Last Saturday morning at the ungodly hour of 4am, I was smote by a Charley horse on my way to the bathroom. My leg muscle betrayed me–seizing and cramping until I literally crumbled to a heap on the floor, wishing for death. I tried to employ the technique someone once told me about–flexing my toes [...]
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(Charley) Horsing Around
Posted in life, tagged charley horse, charley horses are so painful, charlie horse, muscle spasms, painful leg cramp, shoot me on April 22, 2010 | 20 Comments »
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Posted in life, tagged a-rod, baseball, derek jeter, how do you get on the screen at a baseball game, jorge posada, jumbo tron, life, New York, picture of seats at yankee stadium, pictures of Yankee Stadium, school, seats at yankee stadium, sports, teaching, texas rangers, work, Yankees, yankees game on April 18, 2010 | 23 Comments »
A few weeks ago, a student and I were talking about the Yankees–she’s also a big fan–and how much we love going to the games. One thing led to another and that’s how I found myself driving into the Bronx to meet up with a group of students for an unofficial class trip today. After [...]
Practice Makes Perfect
Posted in life, tagged board games, bomb squads, Curly Wurly Gurly, evil games of the 80s, game where pieces fly out at you, games, games that scare kids, hateful games, horrible games, i was a doofus as a child (and adult), life, Milton Bradley, Perfection, yellow pieces on April 13, 2010 | 12 Comments »
My contemporaries will have no trouble identifying this image and may instinctively recoil in fear. This ancient torture device of the 1980s was marketed as a game of skill called Perfection. The object? To put all 25 shaped pieces into place before time ran out. To hinder aid the player, a 60-second timer loudly ticked [...]
I Ain’t Missin’ You At All
Posted in life, tagged Blogs, friends, good blogs, i miss blogging, i'm a sucky blogger, life, old posts, polls, should i stop blogging, visit my blog, vote on April 11, 2010 | 18 Comments »
I’m lying! I miss all of my CWG blogging friends. Seriously, I just spent an hour looking at old posts and comments–it’s Bouncer’s fault because she linked a post to an old post of mine–and I got all misty just remembering the halcyon blogging days of writing faithfully, commenting religiously, and inciting trouble daily. Now [...]
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