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Dave Goes "All Out" for Halloween
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While I generally do not partake in costume-wearing at work, I didn't want a repeat of this epic failure and so when Liz K. told me to ...
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I Guess I'll Ask Joe Rogan . . .
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I'm getting older, and I like to play sports, so the question is: should I start ingesting creatine?
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No Joy in Dave-ville
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This morning, while playing basketball, I took an elbow under the right side of my ribcage (from a "kid" I taught in 1996) and I t...
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Self-Checkout: Is It SUPPOSED to be Ironic?
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Today, I scanned a full cart of groceries through the "self-checkout" register at Stop & Shop, and I only needed help from a h...
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Dave Survives a Normal Amount of Weekend Events
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Four social events in one weekend, which is not my style, especially after. along week of school and parent/teacher conferences . . . too ma...
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Coneheads Are Not Funny
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Our dog Lola survived her bladder stone surgery and hopefully, this will solve her urinary tract issues, but she's rather despondent now...
The Horror? The Horror!
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New episode of We Defy Augury-- " The Horror? The Horror!" . . . this one contains thoughts (loosely) inspired by three Paul T...
THIS Is The Person Responsible For My Child's Education?
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It's the second day of parent/teacher conferences and I'm sitting here waiting for some parents to arrive and my room is hot and I...
It's Not Easy Seeing Brown
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My nose is dry, my lips are cracked, and this long streak of unseasonably dry, hot weather has made me realize that New Mexico might be a ni...
Life Is Too Short to Look Both Ways When You Cross?
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Last week, while I was driving to work, I saw a dead deer on the side of the road and that deer carcass projected the message that life is s...
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More Adventures in Education (and Growing Old)
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Last week, in my senior English classes, we read the last page of Joan Didion's masterpiece about the counterculture in San Francisco in...
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Dave Dreams of Sophomores Past
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I recently heard the phrase "row forward looking back" as a metaphorical attitude for heading into the unknown-- and that's ho...
Useless Podcast Trivia
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The largest banana port in the United States is in Wilmington, Delaware and once they arrive there, the bananas are loaded into gigantic ri...
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Bring da Noize
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I was glad to see the back of our old ironing board-- which hung on a hook, folded flat, on the back of our bedroom door-- because whenever ...
Typical Tuesday Butt-kicking
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Tuesdays are tough-- I dragged myself out of bed for Tuesday AM basketball-- now that our school doesn't allow non-district employees to...
Go To Hell (Novelistically)
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If you want to read a totally fucked up book about a disgraced knight trying to protect a sanctified child in the bleakest of settings-- pla...
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Old Friends, OLD Friends
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I caught up with some old friends this weekend-- the operative word being old-- but we managed to stay up until 1 AM Friday night, regaling ...
Think It Off, Think It Off
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I'd like to lose ten pounds (but I don't want to alter my eating habits, alcohol consumption, or exercise routine).
The Students Take ONE of My Suggestions
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This morning I had to proctor the PSAT for my sophomore honors class-- the test itself, after the usual technological and logistical shitsho...
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The Coffee Is Coming From Inside the Cup!
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One of the most satisfying moments of Tuesday morning 6:30 AM basketball-- especially after a miserable shooting performance-- is drinking t...
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