April 19th: nasal oppression and suicidal electronics
[ posted by mcdeviltoast ]
Day 215
All the biking around in damp haze and smoke from random people burning stuff has caused me nasal oppression. Mornings are a struggle to breathe as I expel great peridot gobs of muck from my sinuses. Pleasant. It hasn't had me in the best mood.
Went to the hotel for lunch to see to get our order from the day before right. This time, they brought out the chicken sandwiches, but their feet-dragging caused Heather to have to box hers up and speed back to the middle school for a class observation (which turned out to be cancelled). Rose slid a note under my door the day before reading "David, no classes tomorrow because of exams. Come to my office and get your salary." Unexpected day off, huzzah! The weather was perfect for staying indoors and doing laundry, catching up on writing, which I did.
When dark fell, I worked out my lesson plan (swimming etc.) and Heather asked if she could borrow my CD player to do the "All Together Now" lesson. I picked it up and the bottom felt wet. I thought maybe the snow globe near it had broken, but it seemed the wetness was contained within. I opened the battery port and a bunch more fluid spilled out. Uh oh. The batteries had self-combusted from a combination of cheapness and idleness. When I bought it at Best Buy, I had bought an insurance thingy with it, which I rarely do, perhaps I had foreseen this disaster. The trick is now to find that piece of paper in all my stuff when I get back before it expires.
I rode over to the middle school and ate some strange popsicles, watched "12 Monkeys" (why did Brad Pitt not get an Oscar nod?) became horizontally wake-deprived.
All the biking around in damp haze and smoke from random people burning stuff has caused me nasal oppression. Mornings are a struggle to breathe as I expel great peridot gobs of muck from my sinuses. Pleasant. It hasn't had me in the best mood.
Went to the hotel for lunch to see to get our order from the day before right. This time, they brought out the chicken sandwiches, but their feet-dragging caused Heather to have to box hers up and speed back to the middle school for a class observation (which turned out to be cancelled). Rose slid a note under my door the day before reading "David, no classes tomorrow because of exams. Come to my office and get your salary." Unexpected day off, huzzah! The weather was perfect for staying indoors and doing laundry, catching up on writing, which I did.
When dark fell, I worked out my lesson plan (swimming etc.) and Heather asked if she could borrow my CD player to do the "All Together Now" lesson. I picked it up and the bottom felt wet. I thought maybe the snow globe near it had broken, but it seemed the wetness was contained within. I opened the battery port and a bunch more fluid spilled out. Uh oh. The batteries had self-combusted from a combination of cheapness and idleness. When I bought it at Best Buy, I had bought an insurance thingy with it, which I rarely do, perhaps I had foreseen this disaster. The trick is now to find that piece of paper in all my stuff when I get back before it expires.
I rode over to the middle school and ate some strange popsicles, watched "12 Monkeys" (why did Brad Pitt not get an Oscar nod?) became horizontally wake-deprived.
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[ posted by mcdeviltoast @ 4/19/2005 08:52:00 PM ]
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