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Subject matters clash!

All in a Day's Work
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Teaching today and something stuck me. In fact, about 3 things strike me every day I teach, but I tend to forget them. This one I still remember because it is most recent.

Kid: Can you help us on this question?

Me: Sure! <reads it over. It is a word problem involving velocity, time it took, and asks for how long the distance was>. Okay, so, you use this equation. V=D/T. Do you guys know your algebra yet?

Kid: This is science.

Me: ….uh…..okay but, do you know your algebra? What math are you taking right now?

Kid: But this is science. It’s from science class. We’re learning about velocity.

Me: ….right….but…this is math. You have to know the math to do this problem. We’re using algebra to find the missing variable, D, the distance the train traveled.

Kid: ….oooh……           …

Yeah…I’m not sure why the kid thought that you didn’t need to know math for a science question.

Whelps

All in a Day's Work, Gaming, The Day Events, World of Warcraft
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You know how people say “well….” and then people say “wellps….” Well, I just realized how much “wellps” sounds like “whelps” and instantly thought of Onyxia. If there’s a place where you fear whelps the most, or being punted into the whelp room, it’s Onyxia. Though it was pretty frightening doing UBRS the first few times. And the supression room in BWL is kind of annoying. Man, I almost forgot what BWL’s name was. It’s been thaaaaaat long.

Whelps, I’ve been at work again at the schools. So far no cute or funny stories. I went to a high school that I hadn’t been to last year, and saw some of my eighth graders that had gone up to ninth grade. They would be like, “Hey! I know you!” And the teachers are always have a thankful look when I walk in the room and would be like “omg thank goodness you are here. We’ve been waiting for you!” Maybe all teachers should get a tutor. Or just get paid more.

It’s raining today. Sporadically. I love going to schools when it rains. Rain just makes everything more interesting.

Angels vs Yankees

All in a Day's Work, The Day Events
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8-8-08 (Day of the Olympics which I haven’t watched the opening of)

Is pretty pointless. It’s a sea of red out there.

The highlight was just being able to be close to them and think “wow…they are really here.”

This is a crop. I was taking a picture of who I thought was a-rod, zoomed in at 5x, but I think it was actually Betemit. Good thing he was at the very right of my picture and my picture size was at 8 megapixels or this would have been a tiny tiny blur.

He was warming up, and I wasn’t really allowed down there. He started walking toward the people hanging out right next to the field. You could feel the tension and excitement as he got closer, and closer…and this lady next to me practically had a heart attack. She was like “aahhHhHh!” before she caught herself and realized that she wasn’t just screaming in her head. And then, to make matters worse, he took off his helmet and flashed a smile. Game over. My camera was out. (and taking the wrong picture but I don’t really want to talk about that anymore).

It’s my Damon! He looks hug-able right? Like a comforting uncle or something. He’s so-so for fantasy baseball but I like him anyway.

“Hey guys, don’t fall asleep!”

“Hey, do you want to trade places with me?”

Whoa lots of people

Jeter was booed pretty badly. Louder than A-rod, except with Mr. Rodriguez, you also got throngs of high pitched shrieks from the ladies.

This is an action shot, although he didn’t get much action.

At least the fireworks are good. They chose Beach Boys music this night.

I didn’t have a tripod. I used my leg.

The fireworks went on for about….7-10 minutes?

Sparkly!

Paper craft wallet Part I

All in a Day's Work, Droolworthy, The Day Events, uhh...random!
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I’ve been wanting to get a new wallet lately. My wallet is very…cute…and it’s a little more bulky than I like it to be. I always get lots of coins and I need a bigger coin purse in my wallet, unless I want to get a separate little purse just for that…which I don’t really want to.

So after shopping at many stores and department stores, I found nice ones but there were not perfect enough. Either too old style looking, or had something missing that I needed…had one good thing but a bad thing also…

I’m kind of picky because I want a nice wallet, not just some wallet I can use.

So…I decided I’m going to try to make my own. <: x

This is my mock-up. I have tons of ideas. You know what it’s almost like? It’s like adding on plug-ins to something that works great, but could use a little more.

The front. Not too big. I’ll add a clasp later on. I’m thinking envelope style!

You can see some notes here. The window will be a clear plastic. The sides of the credit card part are going to be large elastic cloth, not regular cloth. That way, the material will expand to the number of credit cards it contains. The base is also removable if I don’t need that many cards a certain night and I want to reduce the bulk.

This is something I’ve always wanted to make for myself. I’ve seen this in a few special wallets, and more recently in the Betsey Johnson wallets. So much space! The closure will be the button and string kind, like those kinds folders. You can see the drawing on the previous picture. Maybe fake button and string (with actual velcro or snap closure), depending how fastened it will stay. I’m going to have to experiment with it, but that detailing is going to be super cute. I haven’t seen it on any wallets (and maybe there is a reason for it @_@).

And the cash.

I’m so poor!

Yeah…I’ll probably keep looking at it…adding a strap here, attachable panel using zipper sounds interesting right? …or…usb thumb drive pocket…

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