September 2010

Two honors.

September 27, 2010

Today I was the proud recipient of two honors: 1. My Paxon colleagues voted me Teacher of the Year. Nominations were made at the last faculty meeting; voting was done in last week’s department meetings; the principal made the announcement today. I am grateful for the honor. Now I get to participate in the district-level [...]

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Why I am not an economist.

September 20, 2010

In the previous post’s comments, someone asked, “Why did you chose teaching high school over a career in economics?” Well, that’s a story. I actually did dabble in economics a long time ago. I used to work the west coast econ circuit, hustling Marxists and Keynesians for a few hundred bucks here and there. It [...]

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The seminar.

September 19, 2010

To recap: Turns out that someone at the district office was looking at our AP United States History pass rates and thought it might be a good idea if we could talk to some of the newer teachers in the district about teaching the course. They want to set up a one-day seminar some time [...]

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Alas.

September 18, 2010

Recently I was sitting in one of the swivel chairs at my favorite-by-default barber shop. Someone other than Usual Guy stepped up to cut my hair, which meant that instead of talking, I was going to be busy concentrating on holding still and using telepathy to get the new guy not to screw up. A [...]

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Huzzah!

September 11, 2010

Congratulations to my dear friends, fellow footballers and trivia-teammates C and Ear33wig on the birth of their half-American, half-Australian daughters yesterday, September 10th! On their parents’ behalf, I hereby beseech the Lord to make them soccer or tennis players and not cheerleaders. In the spirit of past birth announcements, and in the absence of indisputable [...]

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What tipped you off?

September 8, 2010

Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic recently had the high honor of interviewing Fidel Castro, tin-pot dictator emeritus of Cuba. He writes: I asked him if he believed the Cuban model was still something worth exporting. “The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore,” he said. This struck me as the mother of all Emily [...]

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Five Years!

September 1, 2010

Today is the fifth anniversary of my very first journal entry. When I first started blogging, I dreamt of being that daring, edgy writer whose ideas would grab a tragically dull world by its lapels, punch it in the face and knee it in the groin. I was going to change everything. In commemoration, here’s [...]

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