Day: July 13, 2012

Caveat: let the gray in

Background Noise / Banalities & Journaling / My Photos

I love those gray, overcast, almost-gonna-rain mornings. I'm weird, I know. Perhaps it was because of those formative years in Humboldt? Certainly, those types of mornings were common enough. But here in suburban Seoul, they tend to be about 20 degrees F warmer than Humboldt mornings of similar feel. So actually they remind me more of Minneapolis summer weather than Humboldt weather.

I enjoy the weather. I fling my windows wide and let the gray in.

Meanwhile… a completely random picture from the archive: Santa Monica, 1994. Jeffrey (my stepson), Andrew (my younger brother) and I built this very immense sand castle. Here is a picture of that castle. Not-so-gray weather, but the beach wasn't hot that day, as I recall.

1994_SantaMonicaCACastle01

What I'm listening to right now.

Olivia Newton-John with ELO, "Magic." From the soundtrack for the movie Xanadu. Who ever actually saw that movie? I don't think I did.

Caveat: Pointlessness

Background Noise / Banalities & Journaling / The Wonders of Work

I keep track of points for students with hatchmarks on the whiteboard by students' names. When they misbehave in some disruptive fashion, I'll delete points, too, by quickly erasing a point from beside a student's name without further comment.

Today, a student did a surprising thing: he jumped up, did a little dance, then immediately moved to the whiteboard and deducted his own misbehavior point. I stared at him, dumbfounded for a moment. "Why did you do that?" I asked.

He just grinned. "Welll.. that was pointless," I muttered under my breath.

Oh well. Kids are interesting.

What I'm listening to right now.

Psychedelic Furs, "Heaven." Yes, I came of age in the 80s. How'd you guess?

[Daily log: walking, 5 km]

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