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Wednesday: May 12, 2010 - May 12 of 12
6:48: Waking up and starting the last day of school. Yeah, buddy!
7:10am: Innocently running the backup for the sites, little knowing that I'd actually need to use ALL of them in a few hours.
7:15am: Waiting for Chompy to do her bid'ness.
My class posing for last-day-of-school picture day.
8:45am: Headed home to see what exactly is wrong with the site but stopping for a bagel and noticing that a cop has a little shamrock taped to the bottom of his gun in the mean time.
10:30: Headed back to school. Thinking I had everything fixed on the site I stop at Starbucks to indulge the 13 year old boy in me. Sex Rowing.
About to go back home but oh no, locked my keys in my office. Had to go beg for an extra set. Reassuring to know the key to 325 opens every other room.
Gave a final sight-singing exam. I didn't have a calculator on me but I think a 4/16 is an F. Fortunately, Student X did well enough on the prepared singing and sight-rhythm to pass this portion of the final.
3:30pm: After fixing the site for real (why do people always hack it on my 12 of 12 days?) got some lunch at the Kerouacesque Darma Buns. (Get it?)
6:00pm: After even more programming, finally relaxing with some purging of belongings before the move to NH.
7:20pm: I totally screamed when this huge ant came out from an old box. I was able to kill it on my own but Chompy came running as backup just in case.
8:00pm: Celebrating the end of the school year with Chris and Xan at a pizza place that used to be a strip club.
I was asleep by 10pm so the bonus Chompy picture was from this afternoon. Comments: 0
Monday: April 12, 2010 - April 12 of 12
7:40am: Someone taped this wisdom to my office door.
Bringing the array of coffees necessary to caffeinate those who need to be caffeinated.
8:00am: The lectern appears to have a case of the "la la la"s. It's going around apparently.
9:15am: Let the wrangling of semicolons begin.
1pm: Our plates in various stages of completion. The picture doesn't show it but I really felt like I fought the good fight against such healthy food.
Chompy rolling around and looking for attention.
3:00pm: Chris and I (lightly Photoshopped) after an epic point in racquetball. He annihilated me.
4:30pm: Doing my errands.
4:45pm: A lesser man might fear you judge him for eating McDonald's but I have the blood work to prove my cholesterol numbers are awesome. Amazing what exercise can do for you.
5:00pm: Time for a quick nap with Chompalatapus before I go back to wrangling semicolons.
9:30pm: Food break at Chipotle. It'll be nice to live closer to civilization soon.
10:30pm: Making my flights for Tallahassee. I feel like it's been years since I've been back there probably due to the fact it's been years since I've been back there.
12:11am: All the semicolons have been wrangled, even if it took 2800 lines to do it. Nothing says "Ahhhh" quite like } #master. Comments: 4
Friday: February 12, 2010 - February 12 of 12
6:10am (or 6:11): My arsenal of alarm clocks. Each alarm clock has a separate purpose. The gray one projects the time above my bed so even though I'm blind without my contacts in I can still read the numbers. The big one with the green numbers is the last resort set for ten minutes after the rest and wakes the dead. The black one in the back goes off first and plays something nice and soothing to starting waking me up. And my phone goes off every ten minutes with the "alarm" sound because nothing wakes you up quite like a heart attack.
7:00am: Suited up and ready to be Mike.edu for an hour. Some rogue curls look like horns but whatever. It's a special day in class...
8:40: Chris and I performing 1979 by the Smashing Pumpkins. We face the attitude daily that what we teach has nothing to do with "today's music" so sometimes it's good just to smack the students back into submission with a transcription and performance that illustrates, oh, everything you're talking about in class. Boom. (Video soon!)
10:00 All that smacking-down needs some breakfast from Einstein's.
10:15: Driving back home with Chompy in the back seat. I have to pick her up to get her out of the car which sucks more than you might think. There's my FSU phone case that Chris got me for Christmas. Go State!
10:30: Mike.com has a new arch-enemy at work whose netspeak reminds of me Alex. I know it's not Alex because there was no note saying "Dude--chess?" This is actually out of order since that came about at like 6pm but whatever.
4:00pm: Taking myself out for a nice CFA lunch.
After dropping off my NZ picture to be framed and getting the clasp on my watch fixed I came across this sign. I remember when I was your age the Shake N' Bake slogan was "And I helped".
9:30pm: The Chompinator taking on the dental dinosaur. Steggy never wins.
11:00pm: Playing a video game with Steve. It's not World of Warcraft; we're not that nerdy.
12:23am: Bedtime. Time to work off the insomnia...
12:45am:...with another video game that's so dull it puts me to sleep. I was too lazy to get out of bed to find the remote for the TV so I had to settle for this to bore me to sleep.
BONUS #1: Holiday Inn now offers people to warm up your bed for you. Chompy is suing for patent infringement since she's been doing that for ten years.
