Jordan Pesta

Jordan Pesta is sitting watching me type this. He's just discovered my blog.

Spit on

I was reading another teacher's website. He was talking about being spit on by a student and you know, I have seen stuff like that. It's sad. It's sad that I know that.

Snow Days and other stuff.

Snow days. Not much you can do about snow days. Some people had school yesterday to make up one of the snow days from last week. We had an additional snow day because the roads were impassable. So we used all three of our snow make up days. I have had to change my personal days because they won't work out the way I intended. I don't know when I will take them. I certainly like to use them in conjunction with a trip to Florida. When it snows, I miss Florida.

American Chopper.
American Chopper has broadcast its last episode. A family is in ruins. What started out as a father and son working together on custom designed motorcycles is now a father and three sons not speaking to each other, all living in huge homes and driving expensive cars, but none happier for it. I look at the Gosselins, Jon and Kate, now divorced as we watched their marriage fall apart before our very eyes, week after week. Why do people want fame and fortune so much that they are willing to sacrifice everything? Sadly, I fear they live to the level of their income while they have it, but once it's gone, they can't afford the lifestyle they have while the show is popular. so they have their momentary fame and fortune but when it's gone, it's gone.

And sadly, the last show had the old man talking about how he overcame alcohol abuse and went to AA meetings and all that stuff, but it's 25 years and it's done. It seemed sad that he had to tell these guys who are on the payroll, his payroll, about how great he was for having beaten his addiction. What are they going to say? He signs their paychecks, so they're going to tell him what a great accomplishment it is.