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The window is on a door. The other door has blinds. The back door that is now covered had a giant glass window installed in the days before people began to shooting up schools. I put in a work order for blinds but the people whose job it is to install it never got around to it. Same thing with my fancy new flag.

Too often people would put their face up to the window to say hi or something distracting. No one will complain about it being covered. It was covered with construction paper when I first got it.

No but if I wanted to use that as an excuse to get them to rush the job they would do so but why make enemies and complain when I could just put cool posters up instead?

Alexander Haig recalling the presidential line of succession.

There's not much to wonder about I think. If the kid was excited about contributing that, you've probably made a core memory. A kid gets to feel important contributing something to their school. Is that doctrine? I'm just speaking anecdotally:

I still remember being a junior bureaucrat doing refreshingly tedious liberal paperwork pretty much in exchange for favors/iou's from administration. I did not resent spending time after hours in the computer lab, accumulated so much extra credit I could have probably written off the rest of the class and gotten an A. Before that, worked the library.

Cultivating a nonconfrontational relationship with school staff was an uphill chore. I think unfair expectations of mischief followed me from earlier grades. Got up to such antics I suppose as sniffing in class during cold and flu season, shifting in my seat (ergonomics, schmergonomics), using two too many cranks on the pencil sharpener, and generally just existing in the same room as an adult. A troublemaker's record, I dare say. No wonder some kids turn out so dour for their experience. Heard similar stories from college friends about their time served.

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I went with my girlfriend to a Christmas village in PA on Thanksgiving.


It was this one. Watch the first few seconds of the video to see what I saw when I went over the hill.

There's a few decent displays in my area that usually happen each year, including at the local zoo. What I'd really like to do is catch Whistler's at some point, but probably better to get back in practice at Crystal or Snoqualmie first.

I am trying something new with my students. I am ending class with a song. Every student will get to pick one someday.

No cursing

Anybody still got their old Pokemon cards collecting dust in a corner? I did




The $1200 those are worth isn't going to change my life in the slightest, but it was kinda a fun adventure to pull them out and ship them off to get graded.

ah, don't remind me. i have a huge ring-folder full of first- and second-gen pokémon shinies in neat little plastic pouches somewhere. i caught the very first wave of that stuff (in the UK/EU, anyway; not sure if that's technically first-gen as it was no doubt years after the japanese market) and was super into the cards and gameboy games. i left the binder at my grandmother's one school holidays and it has never been seen since. that's my great-grandchildren's ivy league tuition!

to be fair i was about 12.

i know what you mean. an extended (elderly) relative asked me a few years ago if i'd be interested in taking their stamp/coin collection, aka the war generation's MTG cards. it was a nice gesture but it wouldn't have even been worth my time to try and cross-reference all that shit and contact philatelists/numismatists to appraise it all and get a fair price. selling it as a bulk lot would have just been an insult to whatever effort they put into it, back in 1893 or whatever.

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I keep my baseball cards because they remind me of my childhood. I used to arrange my cards by favorite team/player every baseball season. I have very fond memories of sitting in my room and flipping through the binders full of men. Maybe one of these days I'll go through them again and pull out the expensive ones and store them separately