| | Long time, no updates. The kids don't look much different from my profile pic. The thing about blogging is that I usually have a lot of things going on that I think are interesting, but they are interesting to me. Example?
I had jury duty a day this week and last week. I didn't get a rape or murder case, but one of the cases did involve drug dealing (probably), and I was interested enough in both of them. I was even the jury foreman on the last case. The deliberations in these cases involve a lot of fussing, yelling and screaming (I'm pretty Zen myself, though) - interesting to me at the time, but I couldn't recount it here if I tried. In the sentencing phase, I figured out pretty quickly that I'm not much of a mercy person.
btw, jury duty is the major catch of registering to vote. Don't do it, kids. It's a trap!
When I last posted, I listed what I thought were plenty of albums to digest. I've got more now, I'm slower, and I'm at least moderately interested in listening to all of them:
Digesting
The Devil, You + Me, The Notwist
Modern Guilt, Beck
Untitled, Nas
Apple Tree, Katie Herzig
The Sleeping House, Cool Hand Luke
Exit Strategy for the Soul, Ron Sexsmith
Stop, Drop, and Roll!!!, Foxboro Hot Tubs
Dwell, The Envy Corps
Welcome to the Night Sky, Wintersleep
One of the Boys, Katy Perry
Snowflake Midnight, Mercury Rev
Partie Traumatic, Black Kids
Thing of the Past, Vetiver
Closer EP, Jars of Clay
Life...The Best Game In Town, Harvey Milk
Laulu Laakson Kukista, Paavoharju
Revelation, Third Day
22 Dreams, Paul Weller
Deathconsciousness, Have A Nice Life
New Surrender, Anberlin
You & Me, The Walkmen
Skeletal Lamping, Of Montreal
In Ear Park, Department of Eagles
Where You Go I Go Too, Lindstrøm
Don't Stop, Annie
Only By the Night, Kings of Leon
Los Angeles, Flying Lotus
Lightbulbs, Fujiya & Miyagi
Missiles, The Dears
Offend Maggie, Deerhoof
To Survive, Joan as Police Woman
Way To Normal, Ben Folds
Dig Out Your Soul, Oasis
Tell-Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8, Bob Dylan
Intimacy, Bloc Party
They Shoot, We Score, Yo La Tengo
The Clash: Live at Shea Stadium, The Clash
Maelstrom From Drift, Lee Ranaldo
Vivian Girls, Vivian Girls
Soft Airplane, Chad VanGaalen
Yikes!
In other music news, the new TV on the Radio is my first 10.0 I've given since Sufjan's Illinois album. I thought a while, and I really didn't see any reason not to. It seamlessly marries so many elements, and it's artistically very credible. All that without losing a beat in the fun department.
At school, I'm not teaching Trigonometry this year, and it's my favorite class to teach, so I'm a little bummed out over that. Most of the day, I don't feel any real passion for the material, and I think some of that is bound to be projected to the students, which is sad. I do like team teaching my Algebra I class with a special education teacher, though.
I was also banned from one of my regular blog haunts, but I really can't do anything about someone else's persecution complex. He'll come around or he won't, so *shrugs*.
That's all really.
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