Lost Voice

It had been a while since I had yelled so much at a game. But the stars aligned and all was right with the world. There were almost no visiting fans sitting near me, save for the four old Canadians. They were quickly dispatched by five-year-olds with noise makers though. I have no idea who would have given those kids the idea to point noisemakers at old people though...

There were even fights galore! And the best part of that is the Lightning players were actually winning the fights, and even knocking a few Senators out cold. Hell, even Chris 'The Turtle' Neil got laid out by the Lightning goalie Smith. For that single act of awesome, I take back almost all the bad things I've said about him lately.

I even got to see my first shootout in person and I was so glad the Lightning actually pulled off the win. All that yelling would have been for nothing if they had lost.

And just for some icing on the cake, there was a family of Toronto fans leaving the game (I swear those guys are everywhere) and they had a small kid with them. The family looked up and saw a pack of sad Senator fans waiting to cross the street and they proceeded to tell their son not to stand so close to the Sens fans. I'm no Toronto fan, but that's great parenting if ever I've seen it in action.

Needless to say, I lost my voice from all the hollering and the yelling, but it was totally worth it.

Now if only the Lightning would have played like this a few weeks ago when it actually mattered...

FREEEEDOM!

According to a third grader, Rosa Parks was the first woman arrested. And she created freedom. Teaching is awesome. The end.

The Second Coming of Awesome

And lo. On the 14th day of this 3rd month, the awesome was created. It was good. It was awesome! But the awesome needed an equal awesome to show the world the true way of being the best. Eight days later, as was foretold, the second coming of awesome occurred. And it was good.

And that, children, is why we celebrate for eight days. For the birth week of awesome is a glorious event.

Frog Sneak Attack

This was found at Target yesterday. I had nothing to do with it, although I wish I had set it up. Makes no sense at all and kind of confuses me.

In other news, a student told me to day that he was trying to be a really good redneck. You have to love those first graders.

Failcat

I told a student the other day that I didn't have to take the FCAT when I was in school because it didn't exist. They got a puzzled look on their face and then asked what the point of school was if there was no FCAT to take at the end of the year. I tried to explain that school used to be about learning, expanding your mind, becoming a well rounded individual, etc. This fell on deaf ears.

It's kind of sad that the education system has gotten to the point where learning to take a test is more important than actually teaching. I know there are proponents of the FCAT that will say that if teachers teach the standards then students will do well on the test. Therein lies the problem. Assessing a student's abilities shouldn't be reduced to bubbling in A, B, C, or D.

Enough of my rant. At least the failcat nonsense is done. At least as far as I'm concerned. On to more important things.

Birthdays, spring break, and the eventual summer vacation that has just begun to peek over the horizon.

Awesome

If someone ever asks you to define the word 'awesome' it would start with a recount of this past week.

New place.
Good friends.
Great times.

Awesome

Sans Chair

Typical guys apartment. Got the big television, video games, and electronics going but no real furniture yet. Oh, and of course the Nerf guns. There have been a few skirmishes already that break down pretty quickly due to lack of any real cover. I'm thinking an ottaman will solve that problem.