A bunch of us went to laser tag last night, about 30 or so. all teachers college kids, which we in chorus told the Marshal in the prep chamber. We played three games, each time they did an introduction to the game and an overview of the rules. The first time he made a small faux pas, and Jeff corrected him. The guy said "what, are you a teacher?" and Jeff said "actually, yes."
"you look like one too" the guy replied in reference to the shirt and tie he was, like a few others, including myself, were wearing. I had got a text earlier that day: "you better suit up".
The suit turned out to be a bad choice because A) it gets really hot inside the vest we wear while running through a maze full tilt for fifteen minutes. I was sweating buckets through my blue and white striped shirt, which was problem B) because, unbeknownst to me, laser quest arenas are lit with black lights and I stuck out like a florescent sore thumb.
The second time through the Marshal made a comment about how we weren't paying attention and asked where the teacher was from before and if he could help out. The Marshal was knocked back by the booming "we all are" that we responded with.
In the cafe today we all reminisced about the ambushes and misshapes from the night before, and the injuries that showed up this morning when we tried to get out of bed.
Friday, January 28
Monday, January 17
iMail
Mom,
my mail won't work, but mostly I hadn't thought of a subject heading yet and that was the first thing that came to mind. I haven't been bothered too much by it to look further into fixing it because messages still come to my phone and logging on to the web version is just fine.
it stays open all the time though, and that bothers me a bit. when i alt-tab it's always there ... staring at me .. mocking me ...
WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME iMAIL?
mostly I spent today planning escape and bus routes. in art (which reminds me that i have to add it to my todo list) we drew stone henge. how we did it is just as mysterious as the building of the real structure so I won't be able to divulge any more details about it in this message. I also had another class, it was math and we learned about protractors.
where the hell was that a month ago?
it makes total sense now and i was going about it all wrong. hopefully those kids recover and learn from their grade 6 teacher how those half circle things work (actually, they didn't call them half circle things at all. i consider that a victory for me).
Then we had basketball and lost, but the team did alright. I would rather have time with them at practice then all this time at games. I see a ton of things we could work on and not being there hurts. I'm sure they wonder what my role is too.
right now i'm the guy that shows up to the games and tells them to do things that don't make sense.
I am smiling. I don't know if that's evident in what I've written, but I am. Because at the end of the day I did a bunch of things that I like doing .. including catching the right buses every time.
things are turning up Murray.
--b
my mail won't work, but mostly I hadn't thought of a subject heading yet and that was the first thing that came to mind. I haven't been bothered too much by it to look further into fixing it because messages still come to my phone and logging on to the web version is just fine.
it stays open all the time though, and that bothers me a bit. when i alt-tab it's always there ... staring at me .. mocking me ...
WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME iMAIL?
mostly I spent today planning escape and bus routes. in art (which reminds me that i have to add it to my todo list) we drew stone henge. how we did it is just as mysterious as the building of the real structure so I won't be able to divulge any more details about it in this message. I also had another class, it was math and we learned about protractors.
where the hell was that a month ago?
it makes total sense now and i was going about it all wrong. hopefully those kids recover and learn from their grade 6 teacher how those half circle things work (actually, they didn't call them half circle things at all. i consider that a victory for me).
Then we had basketball and lost, but the team did alright. I would rather have time with them at practice then all this time at games. I see a ton of things we could work on and not being there hurts. I'm sure they wonder what my role is too.
right now i'm the guy that shows up to the games and tells them to do things that don't make sense.
I am smiling. I don't know if that's evident in what I've written, but I am. Because at the end of the day I did a bunch of things that I like doing .. including catching the right buses every time.
things are turning up Murray.
--b
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