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I've cultivated a very lazy response pattern so that I can opt out of text convos at any time. I very rarely, if ever, respond right away. That way, when people say something I don't want to respond to, it doesn't seem odd because I never respond right away anyway. Texting and IM'ing and Facebook / Twitter have made people really weird. I barely even say hi to my friend when I see them in person because we've been talking for years continuously. You just kinda change the method of the conversation, but it never ends so there's no need to do the whole formal hello / goodbye thing.

The 8-3 thing bugs me more than anything. My school day's required hours are 8-3:30, but I'd say 80% of the teachers are there by 7:30. On top of that, most have other activities. Going down my hallway: -one does NHS -the next does Model UN and coaches the rifle team (it is paid, but that adds an extra 90 minutes to the work day), -I coach hockey (paid, but it works out to about $3 an hour and is often before school) and coach club lacrosse which is unpaid -the next teacher coaches lacrosse for free and used to coach football (which works out to about $2 an hour, adds 2 hours to every day plus most of their Saturdays) -the next is department head, does Model UN -the next is our "slacker" who goes bell to bell -the next is cheerleading coach (paid, but added hours + saturdays) and class advisor -the next is a class advisor -the next does Mock Trial -edit: forgot one, baseball and basketball coach -also forgot another that I don't socialize with much.. I *think* she's an advisor for something like a class or NHS but I don't know for sure. On top of that, teachers are expected to have a presence outside the school. We're encouraged to show up to the football game, or the volleyball game, or the musical, or whatever it is just so that our students know (or think, at least) we care.

I'm starting to get pretty good at NHL. Not dominating (keep in mind I'm plaiyng on All-Star or whatever the highest setting is), but I haven't lost by more than a goal lately and have been winning quite a bit.

Being a Bills fan, I will never NOT take pleasure in a Cowboys loss or collapse, but nothing gets me more pissed off than anything Tom Brady.

This is apparently my 7th season of fantasy football, which shocked me. I thought I was at 4. I suck, really bad. I got drunk at a bar instead of drafting (forgot about it) so my team this year blows. Both quarterbacks have a bye this week, as does my punter, a WR, my backup TE, and then on top of all that 3 RBs are hurt. It's a fuckin joke. I don't want to even bother setting my week 5 roster, I just want to fast forward to week 6. I finished a regular season in 1st place once but got knocked out when someone had a fluke game against me in the playoffs. I've finished terribly in all the other seasons. I'm 2-2 now, going to fall to 2-3 next week.

Ahahahaha Tony Romo is so fuckin bad. I was loving his 4th pick, but he just gave up #5!

They're coming to Buffalo but I have a work meeting and practice that night. I should probably skip practice and get there.

Do people really get jobs through LinkedIn? I don't know anything about it.

+ Team I coach went to Cleveland and won the tournament + 29 goals for, 2 goals against in 5 games. (11 GF were in one game)

This would be sweet if I didn't already own them all. My mom used to be a huge Beatles fan. I have every album they put out plus most of the solo work.

+ My team won 1-0 over a team that beat us 3-0 a few weeks ago in our first game. - One of our players got rocked and left the game in the 3rd period. + We're going to Cleveland tomorrow for a tournament. + We're pretty solid shots to win.

I'm about to smash NHL13. It's ridiculous. I was up 4-0 after the first period, then the computer decided it wanted to win because the Sharks were on a 5 game win streak, so obviously they're supposed to be hot. I lost 7 to fuckin 4. Spin-around keep-in-the-zone shots were going in. Pucks were bouncing straight up and dropping behind my goalie. I don't mind if I lose, but in such cheater fashion is beyond irritating.

I watched it last night, now I'm watching ESPN just dissect it and blast it from EVERY angle. It's such a trainwreck, the whole debacle. If I'm a real ref, I'm going to sleep knowing I'm about to win the lockout.

Speaking of someone loving seeing Brady get hit, so do I. I can't stand him. Yesterday he slid, but as he decided to go down, the defender also went to dive on him. Tommy landed about .02 seconds before the guy fell on him, and IMMEDIATELY, like the giant fucking pussy that he is, rolled over with all the fake tears he could muster and started crying like a baby for the flag, which the refs obviously threw because poor Tommy had someone else make contact with him. Fuck him. I hope the Bills paralyze him this week. Not really, but I wouldn't be disappointed if he left the game.

That's a great post. I mentioned one time here on the board that Apple doesn't sell products, they sell an image. The above post is a better way of stating that. It's the hype and the "cool" factor that gets people nerding out about their new phones, not the phone itself.

+ I started a very simple and easy workout dealy at home. It's no p90x because I don't think I care THAT much, but it's a simple push-up and sit-up progression, then I added a very easy light free-weight workout for more core workout with some lower leg. It takes all of about 15 minutes 3 times a week. - My wrists are fuuuuucked up. They hurt like a mother after push-ups and they click. I feel like 20 years of slapshots don't help.

New album being Food & Liquor 2? Did it leak?

Cocktease!

None of this mental stuff like getting sick or getting worms has any affect on me. I could eat a hamburger in the middle of a slaughter house while someone read The Jungle to me. I just don't get phased by it.

Whew! I have been half-assed chasing a 22 year old girl that is my friend's gf's best friend. This has been going on for a month or so, and it's been progressing, and last night we had a practice impregnation session which was superb. We're going to hang out a bit today at some point but she is student teaching and if you haven't been through that yourself, it's the most exhausting thing ever. Twelve weeks of "I hope this lesson is perfect because every second is being supervised, rated, and judged!" all while paying to work a full time job and then working a normal job on the side.

I thought about getting tickets to Hamilton, but... too lazy and poor.

NHL13: I learned how to score, or got really lucky a lot today. Won 2 games and blew one badly that I should've won, scoring 13 goals in those three games.

I fuckin BLOW at NHL13. It's so hard! I could probably turn it off the hardest setting, but I hate just dominating. I haven't won a game yet.. went 0-3-1 in preseason and then am 0-4-0 in the regular season.

Reading this: I love it.

Yea, they quit this fool-around pretending-to-be-legit thing and just suck right out of the gate, getting no one's hopes up. It's better for our health here in WNY.