BONUS #2: Video of Chompy:
Comments: 6
Thursday: January 07, 2010 - Off to New Zealand
So long, suckers. Steve and I are off to New Zealand right now. Our dad dropped us off at the airport bright and early this morning and we have our two carry-on bags. We are in the middle of a blizzard in Chicago so going to another part of the planet where they're having summer is even more awesome now. Think fondly of us as you dig ourselves out of two feet of snow. Ciao dudes!
Comments: 1
6:48: Waking up and starting the last day of school. Yeah, buddy!
7:10am: Innocently running the backup for the sites, little knowing that I'd actually need to use ALL of them in a few hours.
7:15am: Waiting for Chompy to do her bid'ness.
My class posing for last-day-of-school picture day.
8:45am: Headed home to see what exactly is wrong with the site but stopping for a bagel and noticing that a cop has a little shamrock taped to the bottom of his gun in the mean time.
10:30: Headed back to school. Thinking I had everything fixed on the site I stop at Starbucks to indulge the 13 year old boy in me. Sex Rowing.
About to go back home but oh no, locked my keys in my office. Had to go beg for an extra set. Reassuring to know the key to 325 opens every other room.
Gave a final sight-singing exam. I didn't have a calculator on me but I think a 4/16 is an F. Fortunately, Student X did well enough on the prepared singing and sight-rhythm to pass this portion of the final.
3:30pm: After fixing the site for real (why do people always hack it on my 12 of 12 days?) got some lunch at the Kerouacesque Darma Buns. (Get it?)
6:00pm: After even more programming, finally relaxing with some purging of belongings before the move to NH.
7:20pm: I totally screamed when this huge ant came out from an old box. I was able to kill it on my own but Chompy came running as backup just in case.
8:00pm: Celebrating the end of the school year with Chris and Xan at a pizza place that used to be a strip club.
I was asleep by 10pm so the bonus Chompy picture was from this afternoon. Comments: 0
Monday: April 12, 2010 - April 12 of 12
7:40am: Someone taped this wisdom to my office door.
Bringing the array of coffees necessary to caffeinate those who need to be caffeinated.
8:00am: The lectern appears to have a case of the "la la la"s. It's going around apparently.
9:15am: Let the wrangling of semicolons begin.
1pm: Our plates in various stages of completion. The picture doesn't show it but I really felt like I fought the good fight against such healthy food.
Chompy rolling around and looking for attention.
3:00pm: Chris and I (lightly Photoshopped) after an epic point in racquetball. He annihilated me.
4:30pm: Doing my errands.
4:45pm: A lesser man might fear you judge him for eating McDonald's but I have the blood work to prove my cholesterol numbers are awesome. Amazing what exercise can do for you.
5:00pm: Time for a quick nap with Chompalatapus before I go back to wrangling semicolons.
9:30pm: Food break at Chipotle. It'll be nice to live closer to civilization soon.
10:30pm: Making my flights for Tallahassee. I feel like it's been years since I've been back there probably due to the fact it's been years since I've been back there.
12:11am: All the semicolons have been wrangled, even if it took 2800 lines to do it. Nothing says "Ahhhh" quite like } #master. Comments: 4
Friday: February 12, 2010 - February 12 of 12
6:10am (or 6:11): My arsenal of alarm clocks. Each alarm clock has a separate purpose. The gray one projects the time above my bed so even though I'm blind without my contacts in I can still read the numbers. The big one with the green numbers is the last resort set for ten minutes after the rest and wakes the dead. The black one in the back goes off first and plays something nice and soothing to starting waking me up. And my phone goes off every ten minutes with the "alarm" sound because nothing wakes you up quite like a heart attack.
7:00am: Suited up and ready to be Mike.edu for an hour. Some rogue curls look like horns but whatever. It's a special day in class...
8:40: Chris and I performing 1979 by the Smashing Pumpkins. We face the attitude daily that what we teach has nothing to do with "today's music" so sometimes it's good just to smack the students back into submission with a transcription and performance that illustrates, oh, everything you're talking about in class. Boom. (Video soon!)
10:00 All that smacking-down needs some breakfast from Einstein's.
10:15: Driving back home with Chompy in the back seat. I have to pick her up to get her out of the car which sucks more than you might think. There's my FSU phone case that Chris got me for Christmas. Go State!
10:30: Mike.com has a new arch-enemy at work whose netspeak reminds of me Alex. I know it's not Alex because there was no note saying "Dude--chess?" This is actually out of order since that came about at like 6pm but whatever.
4:00pm: Taking myself out for a nice CFA lunch.
After dropping off my NZ picture to be framed and getting the clasp on my watch fixed I came across this sign. I remember when I was your age the Shake N' Bake slogan was "And I helped".
9:30pm: The Chompinator taking on the dental dinosaur. Steggy never wins.
11:00pm: Playing a video game with Steve. It's not World of Warcraft; we're not that nerdy.
