Consider these topics blogged:
Below is a fake Annotated Listing of Blogs composed in the Last Week by yours truly:
1. Great Graduation Gifts (this blog never occurred - it was big, funny, rather elastic, and now moot mostly. IN SUM: Best College Grad Gift is Lifetime Membership to School's Alumni Association or Union (like UW-Madison - only $55 to join the union while still recent, jumps to $135 then to $250 depending on how long you wait. Lets you drink ad infinitum in the union, go to concerts, stay at Memorial Union, etc)
2. A Complete Trip: I went to Chicago for two days to teach green green green, and came back refreshed and motivated by the potential of 3rd graders to participate in curriculum design, and for me to make more of community connections in schools. Highlights: waking up and having no idea where I was...no one needing a thing from me...I took the el before fully awake, remembered proximity of platform to track drop...enjoyed coffee and Chicagoans before onslaught of flip-flop Docker dads and grouchy skinny soy latte moms with killer strollers and blobby children. I was there sans kids as a singleton, and it was uniquely private and productive. Funny how that happens.
3. The Teacher Gift Phenomenon: it happened already and Henry is only 4. I'm not at liberty to discuss this one for fear of social repercussions. Might go down on my permanent record. I'm sure you understand. Suffice it to say that, teachers are people too, and have the same closet space as the rest of us.
4. Look, Smell and Feel SHS on the last days of school. Even though I live here, I can't go back in time. What I can do is convey the smell and feel of the school for you! Any places you want me to photograph or smell for you? I will write this blog June 1.
See you 'round the Village!
