Hobbies in the Lobby!

Well, little evil Hybrid will be starting her third trip around our sun in March and Mrs. Evil Science Teacher has taken me to Hobby Lobby in search for the perfect invitations. I'll let you know if I survive.

UIL Tripping Champions

While I thought I had stumbled onto the District Champions of Face-Plants at Smyer I had no idea that right down the street ... in my own home town ... at my District Arch-Rival's not-so-humble gym (there was a sale on hyphens) ... rests not the District Champion Trippers, but the STATE Champions!  Wow!  Check out these really cool trophies I "stumbled" on during tonight's game. 

1983 District Tripping Champions

Sundown High School

STATE UIL 1983 Face-Plant Champions

Sundown High School

They know how to grow'm talented in Sundown!

What a week or Basketball Friday (finally)

Wow ... what a week. Started really last Friday at the Smyer game. Evil Hybrid just about collapsed with a pretty high fever which culminated in long, restless nights through the weekend. I took a leave of absence from the slave camps work to take the Hybrid to the local medical professional where she was diagnosed as having a Streptococcus pyogenes infection of the pharynx and needs antibiotics. She's better now. Of course now Mrs. Evil Science Teacher and I are sick, but that's the way Strep works. The week is ending at the varsity b-ball game in Sundown. Updates to come.

UPDATE- Coach G must have been in the Secret Service in a past life ... he keeps yelling "GET THE SHOOTER! GET THE SHOOTER!"

UPDATE- Girls lost a great game, WF- 37 SD-41

UPDATE- Boys ... not so much ... WF- 25 SD-61

Basketball Friday

B-Ball time ... in Smyer tonight. JV looking good so far. WF- 35 SM- 21, 3 left in the 3rd.

Coach F is busy focusing on the game ... thinking through various straigies ... debating which way each player should go ... did I mention he was focusing on his Nintindo DS and the game was Lego Indiana Jones ?

UPDATE- JV WON! WF-43 _SM-30
Time for the Varsity Girls

UPDATE- WF- 21 SM- 40 at the half

UPDATE- WF- 36 SM- 58 ... somebody told somebody and I over heard in the bathroom that the ref lost his contact trying to read the rule book before the game.

UPDATE- WF-47 SM-82
You know ... its pretty bad when I can see blatant fouls that are ignored by the 'refs'. Smyer girls can tackel ours, but we can't break the 6' rule or its death by ref

Time for the boys game

UPDATE- WF- 20 something SM- 30 something

This was the best I've seen our boys play against a district team.  Too bad they still lost

On the way out ... I noticed that, not only does Smyer have a pretty talented basketball team and referee training school, but they are District Falling Champions ... didn't know that was a UIL event.

I fear this is the way we are heading.  Apparently, in the great country of France … a dog can be declared clinically depressed.  That’s crazy (pun intended).  This got me thinking, how much money would Mrs. Evil Science Teacher and I spend on our dogs.  One forgets that he went to the bathroom over a span of 2 hours … one is so paranoid that he can’t have another animal standing behind him and heaven forbid touch him … and the third an some sort of nervous tic, she can’t keep her tongue in her mouth!  And don’t get me started on the cats!

Kids are drawing dead animals on the wall (Fossil Record Project) and not complaining … good day so far.  I got in a fight with our printer in the copy room … again.  Coach F laughed to see such a sight … the stupid machine either couldn’t figure out how to print fossils or it did know and was having a bit of fun at my expense … again.  I showed it though.  I spent 15 extra minutes saving each picture, one at a time, copied them all to MS Word and printed them off in my room.  That will teach it.

Basketball Tuesday

Basketball Tuesday again ... this time at home against Seagraves.  I had varsity gate duty which means that I sit at the door and take money from the 10 - 12 people who trickle in late.  But I get paid for it so not a total loss.

Missed the girls game ... heard it was pretty good ... we lost 49 - 48.  

Saw the boys game ... don't remember the score but we pulled it in to within 40 by the end.  Don't think our boys stood a chance ... let's just say "White men can't jump"

LOVED the ref's outfit - didn't know that they still made pants with that much fabric.  Realy not sure how he could run down the court and not cut himself in half via atomic mega wedgie.

Kick'n it at the JH B-Ball game

Blogging live (in the sense that I am alive, not that the blog I live, terrible reception you know) from down in the enemies back, back yard (Sundown's old gym) watch'n Coach F' Jr High boys start a contest that will last the next 6 years.  No pressure coach.

 

UPDATE- End of the 1st- WF 5 - SD 8

UPDATE- End of the 2nd-WF 13 - SD 19

UPDATE- End of the 3rd-WF 16 - SD 28

UPDATE- End of the 4th-WF 24 - SD 41

UPDATE- The fam and I migrated over to the gym Sundown wants people to see to watch our 8^th grade girls play a good, yet unfruitful game

This is a test

This is a test of the emergency blogging system.  This is only a test.  If this was a real emergency, I would be teaching something to someone instead of blogging about not teaching anything to anyone.  This was only a test. 

 

UPDATE- Relax Mom, they are taking a TAKS benchmark and I am “actively” monitoring the situation. 

Situation is:  Half are pretending to work, the other half is asleep.  I actively noticed that for any TEA people reading this.

   
    
 	
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A Nap would be Nice

I just finished my notes for biology for the rest of the week.  Woo hoo!  Now on to the power points.  I hate having a new class prep, with new notes and slide shows - TOUCHDOWN STEELERS! never mind, they called it back - anyway as you can tell I'm taking a break.  I'll have to get back here in a few minutes.

UPDATE- Looks like it is snowing in Pittsburgh

UPDATE- Steelers Touchdown does not count and they lost the catch all together and ruled incomplete ... that's OK, Holmes isn't on my fantasy team anyway.

Evil Mutant Hybrid

Little hybrid and I went shopping at the local Shop-and-Spend where, once she noticed Dad had neither a juice bottle or a Mama, a fit was to be had. The fit was soon resolved when Dad was replaced by Nana and orange extract was bought. Updates to come.

UPDATE- Saw Coach Fortner ... said "Hi"

UPDATE- Went to Beall's for granny clothes for ... well granny.  Then off to home base.

UPDATE- Suprising developments at home.  Evil Hybrid is told she should take a nap ... hybrid responds with expected "I don't wanna nap!" ... Hybrid is told she needs a nap and responds with "where are my jamas?".  Thirty minutes later she's out.  Nice.

Basketball Fridays

Basketball Fridays ... almost like Basketball Tuesdays, but on Friday. Girl JV won 30-29 at Tahoka. Updates later

UPDATE- Girls V ... not so much. Boys turn to throw down ... or up ... whatever

UPDATE- Guys V didn't fair any better than the girls.  Both lost by 30+, Tahoka girls were ranked 16th in the state, the Tahoka guys bought the refs dinner at the concession stand before the game.

Katy loves these games.  She has adopted a few of our cheerleaders as big sisters and loves to cheer with them.  Next week we play Seagraves and I have "gate duty" which means I can't watch the game, but I get paid to sit and take other people's money so it's not that bad.  

My Preliminary Entry

Guess everything had to start somewhere, sometime.  With this preliminary entry, we can set up what this whole thing is suppose to be about.  Nothing I guess.  Probably for venting about "problem" students at my school.  For future reference, all names of students in this blog will be changed to protect the not-so-innocent (them) and the innocent (me).