12:23am: Bedtime. Time to work off the insomnia...
12:45am:...with another video game that's so dull it puts me to sleep. I was too lazy to get out of bed to find the remote for the TV so I had to settle for this to bore me to sleep.
BONUS #1: Holiday Inn now offers people to warm up your bed for you. Chompy is suing for patent infringement since she's been doing that for ten years.
BONUS #2: Video of Chompy:
Comments: 6
Thursday: January 07, 2010 - Off to New Zealand
So long, suckers. Steve and I are off to New Zealand right now. Our dad dropped us off at the airport bright and early this morning and we have our two carry-on bags. We are in the middle of a blizzard in Chicago so going to another part of the planet where they're having summer is even more awesome now. Think fondly of us as you dig ourselves out of two feet of snow. Ciao dudes!
Comments: 1
Good Things Take Time...
2 days until FSU Football (2010)
Random Picture...
There was no dock in Haiti so these are the little tender boats we took to get to and from the island.
There was no dock in Haiti so these are the little tender boats we took to get to and from the island.
Time Machine:
09-02-2009
· 09-02-2008
· 09-02-2007
· 09-02-2006
09-02-2009: I think I have the swine flu. I think I caught it during the Counting Crows concert then brought it back. I took the liberty of passing it along to 100+ college students in the hopes of teaching them a valuable history lesson about settlers and smallpox blankets (right Steve?) I actually do feel a little bit better today but I've also slept away the gross majority of the past three days. Tomorrow I have to go back to school and I can't call in sick so by 10am I'll know how bad I have it depending on how many students I inadvertently killed on Wednesday.
Football starts tonight. Thank God. Too bad I'll be asleep and have to miss the first two games. On Monday Tim and Chris are going to come over to watch FSU whomp Miami. Back to bed.09-02-2008: Ok, seriously, we're playing MarioKart tonight at 8pm. SERIOUSLY.
I got sick last night around 10pm for no reason. Just a regular cold but it came out of nowhere and by the time I woke around 2:30pm this afternoon it had almost totally gone away. Weird. I ordered ESPN GamePlan yesterday so now I can watch up to six college football games at once. This is grossly unnecessary but really, few things in life are really all that necessary. The Cubs can't clinch a playoff spot fast enough--my big TV awaits!
I also picked up Ab last night and she and Chompy covered my bed in dirt after running around in the clay before coming in. Speaking of clay, I read that some people crave eating clay while pregnant. Weirdy. Since I'm phoning in today's entry, here's a video that's worth the watch (with FSU alum Richard Simmons no less).
I took the day off blogging but only because I was thinking of you.09-02-2006: After laboring in coal-mine like conditions for the past 11 months I was pleased to get Labor Day off. Over the weekend the only major thing I "accomplished" was buying a new TV for my office. I got it at Home Depot of all places but I wanted a 15" LCD and didn't want to spend $350 at Best Buy for a crap-brand when I could spend $250 at Home Depot for a Magnavox. The TV it replaced did not change channels or allow you to adjust the volume more than once a week. Usually each Sunday I'd decide what channel and volume to watch for the week and then hate my decision to choose Lifetime (hey, Fraiser was on) on near-mute. The new TV is nice and it looks good next to my two flat-screen monitors. Booyah.
Football starts tonight. Thank God. Too bad I'll be asleep and have to miss the first two games. On Monday Tim and Chris are going to come over to watch FSU whomp Miami. Back to bed.09-02-2008: Ok, seriously, we're playing MarioKart tonight at 8pm. SERIOUSLY.
I got sick last night around 10pm for no reason. Just a regular cold but it came out of nowhere and by the time I woke around 2:30pm this afternoon it had almost totally gone away. Weird. I ordered ESPN GamePlan yesterday so now I can watch up to six college football games at once. This is grossly unnecessary but really, few things in life are really all that necessary. The Cubs can't clinch a playoff spot fast enough--my big TV awaits!
I also picked up Ab last night and she and Chompy covered my bed in dirt after running around in the clay before coming in. Speaking of clay, I read that some people crave eating clay while pregnant. Weirdy. Since I'm phoning in today's entry, here's a video that's worth the watch (with FSU alum Richard Simmons no less).
I took the day off blogging but only because I was thinking of you.09-02-2006: After laboring in coal-mine like conditions for the past 11 months I was pleased to get Labor Day off. Over the weekend the only major thing I "accomplished" was buying a new TV for my office. I got it at Home Depot of all places but I wanted a 15" LCD and didn't want to spend $350 at Best Buy for a crap-brand when I could spend $250 at Home Depot for a Magnavox. The TV it replaced did not change channels or allow you to adjust the volume more than once a week. Usually each Sunday I'd decide what channel and volume to watch for the week and then hate my decision to choose Lifetime (hey, Fraiser was on) on near-mute. The new TV is nice and it looks good next to my two flat-screen monitors. Booyah.