enough to feel invincible at times, but these allergies really kick my butt. Its especially tough to teach all day when the Puffs with Lotion tissues kept calling my name (I keep a special stash, the kids get the sandpaper) So...it was a week of going to bed at 9, multiple trips to Walgreens, and choking down Airborne (which I don't know if it worked or not, but it tasted bad enough that it had to do some good)

• Friday night I went with Linds and some of the varsity v-ball team to watch the DePaul v-ball team take on Univ. Texas-San Antonio. The head coach of DePaul is married to the varsity assistant at Timothy, so he got us all in for free. So I guess now officially...we made it downtown! We took a minibus with the 12 of us from school and drove to DePaul (which is north of downtown, fairly close to Wrigley) They lost in 4 games, but it was pretty fun to watch, and alot of fun to see where the DePaul men play their basketball games. We also saw the George Miken banners for being All-American and Player of the Year back in the 40's. Afterwards we stopped downtown and got ice cream at Cold Stone before heading back to school.

• Today...wow today. It has been raining since Friday morning. We saw this morning that O'Hare had about 6.5 inches already, and they have to be well above 7 by now. But, we decided that we were going to make a trip to....where else? Target! This was no special trip, however, because it ended with me running through the rain with a 32" big-screen tv in my hands. Dinner was put on hold while the setup procedures proceeded. I let the channel search do its thing to find stations, thinking it would take about a minute with our 12 channels to find. So we sat down for a sandwich, and watched the numbers keep going up................and up......................and up................and (you get the picture). Well, the sandwich was finished long before the channel search was complete at a number well into the triple digits. So we flip through the stations and it wasn't long before each time we were yelling with our new-found entertainment. Out came TBS, TNT, FX, Spike, Discovery, History, TLC (Linds favorite), and.....oh yes, ESPN and ESPN2, plus the Big 10 network. Well, pathetically, this afternoon has been spent watching full HD college football and MLB games, but I really don't feel bad about it at all...

• Well, that may be about the extent of the excitement for one blog. For those of you interested in Twins material, AG posted this link the other day which proves my theory from this past Winter/Spring about Bill Smith, its a pretty interesting read with WAY too many numbers, but the conclusion at the bottom is worth checking out. On the other hand, hindsight is always 20/20...unless you're a Twins nut.

• Big doubleheader today, looking good so far for the Twins...up 5-1 in the 7th. Obviously with all the rain we've had, the Sox aren't playing again, so it will be interesting to see when they make up their games with the Tiggers.

So long everybody...